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Word: chicago (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conversion of biomass into energy has been increasing even without Government help. Power plants in many cities, including New York, Chicago and Milwaukee, burn garbage to produce electricity, and more and more grain, sugar cane, wood wastes and other residues are being fermented into alcohol fuels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lighting Up Synfuel's Future | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...were those women sizing up one another like a couple of harridans glaring over a backyard fence? Incredibly they were Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne and Heather Bilandic, socialite wife of the former mayor with whom Byrne has been feuding before and after she knocked him off in a bitter and surprising primary last February. The confrontation took place when Byrne, who recently ordered an end to round-the-clock police protection for Michael Bilandic, his wife and their eight-month-old son, showed up at a block party in the Bilandic's Bridgeport neighborhood. Spotting her honor, whom Bilandic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 30, 1979 | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...hired two models in bikinis to stroll into the Chicago printing plant where John worked to sing him a happy birthday. Belly dancers appeared at Sam's auto business to perform. A plane hired by Sam streamed greetings past John's house. A high school band hired by John played For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. An elephant was delivered to John's home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Happy Birthday! | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

They tell me he was back at Wrigley, preaching the gospel about the destiny of the Chicago-Houston series, which started that...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: It's Home | 7/27/1979 | See Source »

Later on, in about the fifth inning, with the Cubs ahead, 3-1, the veteran oddsmaker denied the trend of the game, proudly announcing to all around that if the Cubs won, he would "strip on Michigan Avenue," the main street in downtown Chicago...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: It's Home | 7/27/1979 | See Source »

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