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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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Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Harris & Harris Theater or most commonly Harris Theater is a 1525-seat theater for the performing arts located along the northern edge of Millennium Park on Randolph Street in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, USA. Constructed from 2002–2003, it is the city's premier performance venue for small and medium sized performance groups. The theater was named for its primary benefactors, Mr & Mrs. Irving Harris. Although the theater was founded to serve as the home to several local mid-sized performance organizations, the theater began offering subscription series of traveling performers in its fifth season.

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

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The list of Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters includes initiated and honorary members of Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΆKΆ), the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter sorority established for Black college women.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by nine women who were known as The Original Group of 1908, and seven sophomores, who were accepted as honor initiates and are known as The Sophomores of 1910. Alpha Kappa Alpha serves the community through a membership of more than 200,000 women in over 950 chapters in the United States and several other countries. Membership is extended to female college undergraduate and graduate students. The sorority also bestows honorary membership as the highest honor.

Alpha Kappa Alpha states that since the organization's founding, "the sisterhood of Alpha Kappa Alpha has responded to the world’s increasing complexity. The sorority continues to empower communities through exemplary service initiatives and progressive programs." The sorority celebrated a centennial anniversary on January 15, 2008. (Read more...)

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... that William Heath Byford performed the first ovariotomy in Chicago in 1860?
... that Univision bought a Chicago TV station that wasn't for sale?
... that the sculpture Chicago Rising from the Lake was meant to show the city's rebirth after the Great Chicago Fire but it went missing twice and was eventually found by a Chicago firefighter?
... 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 Chicago's Marshfield station had four tracks and three platforms, and involved three branch lines and an interurban?
... that a Chicago TV station was expelled from the National Association of Broadcasters by mistake?
... that Chicago's Kasama is the world's first Filipino restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star?
... 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?

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Edward Teller was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb," even though he claimed that he did not care for the title. Teller is best known for his work on the American nuclear program, specifically as a member of the Manhattan Project during World War II, his role in the development of the hydrogen bomb, and his long association with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He achieved infamy in the 1950s due to his controversial testimony in the security clearance hearing of his former Los Alamos colleague J. Robert Oppenheimer, and as such became ostracized from much of the scientific community. He continued to find support from the U.S. government and military research establishment, particularly for his advocacy for nuclear energy development, a strong nuclear arsenal, and a vigorous nuclear testing program. In his later years he became especially known for his advocacy of controversial technological solutions to both military and civilian problems, including a plan to excavate an artificial harbor in Alaska using thermonuclear explosives. He was a vigorous advocate of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, perhaps overselling the feasibility of the program.

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The Chicago Theatre is a famous theater landmark located on North State Street in the Loop community area in the city of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The theater is host to stage plays, magic shows, comedy performances, speeches, and concerts. Although it now emphasizes live performances of popular music, it once served as a motion picture theatre. For several decades, it was the city's premier movie theater. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 6, 1979, and it was listed as a Chicago Landmark on January 28, 1983. The marquee is a Chicago cultural and physical landmark that commonly appears in film, television, artwork, and photography.

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"Chicago—is—oh well a façade of skyscrapers facing a lake, and behind the façade every type of dubiousness." — E. M. Forster

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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 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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