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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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Wilco is an American rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure from the band. Wilco's lineup has changed frequently, with only singer Jeff Tweedy and bassist John Stirratt remaining from the original incarnation. The other current members are guitarist Nels Cline, multi-instrumentalists Pat Sansone and Mikael Jorgensen, and drummer Glenn Kotche. Wilco has released six studio albums, a live double album, and three collaborations: two with Billy Bragg, and one with The Minus 5. Wilco garnered media attention for its fourth album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002), and the controversy surrounding it. After the recording sessions were complete, Reprise Records rejected the album and dismissed Wilco from the label. As part of a buy-out deal, Reprise gave Wilco the rights to the album for free. After streaming Foxtrot on its website, Wilco sold the album to Nonesuch Records in 2002. Both record labels are subsidiaries of Warner Music Group, leading one critic to say that the album showed "how screwed up the music business [was] in the early twenty-first century." The album was the most successful of Wilco's career, selling over 590,000 copies. Wilco won two Grammy Awards for their fifth studio album, 2004's A Ghost Is Born, including Best Alternative Music Album.

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Image 1The Chicago Board of Trade Building (from Chicago)
Image 2Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States. (from Chicago)
Image 3Chicago Theatre (from Chicago)
Image 4Chicago tenants picket against rent increases (March 1920) (from Chicago)
Image 5Chicago-style hot dog (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 6The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window. (from Chicago)
Image 7Community areas of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 8Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront (from Chicago)
Image 9Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (from Chicago)
Image 10People walking around Buckingham Fountain to attend a rally (2013) (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 11Daley 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 12Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 13Nature Boardwalk at the Lincoln Park Zoo, North Side (from Chicago)
Image 14Jay Pritzker Pavilion (from Chicago)
Image 15Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 16A Polish market in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 17When 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 18Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 19Aerial view of the Chicago Loop in 2012 (from Chicago)
Image 20The Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 21Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. (from Chicago)
Image 22Ford Explorer SUV as a Chicago Police Department vehicle, 2021 (from Chicago)
Image 23Aerial view of Navy Pier located in the Streeterville neighborhood, one of the most visited attractions in the Midwestern United States. (from Chicago)
Image 24Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station. (from Chicago)
Image 25Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931) (from Chicago)
Image 26Chicago-style deep-dish pizza (from Chicago)
Image 27Willie Dixon (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 28Home Insurance Building (1885) (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 30The University of Chicago campus as seen from the Midway Plaisance (from Chicago)
Image 31"Chicago" by Carl Sandburg (from Chicago)
Image 32Ethnic origins in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 33Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention (from Chicago)
Image 34Buckingham Fountain is located in Grant Park in the Loop (from Chicago)
Image 35The Chicago River during the January 2014 cold wave (from Chicago)
Image 36Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus (from Chicago)
Image 37A satellite image of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 38O'Hare International Airport (from Chicago)
Image 39The Chicago Picasso (1967) inspired a new era in urban public art. (from Chicago)
Image 40Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of The Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition (from Chicago)
Image 41Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011 and other Harpo Production operations until 2015. (from Chicago)
Image 42Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side (from Chicago)
Image 43Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people: ⬤ White ⬤ Black ⬤ Asian ⬤ Hispanic ⬤ Other (from Chicago)
Image 44Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 45Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange (2022) after reconstruction, initially opened in the 1960s (from Chicago)
Image 46Flag of Chicago (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 47The Chicago Picasso (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 48The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 49An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (from Chicago)
Image 50The main hall of the Field Museum of Natural History in 2007, with Sue the T. rex in the foreground (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 51Chicago Theatre (from Culture of 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 Manny's Deli in Chicago received national recognition for its popularity among politicians, including Barack Obama?
... that the Chicago Community Bond Fund sought to put itself out of business by eliminating cash bail?
... that following a 1964 police raid on a gay bar, Chicago newspapers published the names and personal information of several of those arrested?
... that Chicago's Marshfield station had four tracks and three platforms, and involved three branch lines and an interurban?
... that Chicago's Kasama is the world's first Filipino restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star?
... that William Heath Byford performed the first ovariotomy in Chicago in 1860?
... that Chow Leung started a language school for children in Chicago before writing Chinese Fables and Folk Stories with Mary Hayes Davis?
... that 900 West Randolph, Chicago's first high-rise building built by a black-owned construction firm, has penthouses that can be rented for over $20,000 per month?

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Jason Jones is a game developer and programmer who co-founded video game studio Bungie with Alex Seropian in 1991. Jones began programming on Apple computers in high school, assembling a multiplayer game called Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete. While attending the University of Chicago Jones met Seropian and the two formed a partnership to publish Minotaur. Following the modest success of Minotaur, Jones programmed Bungie's next game, Pathways Into Darkness, and worked on code, level design and story development for Bungie's Marathon and Myth series. For Bungie's next projects, Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2, Jones took on a more managerial role as project lead. He is currently working on an unannounced video game series.

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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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"Being a [Chicago] Cubs fan prepares you for life—and Washington." — Hillary Clinton

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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 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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