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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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Boeing Galleries are a pair of outdoor exhibition spaces within Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, USA. The spaces are located along the south and north mid-level terraces, above and east of Wrigley Square and the Crown Fountain. In a conference at the Chicago Cultural Center, Boeing President and Chief Executive Officer James Bell to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley announced Boeing would make a $5 million grant to fund both the construction of and an endowment for the space.

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

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This is a list of seasons completed by the Chicago Bears American football franchise of the National Football League. The list documents the season-by-season records of the Bears' franchise from 1920 to present, including postseason records, and league awards for individual players or head coaches. The Bears franchise was founded as the Decatur Staleys, a charter member of the American Professional Football Association. The team moved to Chicago in 1921, and changed their name to the Bears in 1922, the same year the APFA changed its name to the National Football League. The Chicago Bears have played over one thousand games. In those games, the club won nine professional American football championships including eight NFL Championships and one Super Bowl—the second most in the NFL after the Green Bay Packers' twelve. The franchise captured seventeen NFL divisional titles and four NFL conference championships, and recorded more regular season (677) and overall victories (693) than any other NFL franchise. (Read more...)

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... that the Chicago Community Bond Fund sought to put itself out of business by eliminating cash bail?
... that the Dearborn Street Subway had skip-stop service in 1951 for one morning before it was discontinued?
... that William McAndrew, the superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, was accused of being an agent of George V, King of the United Kingdom?
... 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 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 Chicago journalist Jamie Kalven has amassed a database of nearly 250,000 allegations against police officers?
... that from the old Chicago Station, a five-cent fare would get you as far west as California?
... that four course records were broken during the 2023 Chicago Marathon?

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Wesley Clark is a retired four-star general of the United States Army. Clark was valedictorian of his class at West Point, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford where he obtained a degree in PPE, and later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science. He spent 34 years in the Army and the Department of Defense, receiving many military decorations, several honorary knighthoods, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Clark joined the 2004 race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination as a drafted candidate on September 17, 2003, but withdrew from the primary race on February 11, 2004 in favor of campaigning for the eventual Democratic nominee, John Kerry. Clark currently leads a political action committee — "WesPAC: Securing America" — which was formed after the primaries, and used it to support numerous Democratic Party candidates in the 2006 midterm elections.

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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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"I have struck a city—a real city—and they call it Chicago… Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages." — Rudyard Kipling

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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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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 Ronald Reagan announced his engagement to his first wife, Jane Wyman, at the Chicago Theatre (pictured)?
...that the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, an outdoor bandshell and great lawn, uses an innovative sound system that recreates an indoor concert hall sound experience?
...that the Grant Park Music Festival, a Chicago tradition since its 1931 introduction by Anton Cermak, is America's only remaining free, outdoor concert series featuring classical music?
...that the Chicago City Council revoked the McCarthy Building's Chicago Landmark status to make way for the controversial redevelopment of Chicago's Block 37 in the Chicago Loop?

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