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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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Loose Fur was an American rock band composed of Wilco members Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche, and Wilco collaborator Jim O'Rourke. The trio first convened in May 2000 in preparation for a Tweedy performance at a festival in Chicago. Tweedy was offered the opportunity to collaborate with an artist of his choosing, and he decided to work with O'Rourke. O'Rourke brought Kotche to a rehearsal session, and the trio recorded an album's worth of songs. The trio have since released two albums, 2003's Loose Fur and 2006's Born Again in the USA, for Drag City. The band was a side project of Wilco, and only toured once. The band is noted for its influence on Wilco's fourth album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Tweedy was unhappy with how music from the initial recording sessions for the album were sounding, resulting in a lineup change for the band.

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Image 1When 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 2The Chicago Board of Trade Building (from Chicago)
Image 3An Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station. (from Chicago)
Image 4The main hall of the Field Museum of Natural History in 2007, with Sue the T. rex in the foreground (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 5The Chicago Picasso (1967) inspired a new era in urban public art. (from Chicago)
Image 6Ford Explorer SUV as a Chicago Police Department vehicle, 2021 (from Chicago)
Image 7Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people: ⬤ White ⬤ Black ⬤ Asian ⬤ Hispanic ⬤ Other (from Chicago)
Image 8The Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 9Aerial view of Navy Pier located in the Streeterville neighborhood, one of the most visited attractions in the Midwestern United States. (from Chicago)
Image 10The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window. (from Chicago)
Image 11Home Insurance Building (1885) (from Chicago)
Image 12Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931) (from Chicago)
Image 13Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront (from Chicago)
Image 14The Chicago River during the January 2014 cold wave (from Chicago)
Image 15The University of Chicago campus as seen from the Midway Plaisance (from Chicago)
Image 16Chicago Theatre (from Chicago)
Image 17Chicago Theatre (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 18Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 19Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 20Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of The Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition (from Chicago)
Image 21Chicago tenants picket against rent increases (March 1920) (from Chicago)
Image 22Chicago-style deep-dish pizza (from Chicago)
Image 23Jay Pritzker Pavilion (from Chicago)
Image 24Ethnic origins in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 25Chicago-style hot dog (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 26Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus (from Chicago)
Image 27The Chicago Picasso (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 28Community areas of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 29WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station. (from Chicago)
Image 30Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange (2022) after reconstruction; it initially opened in the 1960s. (from Chicago)
Image 31Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 32Buckingham Fountain is located in Grant Park in the Loop. (from Chicago)
Image 33A satellite image of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 34Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States. (from Chicago)
Image 35Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 36Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. (from Chicago)
Image 37O'Hare International Airport (from Chicago)
Image 38Willie Dixon (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 39Daley 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 40Aerial view of the Chicago Loop in 2012 (from Chicago)
Image 41Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011, and of other Harpo Production operations until 2015. (from Chicago)
Image 42Flag of Chicago (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 43A Polish market in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 44The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 45Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side (from Chicago)
Image 46An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (from Chicago)
Image 47Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention (from Chicago)
Image 48Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo on the North Side (from Chicago)
Image 49People walking around Buckingham Fountain to attend a rally (2013) (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 50Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (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 from the old Chicago Station, a five-cent fare would get you as far west as California?
... that Josie Childs served as a Chicago mayor's assistant, worked as a campaign organizer for three U.S. presidents, and hosted the British queen?
... that people in the 1980s expressed interest in buying Chicago's James Charnley House only because they wanted to see the interior?
... that William Heath Byford performed the first ovariotomy in Chicago in 1860?
... that a college designed for and led by Native Americans was active in Chicago from 1974 to 2005?
... that a "frustration walk" connected Chicago Union Station with the rapid transit Canal station?
... that decades after its closure, the station house of the Chicago "L"'s Madison station would house a hot dog stand?
... that Ruth Scott Miller, the first female music critic for the Chicago Tribune, said she was hired to "write for the masses and not for 'four or five thousand freak music lovers'"?

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Andrés Marcelo Nocioni is an Argentine basketball player who played five seasons for the NBA's Chicago Bulls, and for the Argentine national team. Nocioni won a gold medal with the Argentine national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. His natural position is small forward, though with the Bulls he has played some minutes at power forward. He shares both Argentine and Italian citizenship. Nocioni is known as Chapu after the Mexican children TV series El Chapulín Colorado. Nocioni has a wife named Paula and a son named Laureano.

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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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"Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America." — Dave Grohl

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May 29, 2025 –: U.S. president Donald Trump commutes the federal prison sentence of Larry Hoover, the founder of the Chicago street gang Gangster Disciples, who was sentenced to six life sentences on conspiracy, extortion, drug and other criminal charges in the 1990s. (BBC News)

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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 Adriana Pirtea (pictured on right in picture) lost the 2007 Chicago Marathon to Berhane Adere when Adere slipped down the side of the street and crossed outside of the finish-line tape?
...that only Wacker Drive has buildings addressed North, South, East and West. It is the only road in Chicago to exist on both sides of both Madison Avenue and State Street.
...that the Hilton Hotels brand, Waldorf-Astoria, is attempting to expand its brand beyond the The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, with new hotels such as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Residence Tower in Chicago?
...that Chicago Police Department Police Commander Jon Burge was absolved of responsibility for police brutality and torture by statute of limitations after a $17 million investigation of 148 cases?

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