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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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Washington Park is a well-defined community area (and neighborhood) on the South Side of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, USA. It includes the 372 acre (1.5 km²) park named Washington Park, stretching east-west from Cottage Grove Avenue to the Dan Ryan Expressway, and north-south from 63rd Street to 51st. The park is the proposed site of the Olympic Stadium and the Olympic Aquatics Center in Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Including the park, the community area hosts two listings on the National Register of Historic Places. It includes and is surrounded by smaller neighborhoods that have gone though notable and often turbulent racial transitions.

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

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The Chicago Cubs are a Major League Baseball team that plays in the National League (NL) Central Division. Since their inception as the White Stockings in 1876, the Cubs have employed over 50 managers. The duties of the team manager include team strategy and leadership on and off the field. The Cubs have had 13 general managers. The general manager controls player transactions, hiring and firing of the coaching staff, and negotiates with players and agents regarding contracts. The first person to officially hold the title of general manager for the Cubs was Charles Weber, who assumed the title in 1934. The franchise's first manager was Baseball Hall of Famer Albert Spalding, who helped the White Stockings become the first champions of the newly formed National League. After co-managing with Silver Flint during the 1879 Chicago White Stockings season, Hall of Famer Cap Anson began an 18-year managerial tenure in 1880, the longest in franchise history. Under Anson, the team won five more NL pennants. Anson won 1,283 games as the White Stockings' manager, the most in franchise history. After taking over for Hall of Fame manager Frank Selee in 1905, Frank Chance—another Hall of Famer—managed the team through the 1912 season. During his tenure, the franchise won four more NL pennants in 1906, 1907, 1908, and 1910, winning its only two World Series titles in 1907 and 1908. Chance's .664 career winning percentage is the highest of any Cubs manager. After Chance, from 1913 through 1960, the Cubs employed nineteen managers, nine of which were inducted into the Hall of Fame. Owner P. K. Wrigley then began experimenting with the managerial position until Hall of Famer Leo Durocher assumed the managerial role for the 1966 season. In the last 37 seasons since Durocher, the Cubs have had many managers. Jim Frey and Don Zimmer led the team to the National League Championship Series (NLCS) in 1984 and 1989, respectively. Dusty Baker's Cubs lost in the 2003 NLCS during the first year of a four-year managing tenure. In 2016, Joe Maddon managed the Cubs to their first World Series title since 1908. (Read more...)

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... that Univision bought a Chicago TV station that wasn't for sale?
... that Chicago-style barbecue is cooked in an aquarium smoker?
... that, at the time of its dedication, the Ulysses S. Grant Monument in Chicago was the largest statue ever cast in bronze in the United States?
... 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?
... that when Oprah Winfrey was honored at the 2018 Golden Globes, the first person she thanked was Dennis Swanson, the Chicago TV station manager who hired her?
... that the Dearborn Street Subway had skip-stop service in 1951 for one morning before it was discontinued?
... that from the old Chicago Station, a five-cent fare would get you as far west as California?

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Roy Gordon Conacher was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks. He was the NHL's leading goal-scorer in 1938–39, his first season in the league. Conacher was a member of two Stanley Cup winning teams with the Bruins and scored the championship winning goal in 1939. He won the Art Ross Trophy in 1948–49 season as the NHL's leading point scorer and was named a first team All-Star. Conacher was a member of the Memorial Cup winning West Toronto Nationals in 1935 as Canadian junior champions and was a member of the Ontario Hockey Association senior champion Toronto Dominions in 1937. Playing in the shadow of his more famous brothers Charlie and Lionel, Roy was known as the "forgotten Conacher". He was posthumously inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1998, following his brothers to become the only trio of siblings so enshrined.

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The Blackstone Hotel is located on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Balbo Street in the Michigan Boulevard Historic District in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. This 290 feet (88 m) 21-story hotel was built from 1908 to 1910 and designed by Marshall and Fox. On May 29, 1998, the Blackstone Hotel was designated as a Chicago Landmark. The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 8, 1986. It is also a historic district contributing property for the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District. The hotel was named for Timothy Blackstone, a notable Chicago business executive and politician, who served as the founding president of the Union Stock Yards, president of the Chicago and Alton Railroad and mayor of La Salle, Illinois. The hotel is famous for celebrity guests including numerous U.S. Presidents, for which it was known as the "Hotel of Presidents" for much of the 20th century. The hotel known for contributing the term "smoke-filled room" to political parlance. The hotel fell disrepair that necessitated closure and renovation. It reopened on March 6, 2008 after a $128 million renovation under the Marriott International Renaissance Hotels brand still using the Blackstone name.

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"[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a “world” city, more European in some respects than American." — John Gunther

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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 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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