-1831-

Population of Chicago = 60.

-1837-

-1845-

Founding of Rush Medical College.

Chicago is designated as a city with a population of 12,000.

-1847-

The first private sanitorium for nervous patients opens in Chicago under the directorship of Dr. Edward Mead.

-1855-

Northwestern University, the city’s first university, opens.

-1856-

Jane Addams sets up Hull House and embarks on a new residential experiment in social reform.

-1859-

-1860-

Chicago hosts the Republican Convention. Lincoln nominated for US presidency.

-1862-

JS Jewell, two years after graduation from medical school becomes Professor of Anatomy at Chicago Medical College.

-1864-

-1865-

Chicago medical training directs attention to military service to provide supplies and staff to the Union Medical Corps.

HM Lyman becomes curator of the pathology service of Cook County Hospital and begins development of one of the most extensive pathological collections worldwide.

-1869-

Dr. Mary H Thompson (1870-1930), the only woman to ever receive a diploma from Chicago Medical College.

-1870-

Women’s Hospital Medical College founded as the only available venue for training women doctors in Chicago.

-1871-

Rush Medical College designates a Department of Nervous and Mental Diseases, under the directorship of W Hay.

Great Chicago Fire destroys much of the city including Rush Medical College and several hospitals.

-1872-

-1873-

JS Jewell named Professor of Psychological Medicine and Nervous Diseases at Chicago Medical College, Medical Department of Northwestern University.

Rush Medical College establishes official neurological teaching by establishing a clinical course on Brain and Nervous System Diseases in its Spring Curriculum.

-1874-

Founding of Chicago Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, to become the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease two years later. Founding editors were Chicago neurologists JS Jewell and HM Bannister.

-1875-

Founding of the American Neurological Association, with three founding members being from Chicago [JS Jewell, W Hay, and HM Bannister]. JS Jewell, Northwestern University, is first president and serves from 1875 to 1879.

-1876-

-1877-

-1879-

Northwestern University prioritizes neurology in changing the professorship title from Professor of Psychological Medicine and Nervous Diseases to Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases.

Lyman named to the Chair of Physiology and Diseases of the Nervous System at Rush.

Opening of the Art Institute of Chicago, originally Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.