1900
February 1 - The Everleigh Club opens
1902
May 15 - Richard J Daley is born in Bridgeport
1903
April 7 - Edward Dunne elected Mayor
December 31 - Iroquois Theater Fire kills 571 people
1905
December 29 - Charles Tyson Yerkes dies
1907
April 12 - Fred Busse elected Mayor
1911
April 11 - Carter Harrison II elected Mayor for a fifth time
October 24 - World famous Everleigh Club is closed down
1915
April 16 - William H Thompson elected Mayor
July 24 - Steamer Eastland turns over in her pier, killing 1,800
1920
May 11 - Gangster Jim Colosimo is murdered
June 8 - Republican National Convention meets in Chicago
1929
February 14 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1932
June 27-30 - Democratic National Convention meets in Chicago
1933
February 15 - Mayor Anton Cermak shot in Miami
March 6 - Mayor Anton Cermak dies from an assassin's bullet
May 27 - Century of Progress Exposition opens
1934
July 22 - John Dillinger shot dead
1935
April 1 - Edward Kelly officially elected Mayor
1938
November 8 - Bathhouse John Coughlin dies
1940
October 6 - Gov. Henry Horner dies
1942
April 24 - Richard M Daley is born in Chicago
