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Chicago is themost populous city in the U.S. state ofIllinois and in theMidwestern United States. Located on the western shore ofLake Michigan, it is thethird-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 2.74 million at the2020 census. TheChicago metropolitan area has 9.41 million residents and is thethird-largest metropolitan area in the country. Chicago is theseat ofCook County, thesecond-most populous county in the U.S.

Chicago is an international hub for finance,culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications, andtransportation. It has the largest and most diverse financederivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume incommodities andfinancial futures alone.O'Hare International Airport is routinely ranked among theworld'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 highestgross domestic products (GDP) of any urban region in the world, ranking sixth globally, generating over $919 billion in 2024.Chicago's economy isdiverse, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. (Full article...)

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Lane Technical College Preparatory High School (also known asLane Tech), is a public, four-year,magnet high school located on thenorth side ofChicago. Lane is one of the oldest schools in the city and has an enrollment of over four thousand students. Lane is a selective-enrollment-based school in which students must take a test and pass a certain benchmark in order to be offered admission. As a result of consistent victories in the fields of sports and academics, the school is known as the "School of Champions". Lane has also produced morePh.D. holders than any other high school in the country.

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Image 1An aerial view ofNavy Pier located in theStreeterville neighborhood, one of the most visited attractions in theMidwestern United States. (fromChicago)
Image 2Daley Plaza and theChicago Picasso, withCity Hall-County Building visible in background. At right, theDaley Center contains the state law courts. (fromChicago)
Image 3Court of Honor at theWorld's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (fromChicago)
Image 4Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (fromChicago)
Image 5TheChicago Half Marathon onLake Shore Drive on the South Side (fromChicago)
Image 6TheField Museum of Natural History (fromChicago)
Image 7Chicago Theatre (fromChicago)
Image 8TheChicago Picasso (1967) inspired a new era in urban public art. (fromChicago)
Image 9AChicago-style deep-dish pizza (fromChicago)
Image 10People walking aroundBuckingham Fountain to attend a rally (2013) (fromCulture of Chicago)
Image 11A satellite image of Chicago (fromChicago)
Image 12The Chicago River during theJanuary 2014 cold wave (fromChicago)
Image 13Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs (fromCulture of Chicago)
Image 14An aerial photo of theJane Byrne Interchange (2022) after reconstruction. It initially opened in the 1960s. (fromChicago)
Image 15Nature Boardwalk atLincoln Park Zoo on the North Side (fromChicago)
Image 16Home Insurance Building (1885) (fromChicago)
Image 17Ethnic origins in Chicago (fromChicago)
Image 18The main hall of the Field Museum of Natural History in 2007, withSue the T. rex in the foreground (fromCulture of Chicago)
Image 19TheChicago Board of Trade Building (fromChicago)
Image 20Willie Dixon (fromCulture of Chicago)
Image 21The Chicago Picasso (fromCulture of Chicago)
Image 22Prentice Women's Hospital on theNorthwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus (fromChicago)
Image 23Aerial view of theChicago Loop in 2012 (fromChicago)
Image 24Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront (fromChicago)
Image 25AnAmtrak train on theEmpire Builder route departs Chicago fromUnion Station. (fromChicago)
Image 26Flag of Chicago (fromCulture of Chicago)
Image 27Protesters inGrant Park outside the1968 Democratic National Convention (fromChicago)
Image 28TraditionalPotawatomi regalia on display at theField Museum of Natural History (fromChicago)
Image 29The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower (fromCulture of Chicago)
Image 30Illustration of theGreat Chicago Fire (fromChicago)
Image 31Chicago-style hot dog (fromCulture of Chicago)
Image 32TheUniversity of Chicago campus as seen from theMidway Plaisance (fromChicago)
Image 33Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears (fromCulture of Chicago)
Image 34Replica ofDaniel Chester French'sStatue of The Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition (fromChicago)
Image 35Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people:⬤ White⬤ Black⬤ Asian⬤ Hispanic⬤ Other (fromChicago)
Image 36Chicago Theatre (fromCulture of Chicago)
Image 37Chicago was home ofThe Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011, and of other Harpo Production operations until 2015. (fromChicago)
Image 38Chicago tenants picket against rent increases (March 1920) (fromChicago)
Image 39When it was opened in 1991, the centralHarold Washington Library appeared inGuinness World Records as the largest municipal public library building in the world. (fromChicago)
Image 40Community areas of Chicago (fromChicago)
Image 41Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States. (fromChicago)
Image 42Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along theChicago River andLake Michigan. (fromChicago)
Image 431855daguerreotype attributed toAlexander Hesler of the Cook County Court House and City Hall. Believed to be the oldest surviving photograph taken in Chicago. (fromChicago)
Image 44Buckingham Fountain is inGrant Park in theLoop. (fromChicago)
Image 45AFord Explorer SUV as aChicago Police Department vehicle, 2021 (fromChicago)
Image 46Jay Pritzker Pavilion (fromChicago)
Image 47APolish market in Chicago (fromChicago)
Image 48TheChicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of theChicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window. (fromChicago)
Image 49WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station. (fromChicago)
Image 50Men outside a soup kitchen during theGreat Depression (1931) (fromChicago)
Image 51O'Hare International Airport (fromChicago)

