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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 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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Wolf Point is the location at the confluence of the North, South and Main Branches of the Chicago River in the present day Near North Side, Loop, and Near West Side community areas of Chicago. This fork in the river is historically important in the development of early Chicago. This was the location of Chicago's first three taverns, its first hotel, Sauganash Hotel, its first ferry, its first drug store and the first bridges across the Chicago River. The name is said to possibly derive from a Native American Chief whose name translated to wolf, but alternate theories exist. Historically, the west bank of the river at the fork was called "Wolf Point," but in the 1820s and 1830s it came to denote the entire area and the settlement that grew up around the fork. Wolf Point is now often used more specifically to refer to a plot of land on the north side of the fork in the Near North Side community area that is owned by the Kennedy family as part of the larger Merchandise Mart Center complex. Today the north bank at the fork is used for a parking lot, the west bank includes a condominium high rise and railroad tracks, and the south bank serves as the transition point of Wacker Drive from an east-west street to a north-south street.

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Image 1Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931) (from Chicago)
Image 2Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station. (from Chicago)
Image 3Daley 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 4Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 5Flag of Chicago (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 6Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange (2022) after reconstruction, initially opened in the 1960s (from Chicago)
Image 7Ethnic origins in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 8Ford Explorer SUV as a Chicago Police Department vehicle, 2021 (from Chicago)
Image 9Chicago Theatre (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 10The Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 11Nature Boardwalk at the Lincoln Park Zoo, North Side (from Chicago)
Image 12A satellite image of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 13"Chicago" by Carl Sandburg (from Chicago)
Image 14A Polish market in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 15Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of The Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition (from Chicago)
Image 16Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (from Chicago)
Image 17Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States. (from Chicago)
Image 18An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (from Chicago)
Image 19People walking around Buckingham Fountain to attend a rally (2013) (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 20Jay Pritzker Pavilion (from Chicago)
Image 21Aerial view of the Chicago Loop in 2012 (from Chicago)
Image 22Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus (from Chicago)
Image 23The main hall of the Field Museum of Natural History in 2007, with Sue the T. rex in the foreground (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 24The Chicago Picasso (1967) inspired a new era in urban public art. (from Chicago)
Image 25When 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 26Chicago tenants picket against rent increases (March 1920) (from Chicago)
Image 27Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. (from Chicago)
Image 28Home Insurance Building (1885) (from Chicago)
Image 29Chicago-style deep-dish pizza (from Chicago)
Image 30Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side (from Chicago)
Image 31Aerial view of Navy Pier located in the Streeterville neighborhood, one of the most visited attractions in the Midwestern United States. (from Chicago)
Image 32Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 33Chicago-style hot dog (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 34The Chicago Picasso (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 35Willie Dixon (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 36Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 37The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window. (from Chicago)
Image 38The Chicago Board of Trade Building (from Chicago)
Image 39O'Hare International Airport (from Chicago)
Image 40Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 41The Chicago River during the January 2014 cold wave (from Chicago)
Image 42WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station. (from Chicago)
Image 43Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention (from Chicago)
Image 44Buckingham Fountain is located in Grant Park in the Loop (from Chicago)
Image 45Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011 and other Harpo Production operations until 2015. (from Chicago)
Image 46The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 47The University of Chicago campus as seen from the Midway Plaisance (from Chicago)
Image 48Chicago Theatre (from Chicago)
Image 49Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront (from Chicago)
Image 50Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people: ⬤ White ⬤ Black ⬤ Asian ⬤ Hispanic ⬤ Other (from Chicago)
Image 51Community areas of Chicago (from Chicago)

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This is a complete list of Chicago Bears head coaches. The head coaches list for the Chicago Bears, includes coaches for the Decatur Staleys (1919–1920) and Chicago Staleys (1921), of the National Football League (NFL). 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 American Professional Football Association (APFA) changed its name to the National Football League.

The Chicago Bears have played over one thousand games. In those games, five different coaches have won NFL championships with the team: George Halas in 1921, 1933, 1940, 1941, 1946, and 1963, Ralph Jones in 1932, Hunk Anderson and Luke Johnsos in 1943, and Mike Ditka in 1985. George Halas is the only coach to have more than one tenure and is the all-time leader in games coached and wins, while Ralph Jones leads all coaches in winning percentage with .706. Of the 16 Bears coaches, three have been elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame: George Halas, Paddy Driscoll, and Mike Ditka. Statistics correct as of December 30, 2007, after the end of the 2007 NFL season. (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 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'"?
... that after getting drunk and verbally abusing Cap Anson at a baseball game during his off day, Charlie Bartson was released from the Chicago Pirates?
... that William Heath Byford performed the first ovariotomy in Chicago in 1860?
... that Chicago Radio public address systems were used extensively by the pro-independence Indian National Congress during the British Raj?
... that kids could fight the Great Chicago Fire at Freedomland U.S.A.?
... that Damen, despite being one of the busiest stations on the Chicago "L", lacks accessibility for the disabled?
... that YouTuber Joey Santore is known for his "Bill Swerski–esque" Chicago accent and use of profanity on his channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't?

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Sandra "Sandi" Jackson (née Stevens, formerly Sandra Lee Stevens), was elected to the Chicago City Council as an alderman of the 7th ward (map) in the 2007 municipal elections held on February 27, 2007. She succeeds Darcel A. Beavers who had been appointed by Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley after the 2006 November elections to succeed her father William Beavers, Jackson's rival, as alderman of the 7th Ward. She is the wife of U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and daughter-in-law of Jesse Jackson. Her candidacy for the city council of a major city was part of national news stories in The New York Times, and thoughts of her running for a position in the United States House of Representatives was noted in Time. Jackson has also been a long-time political consultant through her solely owned consulting firm J. Donatella & Associates.

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Schulze Baking Company Plant is a factory building located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is located in the Washington Park community area. Built in 1914, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 12, 1982. Originally built for the Schulze Baking Company, it is now the home of the Butternut Bread Company. The building features a terra cotta exterior with ornamentation that pays tribute to Louis Sullivan. In the early 21st Century, the building fell into a state of disrepair.

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"Once you've come to be a part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real." — Nelson Algren

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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 the All-American Wistert brothers Albert (pictured), Alvin and Whitey wore number 11 and played offensive tackle as University of Michigan Wolverines before being named to the College Football Hall of Fame?
...that the 1860 Republican and 1864 Democratic national conventions were held at the Wigwam, a building built in just over a month?
...that Chicago City Council alderman Vi Daley has proposed legislation that banks be forbidden to open within 600 feet (180 m) of each other?
...that Lucien Lagrange Architects has been involved in attempts to renovate Union Station in Chicago, Illinois for over twenty years?

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