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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 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, 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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Haystacks is the title of a series of impressionist paintings by Claude Monet. The primary subjects of all of the paintings in the series are stacks of grain that have been stacked in the field after the harvest season. The title refers primarily to a twenty-five canvas series (Wildenstein Index Number 1266-1290) begun the fall of 1890 and continued through the following spring, using that year's grain harvest. Some use a broader definition of the title to refer to other paintings by Monet with this same theme. The series is known for its thematic use of repetition to show differences in perception of light across various times of day, seasons, and types of weather. The subjects were painted in fields near Monet's home in Giverny, France. The series is among Monet's most notable works. Although the largest collections of Monet's work are held in Paris at the Musée d'Orsay and Musée Marmottan Monet, Boston, Massachusetts at the Museum of Fine Arts, New York City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art and Tokyo at the National Museum of Western Art, six of the twenty-five haystacks pieces are currently housed at the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, United States holds two, and The Louvre in Paris, France holds one. Other museums that hold parts of this series in their collection include the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut, National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Minneapolis Institute of Arts in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, Kunsthaus Zürich in Zürich, Switzerland, and Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, United States. Several private collections also hold Haystack paintings.

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

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This list of tallest buildings in Chicago ranks skyscrapers in the U.S. city of Chicago, Illinois by height. The tallest building in Chicago is the 108-story Sears Tower, which rises 1,451 feet (442 m) in the Chicago Loop and was completed in 1974. It also stands among the tallest buildings in the United States, and the world. In addition, the Sears Tower had the most floors of any completed building in the world, and stood as the world's tallest completed skyscraper when measuring to pinnacle height, rising 1,730 feet (527 m) with the addition of its western antenna. The second- and third-tallest buildings in Chicago are the Aon Center and the John Hancock Center, respectively. As of June 2008^[update], the John Hancock Center, with 49 floors of condominiums, held the world record for the highest residence. In addition, Chicago has several buildings containing at least 100 floors. (Read more...)

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... that both Christian Albright and De'Montre Tuggle were born on the same day, named second-team all-Mid-American Conference in 2020, signed with the Chicago Bears in 2022, and debuted in the CFL in 2023?
... that following a 1964 police raid on a gay bar, Chicago newspapers published the names and personal information of several of those arrested?
... that William Heath Byford performed the first ovariotomy in Chicago in 1860?
... that a "frustration walk" connected Chicago Union Station with the rapid transit Canal station?
... 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 Zenith Data Systems unveiled their SupersPort laptop at a Chicago show that featured helmeted performers and motorcyclists?
... 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 a tornado near Chicago was produced by a storm with a hydrodynamical helicity four times higher than the threshold favorable for tornadogenesis?

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Ninian Edwards was a founding political figure of the U.S. state of Illinois. He served as the first and only governor of the Illinois Territory from 1809 to 1818, as one of the first two United States Senators from Illinois from 1818 to 1824, and as the third Governor of Illinois from 1826 to 1830. In a time and place where personal coalitions were more influential than parties, Edwards led one of the two main factions in frontier Illinois politics. Born in Maryland, Edwards began his political career in Kentucky, where he served as a legislator and judge. He rose to the position of Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1808, at the time Kentucky's highest court. In 1809, U.S. President James Madison appointed him to govern the newly created Illinois Territory. He held that post for three terms, overseeing the territory's transition first to democratic "second grade" government, and then to statehood in 1818. On its second day in session, the Illinois General Assembly elected Edwards to the U.S. Senate, where conflict with political rivals damaged him politically. Edwards won an unlikely 1826 election to become Governor of Illinois. Conflict with the legislature over state bank regulations marked Edwards' administration, as did the pursuit of Indian removal. As governor or territorial governor he twice sent Illinois militia against Native Americans, in the Peoria and Winnebago Wars, and signed treaties for the cession of Native American land. Edwards returned to private life when his term ended in 1830 and died of cholera two years later.

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The Isidore H. Heller House is a house located at 5132 Woodlawn Avenue in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The house was designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The design is credited as one of the turning points in Wright's shift to geometric, Prairie School architecture, which is defined by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands, and an integration with the landscape, which is meant to evoke native Prairie surroundings. The work demonstrates Wright's shift away from emulating the style of his mentor, Louis Sullivan. Richard Bock, a Wright collaborator and sculptor, provided some of the ornamentation, including a plaster frieze. The ownership history of this building demonstrates the property's evolution and development in the framework of surrounding Hyde Park buildings, and the building's location in the current community—near other Prairie School architecture—includes this building into the overall body of Lloyd Wright's work. The Heller House was designated a Chicago Landmark on September 15, 1971, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972. On 18 August 2004, the U.S. Department of the Interior designated the house a National Historic Landmark.

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"[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a “world” city, more European in some respects than American." — John Gunther

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December 2, 2024 –: Three people are killed and eight others are injured after a mass shooting at a gathering in Gage Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States. (NBC News)

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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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