1956: WTTW is first U.S. station to televise college courses for credit.
1956: Abraham Lincoln statue erected in Lincoln Square.
1956: First baby chick is hatched at Museum of Science and Industry.
1957: Old Town School of Folk Music founded.
1958: Our Lady of the Angels school fire kills 95.
1959: The Second City improv group opens its Wells Street theater.
1960: Northwest Expressway opens (renamed Kennedy Expressway in 1963).
1960: Summerdale police scandal — cops linked to burglary ring.
1961: Dan Ryan Expressway opens.
1961: DuSable Museum of African American History founded.
1962: Robert Taylor Homes public housing development opens.
1963: Northwest Expressway renamed for slain President John Kennedy.
1964: Completion of Southwest Expressway (soon renamed Stevenson Expressway).
1965: University of Illinois' Chicago Circle Campus opens.
1966: Martin Luther King Jr. and family move temporarily into West Side apartment.
1966: Richard Speck murders eight student nurses on Far South Side.
1967: Fire destroys McCormick Place convention center.
1967: Chicago's biggest snowstorm in recorded history — 23 inches.
1967: Picasso sculpture installed in Daley Plaza.
1968: Riots rock the city after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in April and during the Democratic National Convention in August.
1956: Abraham Lincoln statue erected in Lincoln Square.
1956: First baby chick is hatched at Museum of Science and Industry.
1957: Old Town School of Folk Music founded.
1958: Our Lady of the Angels school fire kills 95.
1959: The Second City improv group opens its Wells Street theater.
1960: Northwest Expressway opens (renamed Kennedy Expressway in 1963).
1960: Summerdale police scandal — cops linked to burglary ring.
1961: Dan Ryan Expressway opens.
1961: DuSable Museum of African American History founded.
1962: Robert Taylor Homes public housing development opens.
1963: Northwest Expressway renamed for slain President John Kennedy.
1964: Completion of Southwest Expressway (soon renamed Stevenson Expressway).
1965: University of Illinois' Chicago Circle Campus opens.
1966: Martin Luther King Jr. and family move temporarily into West Side apartment.
1966: Richard Speck murders eight student nurses on Far South Side.
1967: Fire destroys McCormick Place convention center.
1967: Chicago's biggest snowstorm in recorded history — 23 inches.
1967: Picasso sculpture installed in Daley Plaza.
1968: Riots rock the city after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in April and during the Democratic National Convention in August.
