Weather ~ Picture of the Day ~ Chicago ~ Potato- Stuffed Meat Loaf ~ Nan (Cipolla) Onion ~ Johnny Boyko ~ D-Day

  

Good 50º scattered clouds morning. 

 

 

Yesterday we topped at 91º.

 

 

Picture of the Day....perfect timing 😊

 

 

 

Interesting about Chicago..........

 

Chicago (/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ shih-KAH-goh, locally also /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/ shih-KAW-goh; Miami-Illinois: Shikaakwa; Ojibwe: Zhigaagong) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the third-most populous in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. With a population of 2,746,388 in the 2020 census, it is also the most populous city in the Midwest. As the seat of Cook County (the second-most populous U.S. county), the city is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, one of the largest in the world.

 

On the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century; by 1860, Chicago was the youngest U.S. city to exceed a population of 100,000. The Great Chicago Fire in 1871 destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but Chicago's population continued to grow to 503,000 by 1880 and then doubled to more than a million within the decade. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900, less than 30 years after the fire, Chicago was the fifth-largest city in the world. Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (such as Chicago School architecture, the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper).

 

Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It is the financial center of the U.S. Midwest and the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts, issued by the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is part of the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures alone. O'Hare International Airport is routinely ranked among the world's top six busiest airports according to tracked data by the Airports Council International. The region also has the largest number of federal highways and is the nation's railroad hub. The Chicago area has one of the highest gross domestic products (GDP) in the world, generating $689 billion in 2018. The economy of Chicago is diverse, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. It is home to several Fortune 500 companies, including Archer-Daniels-Midland, Conagra Brands, Exelon, JLL, Kraft Heinz, McDonald's, Mondelez International, Motorola Solutions, Sears, and United Airlines Holdings.

 

Chicago's 58 million tourist visitors in 2018 set a new record. Landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, Willis (Sears) Tower, Grant Park, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicago is also home to the Barack Obama Presidential Center being built in Hyde Park on the city's South Side. Chicago's culture includes the visual arts, literature, film, theater, comedy (especially improvisational comedy), food, dance (including modern dance and jazz troupes and the Joffrey Ballet), and music (particularly jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, gospel, and electronic dance music, including house music). Chicago is also the location of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Of the area's colleges and universities, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois Chicago are classified as "highest research" doctoral universities. Chicago has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues, including two Major League Baseball teams.

 

Etymology and nicknames

Main article: Nicknames of Chicago

See also: Windy City (nickname)

The name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the indigenous Miami-Illinois word shikaakwa for a wild relative of the onion; it is known to botanists as Allium tricoccum and known more commonly as "ramps". The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as "Checagou" was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir. Henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the eponymous wild "garlic" grew profusely in the area. According to his diary of late September 1687:

... when we arrived at the said place called "Chicagou" which, according to what we were able to learn of it, has taken this name because of the quantity of garlic which grows in the forests in this region.

 

The city has had several nicknames throughout its history, such as the Windy City, Chi-Town, Second City, and City of the Big Shoulders.

 

^{If you want to read a lot more, go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago}

 

 

 

From Mr. Food

 

Meat loaf has always been a family favorite, but when it's stuffed with mashed potatoes, like this Potato-stuffed Meat Loaf, there's a double bonus in every bite.

 

• 1 1/2 cups instant potato flakes
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 to 1-1/2 pounds ground beef
• 1 small onion, finely chopped
• 1 medium-sized green bell pepper, finely chopped
• 1 cup seasoned bread crumbs
• 3/4 cup milk
• 2 tablespoons steak sauce

 

1. Preheat oven to 350º. Coat a 5- x 9-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
    
2. In a medium-sized bowl, combine potato flakes, water, sour cream, salt, and 1 egg; mix well and set aside.
    
3. In another medium-sized bowl, combine remaining ingredients; mix well.
    
4. Pat half of meat mixture into prepared loaf pan. Press meat down and make a 1/2-inch indentation down middle length of loaf. Fill indentation with potato mixture. Gently top with remaining meat, pressing meat down over and around potato filling.
    
5. Bake 55 to 60 minutes or until juices run clear. Allow to set 5 minutes before slicing.

 

 

 

Two special birthdays today.... 

Nan (Cipolla) Onion, wife of the infamous Mike, cousin to my travelin' pal Joan Petitclair(who gave me a guided tour of NY when we went on that cruise). HAPPY BIRTHDAY NAN!!! Cheers!!

 

 

 

And the other birthday is Johnny Boyko, former neighbor growing up in El Sereno on Stockbridge Avenue. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHNNY!!

 

 

 

Historically this date......

1752 – A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.

 

1833 – The U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride on a train.

 

1882 – More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbor.

 

1889 – The Great Seattle fire destroys the entirety of downtown Seattle, Washington.

 

1918 – World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood – The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry.

** My Dad was in the Navy in WWI and his ship went to Belleau Wood.

 

1944 – World War II: the Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches ofNormandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.

 

1981 – Bihar train disaster: a passenger train traveling between Mansi and Saharsa,India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed.

 

2005 – The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.

 

And births this date include...

1932 – David Scott, American astronaut

 

 

1956 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player

 

 

1967 – Paul Giamatti, American actor

 

 

 

All I know. Nuff said. Have a good Tuesday. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

June 6, 1944, is known most commonly by the term D-Day. It refers to the landing of Allied forces on the beaches of Normandy, France staging one of the pivotal attacks against Germany during World War II.

The code name Operation Overlord became known as the beginning of the end of World War II. Following the Battle of Normandy, which began on June 6, 1944, along a 50 mile stretch of beaches, including Utah and Omaha Beach, the attack became known as D-Day. While there are many explanations for the name, one reason may be due to the military countdown to the designated day and hour of the assault. D represented Day and H represented Hour in the military.

The battle liberated Northern France with more than 160,000 Allied troops from Britain, the United States and Canada under the leadership of General Dwight Eisenhower. The troops manned more than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft the day of the initial landing.

HOW TO OBSERVE 

World War II museums, memorials, and ceremonies will be honoring the American, British, and Canadian forces who landed along the 50 mile stretch of beaches that day over 75 years ago. Learn more about the Battle of Normandy by exploring World War II museums. Read books about the Battle of Normandy.

 

D-DAY HISTORY

The landing of troops on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, known around the world as D-Day, was given the name Operation Overlord. Leading up to the attack, plans of deception were carried out to mislead Germany.