-1931-

Harvey Cushing Society Founded.

-1933-

Chicago hosts its second World’s Fair, Century of Progress, to revive a city and country worn by the depression.

-1934-

Founding of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Noted criminal, John Dillinger, gunned down outside the Biograph Theatre and taken to the City Morgue where thereafter his brain mysteriously disappeared and remains never located.

-1936-

Bucy publishes "A Comparative Cytoarchitectonic Study of the Motor and Pre-Motor Areas in Primate Cortex”. J Comp Neurol 1935;62:293-331.

E Oldberg named as Professor and first head of Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at University of Illinois.

-1938-

-1939-

Klüver and Bucy describe behavior effects of temporal lobectomy in reheus monkeys: Klüver-Bucy Syndrome.

University of Chicago develops an autonomous Division of Neurology.

-1940-

HD Singer, Professor at University of Illinois, elected president of the ANA.

-1941-

Union between Rush Medical College and the University of Chicago dissolved and Rush Board of Trustees begins negotiations to affiliate with the Presbyterian Hospital, which in turn entered into an arrangement with the University of Illinois.

-1942-

LJ Pollock elected president of the American Neurological Association.

American Neurological Association holds its 68th Annual Meeting in Chicago.

-1944-

Chicago neurologists were important contributors to the study of war-related injuries during WWII. Among the important contributions was B Boshes’ “Battle Neuroses: Electric Shock Treatment of Refractory Cases in Theater of Operations”. Med Bull. North African Theater of Operations 1944,1:17-23.

-1945-

P Bailey conducts a survey of US neurologists and concludes that only about one dozen neurologists in the entire country practiced medical neurology as an exclusive and full-time specialty.

Loyal Davis (1896-1982), Professor at Northwestern becomes President of Society of Neurological Surgeons.

-1946-

P Bailey publishes his seminal analysis of contemporary American Neurology, “The Practice of Neurology in the USA” J Assoc Am Med College 1946;21:292.

-1947-

Chicago Medical School is founded.FA Gibbs and E Gibbs published the first indepth EEG recordings in humans guided by stereotactic equipement suggesting the anatomical origin of the three per second spike-and-wave of petit mal. (Gibbs FA, Hayne R. The Localizing Value of Electrical Signs in Electroencephalography. Dis of Nerv Syst 9:289-290,1948.)

-1953-

University of Illinois Professor, RP Mackay elected as president of the ANA.

-1955-

Percival Bailey serves as president of the American Neurological Association.

Richard J Daley elected mayor of Chicago.

American Neurological Association holds its 80th Annual Meeting in Chicago.

-1959-

Although Chicago had 227 physicians certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, only 8 were Board certified in neurology alone (4 of them neurosurgeons).