Early Chicago
Who was Chicago's first permanent non-indigenous resident?
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
True or False: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 raged for three days.
True
Name one genre of music that was born in Chicago
Jazz, Urban Blues, Gospel, or House
True or False: The first ferris wheel was invented for Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair.
True
True or False: Four US presidents have claimed Illinois as their home state.
True; Lincoln, Grant, Reagan and Obama
What did Europeans call the group of about 13 tribes that lived in the Illinois area?
The Illinois "Confederation"
What percentage of US railway freight travels through Chicago?
50%
True or False: Black people that moved to early Chicago were assimilated and welcomed throughout the whole city.
False; Black people were concentrated into small pockets throughout the city, primarily on the South Side
True or False: The Willis Tower is the tallest building in the country.
False, for many years it was the tallest in the world but currently the One World Trade Center in New York is the tallest in the US
Name a Chicago sports team.
Cubs, Bulls, White Sox, Bears, Blackhawks, Red Stars, etc
Where was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable born?
Saint Dominique, Modern day Haiti
Why did Chicagoans lift their streets by 5-8 feet in the 1850s?
To create a sewer system
What neighborhood on Chicago’s south side saw its population expand as a result of the Great Migration?
Bronzeville AKA Black Metropolis
What was the official name of the 1933 worlds’ fair?
A Century of Progress
How many neighborhoods are in Chicago?
77
How many Native Americans still live in Chicago today?
More than 65,000
What happened to the debris of the Great Chicago Fire?
Dumped into Lake Michigan, now the land beneath Grant Park, Millennium Park and the Art Institute of Chicago
What is the name of the oldest independent African American history museum in the country?
The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center
What was the building of the Museum of Science and Industry initially made for?
It was made as part of the 1893 World’s Fair Columbian Exposition and later taken over by the Museum of Science and Industry
What is the population of Chicago?
2.7 million people
Who was Chicagou?
The man Chicago was named after, right hand man of the indigenous Illinois tribes' great chief
Why did Chicagoans reverse the flow of the Chicago River in 1900?
Because sewage was flowing into Lake Michigan and spreading illness, reversing the river made it flow towards the Mississippi instead
Who was Harold Washington?
The first African American mayor of Chicago
What Chicago event started the atomic age?
The first self-sustaining nuclear reaction took place at the University of Chicago
When did Chicago become an official city?
1837