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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 finance 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 ten 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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Wrigley Square is a public square located in the northwest section of Millennium Park in the Historic Michigan Boulevard District of the Loop area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, USA. The square is located at the southeast corner of the intersection of East Randolph Street and North Michigan Avenue. It contains the Millennium Monument, a nearly full-sized replica of the semicircle of paired Greek Doric-style columns (called a peristyle) that originally sat in this area of Grant Park, near Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street, between 1917 and 1953. The square also contains a large lawn and a public fountain.

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Image 1Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States. (from Chicago)
Image 2O'Hare International Airport (from Chicago)
Image 3Daley Plaza and the Chicago Picasso, with City Hall-County Building visible in background. At right, the Daley Center contains the state law courts. (from Chicago)
Image 4Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011, and of other Harpo Production operations until 2015. (from Chicago)
Image 5The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window. (from Chicago)
Image 6An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (from Chicago)
Image 7The Chicago Board of Trade Building (from Chicago)
Image 8Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 9Ethnic origins in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 10Jay Pritzker Pavilion (from Chicago)
Image 11Community areas of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 12The Chicago River during the January 2014 cold wave (from Chicago)
Image 13Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 14Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention (from Chicago)
Image 15The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 16A satellite image of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 17When 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 18The main hall of the Field Museum of Natural History in 2007, with Sue the T. rex in the foreground (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 19Ford Explorer SUV as a Chicago Police Department vehicle, 2021 (from Chicago)
Image 20The Chicago Picasso (1967) inspired a new era in urban public art. (from Chicago)
Image 21Buckingham Fountain is located in Grant Park in the Loop. (from Chicago)
Image 22Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of The Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition (from Chicago)
Image 23A Polish market in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 24Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange (2022) after reconstruction; it initially opened in the 1960s. (from Chicago)
Image 25Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 26Aerial view of Navy Pier located in the Streeterville neighborhood, one of the most visited attractions in the Midwestern United States. (from Chicago)
Image 27People walking around Buckingham Fountain to attend a rally (2013) (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 28Chicago-style deep-dish pizza (from Chicago)
Image 29Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side (from Chicago)
Image 30Nature Boardwalk at the Lincoln Park Zoo, North Side (from Chicago)
Image 31Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931) (from Chicago)
Image 32The Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 33Chicago tenants picket against rent increases (March 1920) (from Chicago)
Image 34Chicago-style hot dog (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 35WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station. (from Chicago)
Image 36Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront (from Chicago)
Image 37Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. (from Chicago)
Image 38Chicago Theatre (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 39Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (from Chicago)
Image 40The Chicago Picasso (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 41Chicago Theatre (from Chicago)
Image 42Willie Dixon (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 43The University of Chicago campus as seen from the Midway Plaisance (from Chicago)
Image 44Flag of Chicago (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 45Home Insurance Building (1885) (from Chicago)
Image 46An Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station. (from Chicago)
Image 47Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus (from Chicago)
Image 48Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people: ⬤ White ⬤ Black ⬤ Asian ⬤ Hispanic ⬤ Other (from Chicago)
Image 49Aerial view of the Chicago Loop in 2012 (from Chicago)
Image 50Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears (from Culture of 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 Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Sports Illustrated have all profiled the smallest TV station in the United States?
... that Chicago Radio public address systems were used extensively by the pro-independence Indian National Congress during the British Raj?
... that a college designed for and led by Native Americans was active in Chicago from 1974 to 2005?
... that decades after its closure, the station house of the Chicago "L"'s Madison station would house a hot dog stand?
... that Univision bought a Chicago TV station that wasn't for sale?
... that Damen, despite being one of the busiest stations on the Chicago "L", lacks accessibility for the disabled?
... that Chicago's Marshfield station had four tracks and three platforms, and involved three branch lines and an interurban?
... that following a 1964 police raid on a gay bar, Chicago newspapers published the names and personal information of several of those arrested?

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Thurman Lowell Tucker was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for nine seasons in the American League with the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians. In 701 career games, Tucker recorded a batting average of .255, had 24 triples, 9 home runs, and 179 runs batted in (RBI). He was nicknamed "Joe E." Tucker because of his resemblance to comedian Joe E. Brown. Born and raised in Texas, Tucker first played professionally with the Siloam Springs Travelers. He gradually progressed through minor league baseball until he was signed by the Chicago White Sox before the 1941 season. He made his major league debut for the team a year later and spent two seasons as their starting center fielder before enlisting in the armed forces for World War II. Upon his return, Tucker played two more seasons for the White Sox. Subsequently, he was traded to the Cleveland Indians, for whom he played four seasons, and continued to play minor league baseball throughout the 1950s. After retirement, he became a major league scout and insurance agent. He died in 1993.

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The Fabyan Windmill is an authentic, working Dutch windmill dating from the 1850s located in Geneva, Illinois. The 68 feet (21 m), five-story wooden smock mill sits upon the onetime estate of Colonel George Fabyan, but is now part of the Kane County Forest Preserve District. In 1979, the windmill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The following year, the windmill was selected to be on a U.S. postage stamp as part of a series of five American windmills included in a stamp booklet called "WINDMILLS USA". It originally operated as a custom grinding mill

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"You can put it on the Board, Yes!" — Ken "Hawk" Harrelson

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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 Chicago's Crown Fountain (pictured) displays LED images of faces, which typically create the illusion of puckered lips spouting water?
...that the preservation movement that resulted in the Chicago Landmark designation began with the 1957 adoption of the Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House?
...the Art Institute of Chicago Building was co-financed by the financiers of the World's Columbian Exposition, which occupied the building for its first six months?
...that 2006 Winter Olympics speedskating champion, Shani Davis', welcome-home celebration was held at the Harold Washington Cultural Center?
...that the Historic Michigan Boulevard District came to be one of the most famous one-sided streets as a result of the legal persistence of Aaron Montgomery Ward?

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