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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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Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes. It emerged in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of African influence. The blues influenced later American and Western popular music, as it became the roots of jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, hip-hop, and other popular music forms.

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

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This is a comprehensive list of awards and nominations won by Kanye West, an American rapper. West's debut album, The College Dropout (2004), earned him the Best Rap Album at the 2005 Grammy Awards, three MOBO Awards, and Best New Artist at the BET Awards. His second album, Late Registration (2005), earned him seven Grammy nominations, two nominations at the BRIT Awards, and Best Rapper at the Vibe Music Awards. "Stronger", the second single from his third album, Graduation (2007), won Best Video at the MOBO Awards, a Best Video of the Year nomination at the MTV Video Music Awards, and a Video Star nomination at the MTV Europe Music Awards. Since beginning his career, West has received thirty awards amongst 100 nominations. (Read more...)

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... that Chicago-style barbecue is cooked in an aquarium smoker?
... that a "frustration walk" connected Chicago Union Station with the rapid transit Canal station?
... that YouTuber Joey Santore is known for his "Bill Swerski–esque" Chicago accent and use of profanity on his channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't?
... 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 the Chicago Community Bond Fund sought to put itself out of business by eliminating cash bail?
... that tickets of the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad could be purchased for Bellwood station at a local drug store?
... that following a 1964 police raid on a gay bar, Chicago newspapers published the names and personal information of several of those arrested?
... 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?

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Jeannette Ridlon Piccard was an American teacher, scientist, priest, and aeronaut who was a pioneer of balloon flight. A member of the famed Piccard family of balloonists and of the International Space Hall of Fame, she was the first licensed female balloon pilot, the first woman to fly to the stratosphere, and a speaker for NASA. Her 1934 flight held the women's altitude record for three decades. Called a woman of causes and irrepressible, Piccard is remembered as one of the Philadelphia Eleven, the first women to be ordained Episcopalian priests.

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The Chicago Board of Trade Building houses the Chicago Board of Trade, the world's largest futures and options exchange. It is located at 141 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, in the Chicago Loop community area. First designated a Chicago Landmark on May 4, 1977, the building was subsequently listed as a National Historic Landmark on June 2, 1978. The building was then added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 16, 1978. The tallest building in Chicago for over 35 years the structure is known for its art-deco architecture, sculptures and large scale stone carving, as well as large trading floors. A popular sightseeing attraction and motion picture location, the building has won awards for preservation efforts and office management. The Chicago Board of Trade occupies 33 percent of available space, with financial and trading concerns occupying 54 percent of the 3-building complex. The landmark has been the site of a number of visits by dignitaries, including the Prince of Wales in October 1977. Trading operations have been used as scenes in movies such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and the streetscape in the LaSalle Street canyon is used in the movies The Untouchables and Road to Perdition.

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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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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 Man Enters the Cosmos (pictured) is one of four Henry Moore sculptures in Chicago, two of which are at National Historic Landmarks?
...the South side of Chicago hosted a Black Renaissance that paralleled the Harlem Renaissance?
...that the Chicago race riot of 1919, which resulted in 38 deaths, 537 injuries and approximately 1,000 displaced, was the worst riot of the Red Summer of 1919?
...that during Ted Snyder's six year tenure as dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the business school has relocated two of its four campuses?

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