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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 in 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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Chasing Vermeer is a 2004 children's art mystery novel written by Blue Balliett and illustrated by Brett Helquist. Set in Hyde Park, Chicago near the University of Chicago, the novel follows two children, Calder Pillay and Petra Andalee. After a famous Johannes Vermeer painting is stolen while they are on the way to their art gallery, Calder and Petra work together to try to recover it. The thief publishes many advertisements in the newspaper, explaining that he will give the painting back if the community can discover which paintings under Vermeer's name were really painted by him. This causes Petra, Calder, and the rest of Hyde Park to examine art more closely. Themes of art, chance, coincidence, deception, and problem-solving are apparent. The novel was written for Balliett's classroom intended to deal with real-world issues. Balliett values children's ideas and wrote the book specifically to highlight that. Chasing Vermeer has won several awards, including the Edgar and the Agatha. In 2006, the sequel entitled The Wright 3 was published, followed by The Calder Game in 2008.

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

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This is a discography for the Smoking Popes, a pop punk band from Lake in the Hills, Illinois. The Smoking Popes have released four studio albums, a compilation album, two live albums, four extended plays (EPs), and seven singles. The group was founded in 1991 by Mike Felumlee (drums) and brothers Matt (bass guitar), Eli (guitar), and Josh Caterer (guitar, vocals). After releasing three independent EPs, the Popes signed with local punk rock record label Johann's Face Records. Johann's Face issued a fourth EP and the Popes' first two studio albums—Get Fired and Born to Quit. EMI subsidiary Capitol Records signed the band and re-released Born to Quit in 1995, yielding a minor hit on punk rock radio stations with "Need You Around". The Smoking Popes released their third album through Capitol in 1997 and broke up the following year. To fulfill their contract with Capitol Records, the band recorded an album of cover songs, which was rejected for release by the label. The Popes were dormant until they reunited in late 2005. The band played a reunion show on November 11, 2005, recording and releasing the concert through Felumlee's Double Zero Records. They are currently working on a fourth studio album for Flameshovel Records.

This list does not include material that members of the Smoking Popes recorded with Duvall or other side projects. (Read more...)

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... that the Dearborn Street Subway had skip-stop service in 1951 for one morning before it was discontinued?
... that Chicago's Kasama is the world's first Filipino restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star?
... that William McAndrew, the superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, was accused of being an agent of George V, King of the United Kingdom?
... that tickets of the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad could be purchased for Bellwood station at a local drug store?
... 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 William Heath Byford performed the first ovariotomy in Chicago in 1860?
... 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 a "frustration walk" connected Chicago Union Station with the rapid transit Canal station?

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Anthony Michael Parker is an American professional basketball player currently with the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Toronto Raptors. After graduating from Bradley University with a major in liberal arts, he entered the 1997 NBA draft and played briefly in the NBA before plying his trade in Europe. There, Parker spent five seasons with Israeli basketball club Maccabi Tel Aviv and one season with Italian club Pallacanestro Virtus Roma. With Maccabi he won five national championships, five national cups, two EuroLeague titles, one SuproLeague title, and was voted two-time consecutive Euroleague Most Valuable Player (MVP). Since returning to the NBA as a free agent in 2006, Parker has established himself as Toronto's starting shooting guard, as well as one of the best three point shooters and perimeter defenders in the NBA. In his first season with the Raptors, Parker helped the team clinch their first ever division title, first NBA playoffs berth in five years, and best regular season record in franchise history.

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The Wigwam was a convention center and meeting hall that served as the site of the 1860 Republican National Convention. It was located in Chicago, Illinois at Lake Street and Market (later Wacker Drive) near the Chicago River. This site had previously been the site of the Sauganash Hotel, Chicago's first hotel. This is where supporters ushered Abraham Lincoln to the party nomination and the eventual U.S. Presidency. The location at Lake and Wacker was designated a Chicago Landmark on November 6, 2002. The term Wigwam has also been associated with host locations for both the 1864 Democratic National Convention and the 1892 Democratic National Convention, which were hosted in Chicago.

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"I have struck a city—a real city—and they call it Chicago… Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages." — Rudyard Kipling

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April 25, 2024 – 2024 NFL draft: The first round of the NFL draft is held in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., with the Chicago Bears taking former USC quarterback Caleb Williams with the first overall pick. (Chicago Tribune)

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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 141 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, the address of the Chicago Board of Trade Building (pictured), has been the address of two different buildings that at one point was the tallest building in Chicago?
...that William W. Powers State Recreation Area's Wolf Lake co-hosted a BioBlitz by over 150 scientists who unofficially counted 1,815 species in a day?
...that after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the population of the neighboring Hyde Park Township exceeded that of the devastated city of Chicago?
...that all four deaths in the thirty annual Chicago Marathons have occurred in the last ten years?

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