... that a mock funeral was held outside company headquarters during the 1986–1987 John Deere strike in which 700 union workers ceremoniously burned a coffin and a Christmas tree covered in company hats?
... that Ava Cherry(pictured), David Bowie's partner and muse, spent a year searching for him in Europe after he cancelled a tour of Japan on which she was to be a backup singer?
... that a former owner of Illinois radio station WRBA carried an expired police badge to allow him to get to its transmitter site quickly if need be?
... that when Lurie Children's Hospital moved within Chicago to a new location in June 2012, it took more than 10 hours to transfer nearly 200 children?
... that when the fireman's pole was invented at Chicago's Engine Company 21, other firefighters thought its use was crazy—until 21 started being the first crew to arrive at fires?
... that the tugboat Robert C. Pringle(pictured) was discovered "remarkably intact" 86 years after it sank?
... that City of Champaign v. Madigan was the first decision by an Illinois court addressing whether the private emails of government officials are subject to public disclosure?
... that Vine-Glo sold during Prohibition carried a warning telling people how to make wine from it, and Al Capone allegedly threatened to force it out of Chicago?
... that Majestic Radios(model pictured) were so highly regarded in 1929 that the Graf Zeppelin's navigator bought one when his airship landed in the U.S. to take back to Germany?
... that in 825 feet (251 m) of water, the composite-hulled bulk carrier S.R. Kirby is one of the deepest shipwrecks ever discovered in the Great Lakes?
... that the Builders Building(pictured), originally built to house construction industries, would eventually be home to the Chicago Board of Education and later be renovated into a hotel?
... that on their display in Chicago in 1893, the vases of the Khalili Imperial Garniture(pictured) were described as "the largest examples of cloisonné enamel ever made"?
... that the producers of the 1990 film Home Alone were threatened with legal action by the French director of 3615 code Père Noël, who alleged that it was a remake of his film?
... that John Moutoussamy is the only African-American to have designed a high-rise building—which featured "colorful walls and psychedelic carpets"—in the Chicago Loop?
... that in 2017, Renee Rabinowitz successfully sued El Al after the airline forced her to move at the request of a Haredi Jewish man who refused to sit beside her?
... that pitcher Ned Garvin(pictured) was fined US$100 and released by the Chicago White Stockings in 1902 after he shot a bar owner and pistol-whipped a policeman?
... that Chicago's 1000 South Michigan is a supertall skyscraper planned to rise to over 1,000 feet (300 m), even though it is in a historic district zoned for buildings up to 425 feet (130 m)?
... that an investigation into the case of Juan Rivera uncovered proof of evidence tampering when his shoes, which had the victim's blood on them, also bore DNA from the real killer?
... that eight months after launch, d-CON was selling US$100,000-worth of rat poison per week, a feat that was called "as brilliant a record for a new product as you're likely to find anywhere, anytime"?
... that despite having "little film-industry credibility", Brenda Sexton increased filmmaking-related spending in Illinois by 147 percent in her first year at the Illinois Film Office?
... that film producer and Art Institute graduate Anne Rosellini wrote her first screenplay because "I didn't have the money to hire a writer, so I just decided to do it myself"?
... that the Harriet F. Rees House(pictured) in Chicago was recently moved one block north to make room for a basketball stadium and a 1,200-room hotel?
... that Trib columnist and "Father of Logology" Dmitri Borgmann earned $10,000 for coining the name Exxon, making him (at $2000 per letter) the world's highest-paid writer?
... that in World War II, Chicagoan Zenon B. Lukosius and his crew mates captured the U-505 submarine(pictured), which had an important German code book on board?
... that the Watseka Wonder, the alleged spiritual possession of Lurancy Vennum (pictured) of Watseka, was called "the most remarkable case of spirit return and manifestation ever recorded in history"?
... that the bio-hacker and Art Institute instructor Heather Dewey-Hagborg collects discarded hair, gum, and cigarette butts, sequences the DNA, and turns it into a 3-D sculpture?
...that between 1923 and 1969, the official language of Illinois was "American"?
...that the 1911 kidnapping and murder of Elsie Paroubek inspired Henry Darger's 15,000-page fantasy novel The Story of the Vivian Girls, in the Realms of the Unreal?
...that the staircases of the Monadnock Building(pictured), built in 1893, were the first structural use of aluminum in construction?
...that the Illinois High School Association was one of the last high school athletic associations in America to retain a one-class competition system, grouping all schools together regardless of size?
Aleksey Suvorin...that Chicago's Crown Fountain (pictured) displays LED images of faces, which typically create the illusion of puckered lips spouting water?
...that 141 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, the address of the Chicago Board of Trade Building, has been the address of two different buildings that at one point was the tallest building in Chicago?