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PHOTOS: Northern Lights put on dazzling display across Chicago area
CHICAGO - The magnificent Northern Lights were captured in photos across the Chicago area on Friday night. Check out the photo gallery below to see some of the pictures sent in by FOX 32's viewers.
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Northern Lights to return Saturday across Chicago, suburbs. Here's when to catch the best view
The Chicago area will likely experience another dazzling light show late Saturday as a "very rare" geomagnetic storm supercharges the Northern Lights again. Skies across a large swath of the U.S ...
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Today in Chicago History: The Cubs get lights — and games at night
Vintage Chicago Tribune: How Wrigley Field got lights and why Cubs fans had to wait past 8-8-88 to raise ‘W’ flag The measure, which passed three months after late Mayor Harold Washington ...
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The Brief History of the Ferris Wheel
Eiffel himself proposed an idea: a bigger tower. Merci, mais non. As plans for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago took shape, there was a void where its exclamation point was meant to ...
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World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
Chicago beat out New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. for the privilege of hosting the fair. Like the 1876 Centennial Exposition before it, the Fair provided a showcase for American power ...
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JAPANESE ACTORS IN CHICAGO.; Sent by the Mikado to Play at the Paris Exposition.
Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. CHICAGO, Ill., Oct. 14. -- Kawakami Otojiro, called in English Otto Kawakami, Japan's leading actor ...
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World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
Chicago beat out New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. for the privilege of hosting the fair. Like the 1876 Centennial Exposition before it, the Fair provided a showcase for American power ...