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Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the seat of Cook County, the second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents.

Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It has 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 by passenger traffic, and the region is also the nation's railroad hub. The Chicago area has one of the highest gross domestic products (GDP) of any urban region in the world, generating $689 billion in 2018. Chicago's economy is diverse, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. (Full article...)

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The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). They are currently the NFC Champions, after winning the 2006 NFC Championship Game. The Bears have won nine Professional American Football league championships (eight NFL Championships and Super Bowl XX), trailing only the Green Bay Packers, who have twelve. The Bears have the most enshrinees in the Pro Football Hall of Fame with 26 members. The club was founded in Decatur, Illinois, in 1919 and moved to Chicago in 1921. The team played home games at Wrigley Field on Chicago's North Side through the 1970 season. With the exception of the 2002 season, they have played their home games at Chicago's Soldier Field every year since 1971. The stadium is located next to Lake Michigan and was recently remodeled in a modernization that has attempted to bring stadium amenities expected by today's fans to a historic Chicago building. The team has a fierce, longstanding rivalry with the Packers, whom they have played in over 170 games.

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Image 1O'Hare International Airport (from Chicago)
Image 2Willie Dixon (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 3Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 4Aerial view of the Chicago Loop in 2012 (from Chicago)
Image 5Nature Boardwalk at the Lincoln Park Zoo, North Side (from Chicago)
Image 6Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 7The Chicago Picasso (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 8Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront (from Chicago)
Image 9Jay Pritzker Pavilion (from Chicago)
Image 10The Chicago Board of Trade Building (from Chicago)
Image 11WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station. (from Chicago)
Image 12Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011 and other Harpo Production operations until 2015. (from Chicago)
Image 13Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange (2022) after reconstruction, initially opened in the 1960s (from Chicago)
Image 14The Chicago River during the January 2014 cold wave (from Chicago)
Image 15An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (from Chicago)
Image 16The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window. (from Chicago)
Image 17Ford Explorer SUV as a Chicago Police Department vehicle, 2021 (from Chicago)
Image 18Chicago tenants picket against rent increases (March 1920) (from Chicago)
Image 19The Chicago Picasso (1967) inspired a new era in urban public art. (from Chicago)
Image 20Aerial view of Navy Pier located in the Streeterville neighborhood, one of the most visited attractions in the Midwestern United States. (from Chicago)
Image 21A Polish market in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 22Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side (from Chicago)
Image 23Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention (from Chicago)
Image 24Chicago-style deep-dish pizza (from Chicago)
Image 25Chicago Theatre (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 26Community areas of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 27Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 28Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of The Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition (from Chicago)
Image 29Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931) (from Chicago)
Image 30The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 31Daley Plaza and Chicago Picasso, with City Hall-County Building visible in background. At right, the Daley Center contains the state law courts. (from Chicago)
Image 32Buckingham Fountain is located in Grant Park in the Loop (from Chicago)
Image 33Flag of Chicago (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 34When it was opened in 1991, the central Harold Washington Library appeared in Guinness World Records as the largest municipal public library building in the world. (from Chicago)
Image 35Chicago Theatre (from Chicago)
Image 36Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station. (from Chicago)
Image 37The Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 38Chicago-style hot dog (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 39Home Insurance Building (1885) (from Chicago)
Image 40"Chicago" by Carl Sandburg (from Chicago)
Image 41Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States. (from Chicago)
Image 42Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. (from Chicago)
Image 43Ethnic origins in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 44The main hall of the Field Museum of Natural History in 2007, with Sue the T. rex in the foreground (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 45The University of Chicago campus as seen from the Midway Plaisance (from Chicago)
Image 46Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus (from Chicago)
Image 47Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (from Chicago)
Image 48A satellite image of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 49People walking around Buckingham Fountain to attend a rally (2013) (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 50Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people: ⬤ White ⬤ Black ⬤ Asian ⬤ Hispanic ⬤ Other (from Chicago)
Image 51Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs (from Culture of Chicago)

