Happy birthday to the city of Chicago! ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch The city was officially founded on March 4, 1837. The video in the player above is from a previous report ...

It opened on May 12, 1930. The Water Tower was built in the late 1860s. It was one of the few buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. It was designed by Architect William W.