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

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The Chicago Cubs are a Major League Baseball franchise based in Chicago, Illinois that plays in the National League Central division. In the history of the franchise, it has also played under the names Chicago White Stockings, Chicago Colts and Chicago Orphans. The Cubs have used 68 different starting pitchers on Opening Day since they first became a Major League team in 1876. The Cubs have a record of 74 wins, 58 losses and 2 ties in their Opening Day games. The Cubs have played at their current home, Wrigley Field, since 1916. They have a record of 22 wins, 20 losses and 1 tie in Opening Day games at Wrigley Field. They had an Opening Day record of six wins, one loss and one tie at their other home ball parks, for a total home record in Opening Day games of 28 wins, 21 losses and 2 ties. Their record in Opening Day away games is 46 wins and 37 losses. Ferguson Jenkins holds the Cubs record for most Opening Day starts with seven, in which his record was two wins, two losses and three no decisions. Larry Corcoran, Clark Griffith, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Charlie Root, Rick Sutcliffe and Carlos Zambrano have each made five Opening Day starts for the Cubs. Zambrano is the Cubs' most recent Opening Day starting pitcher, having made all Opening Day starts since 2005. Five Cubs' Opening Day starting pitchers have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame: Griffith, Alexander, Jenkins, Al Spalding and John Clarkson. In addition, 300–game winner Greg Maddux was the Cubs' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1992. (Read more...)

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... that a college designed for and led by Native Americans was active in Chicago from 1974 to 2005?
... that kids could fight the Great Chicago Fire at Freedomland U.S.A.?
... that four course records were broken during the 2023 Chicago Marathon?
... that decades after its closure, the station house of the Chicago "L"'s Madison station would house a hot dog stand?
... that some regular users of the Schiller Woods magic water pump near Chicago believe that it was covertly blessed by Pope John Paul II in 1979?
... that Red Blanchard, the owner of Iowa radio station KSMN, commuted 800 miles (1280 km) by plane from Mason City each week to host a radio show in Chicago?
... that Chicago's Kasama is the world's first Filipino restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star?
... that Chicago-style barbecue is cooked in an aquarium smoker?

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Edward M. "Ed" Burke (born 1943) is alderman of the 14th Ward of the City of Chicago. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the Chicago City Council in 1969, and represents part of the city's Southwest Side. Chair of Council's Committee on Finance, Burke has been called Chicago's "most powerful alderman" by the Chicago Sun-Times. Burke was named one of the "100 Most Powerful Chicagoans" by Chicago Magazine, describing him as "[o]ne of the last of the old-school Chicago Machine pols". Burke is the longest serving alderman in Chicago history. He was a leader of the "Vrdolyak 29" during the first term of Mayor Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor, the "Council Wars" era. Burke and his staff were the subjects of federal and local investigations, and members of his staff were the targets of indictments and convictions involving payroll and contracting irregularities. Burke is the lead partner in a law firm that specializes in property tax appeals and which includes clients who do business with the city. Burke's wife is Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne M. Burke. He and his wife were foster parents and were party to a protracted, highly publicized, racially charged child custody dispute.

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Washington Park Court District is a Grand Boulevard community area neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on October 2, 1991. Despite its name, it is not located within either the Washington Park community area or the Washington Park park, but is one block north of both. The district was named for the Park. The district includes row houses built between 1895 and 1905, with addresses of 4900–4959 South Washington Park Court and 417–439 East 50th Street. Many of the houses share architectural features. The neighborhood was part of the early twentieth century segregationist racial covenant wave that swept Chicago following the Great Migration. The community area has continued to be almost exclusively African American since the 1930s.

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"Chicago—is—oh well a façade of skyscrapers facing a lake, and behind the façade every type of dubiousness." — E. M. Forster

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April 25, 2024 – 2024 NFL draft: The first round of the NFL draft is held in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., with the Chicago Bears taking former USC quarterback Caleb Williams with the first overall pick. (Chicago Tribune)

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Chicago

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 Meigs Field in Chicago, Illinois, sits on the site of Burnham Park (pictured), which was a serious contender to host the United Nations Headquarters?
...that Rush Street, now known for its nightlife, has had four bridges over the Chicago River connecting the Loop to the Near North Side and once handled 50% of Chicago's north-south traffic?
...that the Fama-DFA Prize is named after University of Chicago Graduate School of Business professor Eugene Fama, a financial economist whose publications are the foundation of efficient market theory?
...that architect John M. Van Osdel drafted the plans for the first architect-designed house in Chicago, formed Chicago's first architectural firm and ensured passage of Chicago's first building codes?

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