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The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise based in Chicago, Illinois. They play in the American League Central division. Since the institution of MLB's Rule 4 Draft, the White Sox have selected 62 players in the first round. Of the 62 players picked in the first round by the Chicago White Sox, 31 have been pitchers, the most of any position. Ten outfielders, eight catchers, five shortstops, five third basemen, and three first basemen were also taken but never a player at second base. Fourteen of the players came from high schools or universities in the state of California, and Florida follows with seven players. The White Sox have also drafted six players from their home state of Illinois. One player has won a championship with the team; Aaron Rowand (1998) was part of the 2005 World Series championship team. Frank Thomas (1989) was a member of the Chicago White Sox for 16 years, including the 2005 season, but was not part of the World Series roster due to injury. Thomas is also the only first-round draft pick to win the Most Valuable Player Award, winning the honor in both 1993 and 1994. One pick, 1987 selection Jack McDowell, has won the Cy Young Award with the team (1993). The White Sox had the first overall selection twice in the draft, which they used on Danny Goodwin (1971) and Harold Baines (1977). The White Sox have failed to sign three of their first-round picks: Danny Goodwin (1971), Steve Buechele (1979), and Bobby Seay (1996). The White Sox did not receive any compensation for Goodwin or Buechele, but they did receive the 51st pick in 1997 for failing to sign Seay. (Read more...)

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... that Leander Schnerr survived the Great Chicago Fire and subsequently became the archabbot of Saint Vincent Archabbey?
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... that a college designed for and led by Native Americans was active in Chicago from 1974 to 2005?
... that the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Sports Illustrated have all profiled the smallest TV station in the United States?
... that the Chicago "L"'s Laflin station had an elevator for caskets?

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Evan Frank Lysacek is an American figure skater. He is the 2007 & 2008 U.S. National Champion, 2008 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, and a two-time World bronze medalist (2005–2006). At the end of the 2007–2008 season, Lysacek was ranked 7th in the world. He was the United States Olympic Committee's Male Athlete of the Month for November 2006.

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The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, operated in the New City community area of Chicago, Illinois for 106 years, helping the city become known as "hog butcher for the world" and the center of the American meat packing industry for decades. From the Civil War until the 1920s and peaking in 1924, more meat was processed in Chicago than in any other place in the world. Construction began in June 1865 with an opening on Christmas Day in 1865. The Yards closed at midnight on Friday, July 30, 1971 after several decades of decline during the decentralization of the meat packing industry. The Union Stock Yard Gate was designated a Chicago Landmark on February 24, 1972 and a National Historic Landmark on May 29, 1981.

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"It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows her prophecies faster than she can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time." — Mark Twain

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History of Chicago: Windy City • 1871 Great Chicago Fire • Haymarket affair • World's Columbian Exposition • Chicago race riot of 1919 • Chicago Board of Trade • McDonald's • Millennium Park • Cook County Democratic Party

Geography: Chicago River • Fort Dearborn • Prairie Avenue • Magnificent Mile • Cook County, Illinois

People: Daniel Burnham • Richard J. Daley • Oprah Winfrey • Al Capone • Barack Obama • Michael Jordan • Jesse Jackson • Aaron Montgomery Ward • Marshall Field • Potter Palmer • Harold Washington • Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable

Landmarks & Tourist Attractions: Chicago Landmarks • Wrigley Field • Buckingham Fountain • Willis Tower • John Hancock Center • Chicago Cultural Center

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...that 141 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, the address of the Chicago Board of Trade Building (pictured), has been the address of two different buildings that at one point was the tallest building in Chicago?
...that William W. Powers State Recreation Area's Wolf Lake co-hosted a BioBlitz by over 150 scientists who unofficially counted 1,815 species in a day?
...that after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the population of the neighboring Hyde Park Township exceeded that of the devastated city of Chicago?
...that all four deaths in the thirty annual Chicago Marathons have occurred in the last ten years?

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