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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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Super Bowl XLI was an American football game played on February 4, 2007, at Dolphin Stadium to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion following the 2006 regular season. The American Football Conference (AFC) champion Indianapolis Colts (16-4) defeated the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Chicago Bears (15-4), 29-17. Colts quarterback Peyton Manning was named the game's Most Valuable Player, completing 25 of 38 passes for 247 yards and a touchdown, with one interception. This was Peyton Manning's first Super Bowl title after being one of the league's most dominant quarterbacks for some eight years. Nielsen Media Research reported 93 million viewers for Super Bowl XLI, making it the fourth most-watched program in U.S. television history (trailing only the M*A*S*H finale and Super Bowls XLII and XXX). This game featured two teams ending long Super Bowl appearance droughts. The Colts made their first appearance in a Super Bowl game since winning Super Bowl V in the 1970 season during the team's tenure in Baltimore; they moved to Indianapolis in 1984. Meanwhile, the Bears made their first appearance since winning Super Bowl XX in the 1985 season. It was only the second time that two pre-expansion era (pre 1960) teams met in the Super Bowl. The first was Super Bowl XIV between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Los Angeles Rams.

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Image 1Chicago-style hot dog (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 2The Chicago Picasso (1967) inspired a new era in urban public art. (from Chicago)
Image 3Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people: ⬤ White ⬤ Black ⬤ Asian ⬤ Hispanic ⬤ Other (from Chicago)
Image 4The University of Chicago campus as seen from the Midway Plaisance (from Chicago)
Image 5Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931) (from Chicago)
Image 6Home Insurance Building (1885) (from Chicago)
Image 7The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window. (from Chicago)
Image 8An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (from Chicago)
Image 9When 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 10Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus (from Chicago)
Image 11Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011 and other Harpo Production operations until 2015. (from Chicago)
Image 12The Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 13The Chicago Picasso (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 14Chicago Theatre (from Chicago)
Image 15Community areas of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 16Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of The Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition (from Chicago)
Image 17Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (from Chicago)
Image 18The Chicago River during the January 2014 cold wave (from Chicago)
Image 19Chicago Theatre (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 20The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 21Chicago-style deep-dish pizza (from Chicago)
Image 22Daley 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 23Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 24A satellite image of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 25Jay Pritzker Pavilion (from Chicago)
Image 26"Chicago" by Carl Sandburg (from Chicago)
Image 27WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station. (from Chicago)
Image 28Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States. (from Chicago)
Image 29Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront (from Chicago)
Image 30The Chicago Board of Trade Building (from Chicago)
Image 31Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 32Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. (from Chicago)
Image 33Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station. (from Chicago)
Image 34Buckingham Fountain is located in Grant Park in the Loop (from Chicago)
Image 35Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 36Chicago tenants picket against rent increases (March 1920) (from Chicago)
Image 37People walking around Buckingham Fountain to attend a rally (2013) (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 38Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange (2022) after reconstruction, initially opened in the 1960s (from Chicago)
Image 39Aerial view of Navy Pier located in the Streeterville neighborhood, one of the most visited attractions in the Midwestern United States. (from Chicago)
Image 40Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention (from Chicago)
Image 41Aerial view of the Chicago Loop in 2012 (from Chicago)
Image 42Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side (from Chicago)
Image 43Ford Explorer SUV as a Chicago Police Department vehicle, 2021 (from Chicago)
Image 44Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 45Ethnic origins in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 46Nature Boardwalk at the Lincoln Park Zoo, North Side (from Chicago)
Image 47O'Hare International Airport (from Chicago)
Image 48A Polish market in Chicago (from 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 50Willie Dixon (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 51Flag of Chicago (from Culture of Chicago)

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The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). The club was founded in 1926 as one of the league's first American franchises, joining in the same year as the New York Rangers and the Detroit Red Wings. Owing to the Blackhawks' long history, they are considered one of the NHL's "Original Six" teams—a term reserved for the six teams that comprised the NHL from the 1942–43 season until the league expanded in 1967. The Blackhawks have won the Stanley Cup three times in their 83-year history. Charlie Gardiner, the team's goaltender for its first Stanley Cup win in 1934, became the first European-born captain—and still the only goaltender captain—to win the Stanley Cup. Stan Mikita is the franchise leader in assists (926) and points (1467), and Bobby Hull is the leader in goals (604). Chris Chelios is the franchise leader in penalty minutes (1495). Goaltender Tony Esposito is the club's all-time leader in wins (873) and shutouts (74). Dick Irvin was named the first captain in 1926. The current captain, Jonathan Toews, was the third-youngest captain in NHL history at the time of his selection. (Read more...)

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... 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 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 the Chicago Community Bond Fund sought to put itself out of business by eliminating cash bail?
... that the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Sports Illustrated have all profiled the smallest TV station in the United States?
... that some regular users of the Schiller Woods magic water pump near Chicago believe that it was covertly blessed by Pope John Paul II in 1979?
... that Chicago Radio public address systems were used extensively by the pro-independence Indian National Congress during the British Raj?
... that kids could fight the Great Chicago Fire at Freedomland U.S.A.?
... that decades after its closure, the station house of the Chicago "L"'s Madison station would house a hot dog stand?

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Brian Keith Urlacher is an American football player for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. Urlacher, an alumnus of the University of New Mexico, is a six-time Pro Bowl player and has established himself as one of the NFL's most productive linebackers. He is regarded as one of the best defensive players in the NFL, winning the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Award in 2000 and the NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award in 2005, becoming only the fifth player in NFL history to win both awards.

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The Rookery Building is an historic landmark located in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Completed by John Wellborn Root and Daniel Burnham of Burnham and Root in 1888, it is considered one of their masterpiece buildings and once housed the office of the famous architects. It measures 181 feet (55 m), is twelve stories tall and is considered the oldest standing high-rise in Chicago. It has a unique style with exterior load-bearing walls and an interior steel frame. The lobby was remodeled in 1907 by Frank Lloyd Wright. Starting in 1989, the lobby was again restored to the original Wright design. The building was designated a Chicago Landmark on July 5, 1972. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 17, 1970 and listed as a National Historic Landmark on May 15, 1975. The name Rookery comes from the previous building on the property which became home to many birds, especially pigeons.

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"Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos." — Ben Hecht

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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 the Heller House (pictured) marked a turning point in Frank Lloyd Wright's shift to Prairie School architecture?
...that on an average day, 1.6 million rides are taken on the CTA?
...that Garland Rivers was the only true freshman to earn a varsity letter on the 1983 Michigan Wolverines football team?
...that architect, former partner at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, and founder of Lucien Lagrange Architects, Lucien Lagrange was a high school dropout?
...that the Marshall Field and Company Building has three separate atria?

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