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TheChicago Marathon, one of the fiveWorld Marathon Majors, has been contested by men and women annually since 1977. Since 1983, it has been held annually in October. Although four-time winnerKhalid Khannouchi represented the United States during his 2000 and 2002 victories after becoming an American citizen, the last American-born male winner wasGreg Meyer. 1979 winner Laura Michalek of the United States was just 15 years old. Khannouchi's four victories is the most by any contestant. There have been several two-time winners including Khannouchi, five men and six women. Four of the five male two-time winners have been consecutive winners, and six of the seven two-time female victors have been consecutive. No one other than Khannouchi has won three races and no one has won three consecutively. There have been two male and two female world records for the fastestmarathon time set in the race. (Read more...)

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... that despite beingrivals since the 1920s, the2010 NFC Championship Game was only the second time theChicago Bears andGreen Bay Packers had ever met in theplayoffs?
... that the art of a reclusive Chicago janitor,Henry Darger, was discovered and popularized by his former landlords?
... thata tornado near Chicago was produced by a storm with ahydrodynamical helicity four times higher than the threshold favorable fortornadogenesis?
... that bothChristian Albright andDe'Montre Tuggle were born on the same day, named second-team all-Mid-American Conference in 2020, signed with theChicago Bears in 2022, and debuted in theCFL in 2023?
... that, in a 15-day span,Hurles Scales was released by theSt. Louis Cardinals, signed by theChicago Bears, released by the Bears, and signed by the Cardinals?
... thatavery r. young became the first poet laureate of Chicago in 2023?
... that four course records were broken during the2023 Chicago Marathon?
... that despite her father wanting her to become a music teacher,Marcia Moore ran away to Chicago to star insilent film,vaudeville,cabaret, andburlesque performances?

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Sandra Cisneros is aChicana writer best known for her acclaimed first novelThe House on Mango Street (1984) and her subsequent short story collectionWoman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Her work experiments with literary forms and investigates emerging subject positions, which Cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and is regarded as a key figure inChicana literature. Cisneros's early life provided many experiences she would later draw on as a writer: she grew up as the only daughter in a family of six brothers, which often made her feel isolated, and the constant migration of her family between Mexico and the USA instilled in her the sense of "always straddling two countries ... but not belonging to either culture." Cisneros's work deals with the formation of Chicana identity, exploring the challenges of being caught between Mexican and Anglo-American cultures, facing the misogynist attitudes present in both these cultures, and experiencing poverty. For her insightful social critique and powerful prose style, Cisneros has achieved recognition far beyond Chicano and Latino communities, to the extent thatThe House on Mango Street has been translated worldwide and is taught in American classrooms as a coming-of-age novel. Cisneros has held a variety of professional positions, working as a teacher, a counselor, a college recruiter, a poet-in-the-schools, and an arts administrator, and has maintained a strong commitment to community and literary causes. In 1998 she established the Macondo Foundation, which provides socially conscious workshops for writers, and in 2000 she founded the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation, which awards talented writers connected to Texas.

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TheWigwam was a convention center and meeting hall that served as the site of the1860 Republican National Convention. It was located inChicago,Illinois at Lake Street and Market (laterWacker Drive) near the Chicago River. This site had previously been the site of theSauganash Hotel, Chicago's first hotel. This is where supporters usheredAbraham Lincoln to the party nomination and the eventualU.S. Presidency. The location at Lake and Wacker was designated aChicago Landmark on November 6, 2002. The term Wigwam has also been associated with host locations for both the1864 Democratic National Convention and the1892 Democratic National Convention, which were hosted in Chicago.

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"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here." —Oprah Winfrey

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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•Pope Leo XIV•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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...thatMan Enters the Cosmos (pictured) is one of fourHenry Moore sculptures inChicago, two of which are atNational Historic Landmarks?
...theSouth side ofChicago hosted a Black Renaissance that paralleled theHarlem Renaissance?
...that theChicago race riot of 1919, which resulted in 38 deaths, 537 injuries and approximately 1,000 displaced, was the worst riot of theRed Summer of 1919?
...that duringTed Snyder's six year tenure asdean of theUniversity of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the business school has relocated two of its fourcampuses?

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