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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 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 Museum of Contemporary Art, often abbreviated to MCA, is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The current location at 220 East Chicago Avenue is in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community area.

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

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This is a comprehensive list of awards and nominations won by Kanye West, an American rapper. West's debut album, The College Dropout (2004), earned him the Best Rap Album at the 2005 Grammy Awards, three MOBO Awards, and Best New Artist at the BET Awards. His second album, Late Registration (2005), earned him seven Grammy nominations, two nominations at the BRIT Awards, and Best Rapper at the Vibe Music Awards. "Stronger", the second single from his third album, Graduation (2007), won Best Video at the MOBO Awards, a Best Video of the Year nomination at the MTV Video Music Awards, and a Video Star nomination at the MTV Europe Music Awards. Since beginning his career, West has received thirty awards amongst 100 nominations. (Read more...)

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... that a tornado near Chicago was produced by a storm with a hydrodynamical helicity four times higher than the threshold favorable for tornadogenesis?
... that John William Kiser, who arrived in Chicago "practically penniless", took advantage of a boom in bicycle usage when he formed the Monarch Bicycle company?
... that the Chicago Sun-Times credits JumpStart Toddlers as the first video game targeted towards babies?
... that Leander Schnerr survived the Great Chicago Fire and subsequently became the archabbot of Saint Vincent Archabbey?
... that Damen, despite being one of the busiest stations on the Chicago "L", lacks accessibility for the disabled?
... that Chicago Radio public address systems were used extensively by the pro-independence Indian National Congress during the British Raj?
... that the Dearborn Street Subway had skip-stop service in 1951 for one morning before it was discontinued?
... 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?

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Morris "Moe" Berg was an American professional baseball player who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Although he spent 15 seasons in Major League Baseball, Berg was never more than an average player, and was better known for being "the brainiest guy in baseball" than for anything he accomplished in the game. A graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School, Berg spoke several languages and regularly read 10 newspapers a day. His reputation was fueled by his successful appearances as a contestant on the radio quiz show Information, Please!. As an agent of the United States government, Berg traveled to Yugoslavia to gather intelligence on resistance groups the government was considering supporting. He was then sent on a mission to Italy, where he interviewed various physicists concerning the German nuclear program.

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

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October 13, 2024 – 2024 Chicago Marathon: Kenyan runner Ruth Chepng'etich runs 2:09:56 to break the world record for women's marathon by 1 minute and 57 seconds at the Chicago Marathon. (AP)
September 27, 2024 – 2024 Chicago White Sox's 121st loss, Worst Major League Baseball season win–loss records: The 2024 Chicago White Sox earn their 121st loss against the Detroit Tigers, breaking the Major League Baseball record for the most amount of losses in a post-1900 season. (AP)

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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 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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