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Chicagoans only... but we'll make you an honorary Chicagoan, wherever you live, if you can answer all these questions. For the answers, send me an e-mail with the name of the bar across the street from the old Area Six headquarters building at Damen and Grace on the North Side (it's mentioned in Homicide 69). 1. What's the longest street in Chicago?2. Name the Chicago gangster who headed the Outfit until he committed suicide in 1943. 3. What was Muddy Waters's real name? 4. What was the address of the garage where the St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place? 5. What street gang did Sam Giancana and other top Outfit hoodlums belong to as youths? 6. Name the famous jazz club that used to be at Rush and Bellevue, now the site of Gibson's. 7. Name the Cub outfielder who misplayed two crucial fly balls in a 1969 game against the Mets, drawing criticism from teammate Ron Santo. 8. Name the "B & B Boys", the famous mob lawyers who represented Outfit clients from the twenties through the sixties. 9. Name the victim of "thrill killers" Leopold and Loeb. 10. Name the Outfit hit man who became the only person ever convicted of murder in a second trial after being acquitted in the first. 11. What is now located at the site of the old Riverview amusement park? 12. Name the White Sox slugger who led the A.L. in homers in 1971. 13. Name the hotel that contained the "smoke-filled room" where Warren G. Harding was chosen as the Repubican nominee in 1920. 14. For whom is Humboldt Park named? 15. What was the former name of Martin Luther King Drive? 16. What Chicago high school did Bears great Dick Butkus attend? 17. For whom is Wacker Drive named? 18. What was Al Capone's nickname inside the mob? (not "Scarface") 19. What was Tony Accardo's nickname inside the mob? (not "the Big Tuna") 20. What was the first stadium the Bulls played in? 21. Name the North Side police district that was the center of the 1960 scandal that precipitated police reform in Chicago. 22. Who coached the Black Hawks to their last Stanley Cup win in 1961? 23. What was the name of the stadium at the University of Chicago under which Enrico Fermi carried out the first nuclear reaction? 24. Name the famous folk music club, closed in 1980, that was just west of the Belmont el stop. 25. Name the famous Chicago cop who killed nine men in the line of duty in the course of his 39-year career. |