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Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. Located on the western shore of Lake Michigan, it is the third-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 2.74 million at the 2020 census. The Chicago metropolitan area has 9.41 million residents and is the third-largest metropolitan area in the country. Chicago is the seat of Cook County, the second-most populous county in the U.S.

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, ranking sixth globally, generating over $919 billion in 2024. Chicago's economy is diverse, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. (Full article...)

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Fall Out Boy is an American band from Wilmette, Illinois, (a suburb of Chicago) that formed in 2001. The band consists of Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz, and Andy Hurley. Fall Out Boy has won several awards for their album From Under the Cork Tree. Released in 2005, the album has achieved triple platinum status after selling more than 2.5 million albums in the United States. In support of the album, Fall Out Boy headlined tours in 2005 and the year before 2007 in the United States, Canada, Japan, and Europe. In February 2007, the band released Infinity on High to major chart success, reaching #1 on the Billboard 200 and selling 260,000 copies in its first week. The first single, "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race", reached #1 on the Pop 100 and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. To promote the album, the band performed at the Live Earth concerts July 7, headlined the Honda Civic Tour through mid-2007, and the band performed at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 9.

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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 2An Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station. (from Chicago)
Image 3Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront (from Chicago)
Image 4People walking around Buckingham Fountain to attend a rally (2013) (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 5The Chicago Picasso (1967) inspired a new era in urban public art. (from Chicago)
Image 6Chicago Theatre (from Chicago)
Image 7An 1855 daguerreotype attributed to Alexander Hesler of the Cook County Court House and City Hall. Believed to be the oldest surviving photograph taken in Chicago. (from Chicago)
Image 8Aerial view of Navy Pier located in the Streeterville neighborhood, one of the most visited attractions in the Midwestern United States. (from Chicago)
Image 9Chicago tenants picket against rent increases (March 1920) (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 11An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (from Chicago)
Image 12Willie Dixon (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 13The University of Chicago campus as seen from the Midway Plaisance (from Chicago)
Image 14Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention (from Chicago)
Image 15Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people: ⬤ White ⬤ Black ⬤ Asian ⬤ Hispanic ⬤ Other (from Chicago)
Image 16The Chicago Board of Trade Building (from Chicago)
Image 17The Chicago River during the January 2014 cold wave (from Chicago)
Image 18Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011, and of other Harpo Production operations until 2015. (from Chicago)
Image 19Chicago Theatre (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 20Chicago-style deep-dish pizza (from Chicago)
Image 21A satellite image of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 22Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 23Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 24Chicago-style hot dog (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 25The Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 26Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 27A Polish market in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 28The main hall of the Field Museum of Natural History in 2007, with Sue the T. rex in the foreground (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 29The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 30Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus (from Chicago)
Image 31Flag of Chicago (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 32Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (from Chicago)
Image 33Jay Pritzker Pavilion (from Chicago)
Image 34When 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 35Ford Explorer SUV as a Chicago Police Department vehicle, 2021 (from Chicago)
Image 36Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. (from Chicago)
Image 37Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931) (from Chicago)
Image 38Ethnic origins in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 39O'Hare International Airport (from Chicago)
Image 40WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station. (from Chicago)
Image 41Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange (2022) after reconstruction; it initially opened in the 1960s. (from Chicago)
Image 42Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo on the North Side (from Chicago)
Image 43The Chicago Picasso (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 44Home Insurance Building (1885) (from Chicago)
Image 45Buckingham Fountain is located in Grant Park in the Loop. (from Chicago)
Image 46Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 47Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side (from Chicago)
Image 48Daley 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 49Aerial view of the Chicago Loop in 2012 (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 51Community areas of Chicago (from Chicago)

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There have been over 20 Chicago Bulls head coaches. The Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois, playing in the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Bulls currently play their home games in the United Center. The Bulls first joined the NBA in the 1966–67 season as an expansion team. Coached by Johnny Kerr, the team finished its first season with a 33–48 record, the best record achieved by an expansion team in its first year of play, and secured a playoff berth. Kerr won the NBA Coach of the Year Award that year. The Bulls won their first NBA championship in the 1991 NBA Finals while coached by Phil Jackson. They won five additional NBA championships in the 1990s under Jackson. Phil Jackson is the only member of the franchise to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach. He is also the franchise's all-time leader in regular season games coached, regular season games won, playoff games coached, and playoff games won. Jerry Sloan, Bill Cartwright, and Pete Myers formerly played for the Bulls. (Read more...)

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... that scientists at the University of Chicago achieved a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction under the stands of a football stadium?
... that a tornado near Chicago was produced by a storm with a hydrodynamical helicity four times higher than the threshold favorable for tornadogenesis?
... that all of the walnut decorations in Chicago's Emil Bach House were sourced from a single tree?
... that tickets of the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad could be purchased for Bellwood station at a local drug store?
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... that the Fun Lounge police raid is considered the main cause for the formation of Mattachine Midwest, a gay rights group in Chicago?
... that Chicago's Kasama is the world's first Filipino restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star?

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Michael Jordan is a retired American professional basketball player. Widely considered one of the greatest basketball players of all time, he became one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was instrumental in popularizing the NBA (National Basketball Association) around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. After a standout career at the University of North Carolina, Jordan joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in 1984. He quickly emerged as one of the stars of the league, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His leaping ability, illustrated by performing slam dunks from the foul line at Slam Dunk Contests, earned him the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness." He also gained a reputation as one of the best defensive players in basketball. In 1991, he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a "three-peat". Though Jordan abruptly left the NBA in October 1993 to pursue a career in baseball, he rejoined the Bulls in 1995 and led them to three additional championships (1996, 1997, and 1998). His 1995–96 Bulls team won an NBA-record 72 regular-season games. Jordan retired for a second time in 1999, but he returned for two more NBA seasons as a member of the Washington Wizards from 2001 to 2003.

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The DeKalb County Courthouse is located in the county seat of DeKalb County, Illinois, U.S.A., the city of Sycamore. The Classical Revival structure sits on a square facing Illinois Route 64 as it passes through the city. The current courthouse was constructed in 1905 amid controversy over where the courthouse and thus, ultimately, the county seat would be located. The current building is the third structure to bear the name "DeKalb County Courthouse." DeKalb County's Courthouse still serves as the county's primary judicial center and is a contributing property to the Sycamore Historic District. The district joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. As the county's primary courthouse for over 100 years, the site has been host to many trials, including prominent murder cases. The building is cast in the Classical Revival architectural style and contains elements common to that style. Stained glass, columns and a pediment are among the more noticeable features at a glance. The rear facade of the building is designed to resemble a temple and also features stained glass windows. A stone porte-cochere covers the rear driveway. Inside the building's third floor courtroom is more stained glass, in the form of a skylight. During the early 1980s a made for television movie had scenes filmed in the DeKalb County Courthouse's courtroom.

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"Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos." — Ben Hecht

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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 • Pope Leo XIV • 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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