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On April 11, 2023, it was announced that Chicago had been selected to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention. [20] Milwaukee and Chicago are approximately 90 miles apart on the coast of Lake Michigan. This is a highly unusual proximity for two different cities hosting major party conventions in the same year.
The Daily News was Chicago's first penny paper, and the city's most widely read newspaper in the late nineteenth century. [ 2] Victor Lawson bought the Chicago Daily News in 1876 and became its business manager. Stone remained involved as an editor and later bought back an ownership stake, but Lawson took over full ownership again in 1888.
Chicago Fire. season 12. The twelfth season of Chicago Fire, an American drama television series with executive producer Dick Wolf, and producers Derek Haas and Matt Olmstead, was ordered on April 10, 2023, by NBC. [ 1] The season premiered on January 17, 2024. [ 2] The season concluded on May 22, 2024 and contained 13 episodes. [ 3]
In April 2022, nonprofit organization PEN America found that 1,586 book bans targeting 1,145 unique books had occurred in the past nine months. [8] Also in April, the ALA published its annual report on book censorship, finding that there were 729 attempts to remove school, university and library materials in 2021, resulting in 1,597 book ...
2015 (Sunday) April 12 is the 102nd day of the year (103rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 263 days remain until the end of the year.
[1] [10] On March 8, 2020, Harris endorsed former vice president Joe Biden. [11] Harris was chosen by Biden to be his running mate on August 11, 2020. [12] Biden and Harris won the general election, and she became the first female vice president of the United States. [13]
1864 - American Civil War: Fort Pillow massacre -- Confederate forces under General Nathan Bedford Forrest kill most of the African American soldiers who had surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. 1865 - American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army. 1934 - The strongest surface wind gust in the world, 231 mph, was measured by ...
As of April 10, 2020, most American public and private schools—at least 124,000—had closed nationwide, affecting at least 55.1 million students. [31] By April 22, school buildings had been ordered or recommended to be closed for the remainder of the academic year in 39 states, three territories, and the District of Columbia. [31]