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riddled them with bullets. Seven
bushes now mark the spot (at TOP 10 CHICAGO RESIDENTS
Clark Street and Dickens Avenue).
1942: First
8
Atom Split
Under the football
stands on the cam pus
of the University
of Chicago, Enrico
Fermi made history.
He supervised the
creation of a primitive
nuclear reactor and Benny Goodman
took the first major 1 Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
step in understanding Chicago’s first non-native settler was an
how to build an African-American trader who set up
Enrico Fermi atomic bomb. camp around 1779.
1955: First McDonald’s
9 2 Jane Addams
This social activist (1860–1935)
Franchise Opens
Ray Kroc, a milkshake mixer founded Hull House social center (see
p97) and won a Nobel Peace Prize.
salesman, changed diets worldwide 3 Carl Sandburg
by convincing Dick and Mac One of Chicago’s nicknames, “City of
McDonald to franchise their the big shoulders,” was penned by this
San Bernadino, California burger author/poet (1878–1967).
stand. The original restaurant in 4 Al Capone
Des Plaines – 15 miles (24 km) west America’s best-known mobster (1899–1947)
of Chicago – is now a museum. was Chicago’s “Public Enemy Number
One” until jailed in 1931 for tax evasion.
2008: Barack Obama
0 5 Ernest Hemingway
Elected President
Chicago had elected its first black Born in Oak Park, this hard-living author
(1899–1961) left the suburb of “wide
mayor, Harold Washington, in 1983, lawns and narrow minds” at age 19.
but a new national barrier was 6 Benny Goodman
vaulted with the 2008 election of Born to Russian-Jewish immigrants,
Illinois senator Barack Obama as jazz great Goodman (1909–1986)
president. Thousands of jubilant earned the title “King of Swing.”
voters gathered at the public rally in 7 Hugh Hefner
Grant Park on election night to Hefner (1926–) is the notorious lothario
celebrate the historic event. and founder of Playboy, whose first
issue sold over 50,000 copies.
8 Curtis Mayfield
Soul musician and social activist
(1942–99), Mayfield had his first hit For
Your Precious Love at the age of 16.
9 Oprah Winfrey
TV’s talk-show darling (1954–) filmed
in Chicago from 1984 to 2011 and has
become an honorary native of the city.
10 Barack Obama
The former US President (1961–) taught
at the Chicago Law School from 1992
to 2004. His residential home is in the
Kenwood neighborhood.
Barack Obama wins the 2008 election

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