1964 Completion of Southwest Expressway (soon renamed Stevenson Expressway).
1965 The University of Illinois' Chicago Circle Campus opens.
1966 Richard Speck murders eight student nurses.
1967 Chicago's biggest snow storm-- 13 inches. Picasso statue unveiled Daley Plaza.
1968 Race riots after Martin Luther King's assassination. More riots during the Democratic National Convention.
1969 John Hancock Center opens as city's tallest building.
1973 Construction finished on Sears Tower, world's tallest building until 1997.
1978 Demise of the Chicago Daily News.
1979 American Airlines Flight 191 crashes, killing 273.
1983 Harold Washington elected city's first black mayor.
One More To Go. --DaCoot
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