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• ...that after the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, the Loop Retail Historic District (pictured) was Chicago's premier retailing district until it was replaced by commuter suburbs and the Magnificent Mile?
• ...that Patrick Nash helped change the city charter, which called for a special election in the case of death of the Chicago Mayor, so that the Chicago City Council could appoint Edward Joseph Kelly?
• ...that the merged Rainbow/PUSH is an outgrowth of Jesse Jackson's 1984 Presidential campaign and a factional split in Operation Breadbasket, an affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
• ...that University of Chicago Graduate School of Business professor Toby Moskowitz won the Fischer Black Prize as the top finance researcher under 40 after a 4 year hiatus with no worthy candidates?

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• Wikipedia:Recent additions 210, Loop Retail Historic District archived from appearance on Main Page
• Wikipedia:Recent additions 167, Patrick Nash archived from appearance on Main Page
• Wikipedia:Recent additions 169, Rainbow/PUSH archived from appearance on Main Page
• Wikipedia:Recent additions 169, Toby Moskowitz archived from appearance on Main Page