In 1893 Hershey visited the Chicago World's Fair, where he saw an exhibit of German chocolate-making equipment.
Specifically, he had top billing at the Wizard World Chicago Comic Convention 2010.
In one camp are the forces of globalisation: not just McDonald's and other multinational firms but everything from the economics department at the University of Chicago to the World Trade Organisation.
Infielder Tadahito Iguchi was a key member of the Chicago White Sox 2005 World Series champions.
The '27 Yankees Murderers' Row won 110 regular season games and swept the Chicago Cubs in the World Series.
Chicago has had two world expos in its history, and both of those expos ended up being tremendous boosts for the city.
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Being on the opposite side of the world from Chicago, the main futures market, required Australian traders to be flexible from the start.
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Patented in the U.S. in the mid-nineteenth century, the first postcard was created for the world fair in Chicago in 1893.
So how does a nation of 2.8 million people - that's fewer people than in Chicago - produce so many world class runners?
Among high-income world cities, London might finally reach 10 million while the only other high-income world candidate, Chicago, with more than 9 million residents, could take until 2040.
It'd be hard to find a hotter stock than the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the world's largest open-outcry derivatives market that some have called the " Google " of the financial sector because of its high-flying price surge.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) While the Chicago Blackhawks captured the sports world's attention with their record start to the regular season, the Anaheim Ducks cruised right along behind them, waiting for their chance to seize the spotlight.
Over on the diamond, the World Series Champion Chicago White Sox captured their first title since 1917 without their best player, cranky Frank Thomas, who they are looking to ax because they realize that team chemistry is more important than talent.
Since my post, the group has managed to accomplish much, including presenting their designs to student groups across the country, exhibiting at the World Green Energy Symposium, and attending Greenbuild in Chicago, the largest conference on sustainable buildings in the world.
Anniversaries have always been important culturally, he said, and he points to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, which famously celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World.
Louis sought a court injunction, but this engineering feat made the Chicago the first river in the world to flow away from its mouth.
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Professor DEBORAH MATHIS (syndicated columnist and a professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Chicago): Why in the world anyone would want to be mayor of New Orleans right now is beyond me.
For generations, Chicago has welcomed immigrants from around the world, including an awful lot of our NATO allies.
The story's timeline runs from the early '20s to 1934, ending at the close of the World's Fair in Chicago.
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The Chicago district of Pullman was voted the world's most perfect town at the 1896 Prague International Hygienic and Pharmaceutical Exposition.
Boeing recently moved its world headquarters from Seattle to Chicago, Illinois.
Andrews in Scotland, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, the Chicago Zoological Society and the Walt Disney World Resort, on the study of what they call "vocal copying" in dolphins.
In 1893 Chicago held a huge fair, the World's Columbian Exposition, ostensibly to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas but in reality to bind together the city's squabbling immigrants and fractious social groups with a bit of cultural adhesive.
Also they showed images in clear detail, hence the elegant print of a woman gazing down upon the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
Last month in Chicago, Rideau Recognition Solutions, a world leader in web-based employee recognition programs, launched the U.S. version of their global roundtable series on employee recognition in the workplace.
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