Today in Chicago History: Wilco releases ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,’ which Tribune called ‘best album’ of the year
By Kori Rumore
Published on April 23, 2026.
The Chicago Tribune commemorates the day that Wilco released ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ - the best album of 2001. Ald. Clifford Kelley pleaded guilty to accepting $6,500 from Waste Management, Inc., the world's largest trash hauler, and $30,000 from a New York bill-collection agency for lucrative city work in 1987. The first boat carrying sugar and other goods from New Orleans made its way to the Illinois and Michigan Canal in 1848, making Chicago the epicenter of trade in the Midwest. The opening of the Sanitary and Ship Canal in 1900 eliminated the usefulness of the canal as a means of water transportation. The Chicago Federals beat the Kansas City Packers 9-1 in 1940, and baby orangutans traveled 15,000 miles from Sumatra in Indonesia to their new home at Lincoln Park Zoo in 1940. In 2012, Nobel Peace Prize winners gathered in Chicago for the World Summit of Peace, including Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Walesa, and the Dalai Lama, given an award for relief efforts in Haiti.
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