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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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108 North State Street, also known as Block 37, is a development located in the Loop community area of downtown Chicago, Illinois. It is located on the square block bounded clockwise from the North by West Randolph Street, North State Street, West Washington Street and North Dearborn Street that is known as "Block 37", which was its designated number as one of the original 58 blocks of the city. Above-ground redevelopment is complete, but work stopped on underground public transit facilities when they were only partially complete.

The previous buildings on the block were demolished in 1989 for a hotly contested redevelopment plan under the then new Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. The debates included the demolition of the Chicago Landmark McCarthy Building, which proceeded after the Illinois Supreme Court decided private preservation groups did not have standing to challenge the city's decision. Once the site was cleared, the initial redevelopment plan fell through, as did several subsequent plans, leaving the block vacant and undeveloped. Financial difficulties continued even after construction began in 2006, but the three new buildings were completed in 2016.

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Image 1O'Hare International Airport (from Chicago)
Image 2The University of Chicago campus as seen from the Midway Plaisance (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 4Chicago tenants picket against rent increases (March 1920) (from Chicago)
Image 5Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention (from Chicago)
Image 6Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of The Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition (from Chicago)
Image 7Jay Pritzker Pavilion (from Chicago)
Image 8Aerial view of the Chicago Loop in 2012 (from Chicago)
Image 9Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side (from Chicago)
Image 10Chicago-style deep-dish pizza (from Chicago)
Image 11Buckingham Fountain is located in Grant Park in the Loop (from Chicago)
Image 12Willie Dixon (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 13Nature Boardwalk at the Lincoln Park Zoo, North Side (from Chicago)
Image 14A Polish market in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 15Daley 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 16The main hall of the Field Museum of Natural History in 2007, with Sue the T. rex in the foreground (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 17Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. (from Chicago)
Image 18Flag of Chicago (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 19The Chicago Picasso (1967) inspired a new era in urban public art. (from Chicago)
Image 20Chicago Theatre (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 21The Chicago River during the January 2014 cold wave (from Chicago)
Image 22People walking around Buckingham Fountain to attend a rally (2013) (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 23The Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 24Ford Explorer SUV as a Chicago Police Department vehicle, 2021 (from Chicago)
Image 25Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 26WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station. (from Chicago)
Image 27Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station. (from Chicago)
Image 28The Chicago Board of Trade Building (from Chicago)
Image 29Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 30Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus (from Chicago)
Image 31Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront (from Chicago)
Image 32Chicago Theatre (from Chicago)
Image 33Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange (2022) after reconstruction, initially opened in the 1960s (from Chicago)
Image 34An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (from Chicago)
Image 35The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window. (from Chicago)
Image 36Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011 and other Harpo Production operations until 2015. (from Chicago)
Image 37Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States. (from Chicago)
Image 38Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 39A satellite image of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 40Home Insurance Building (1885) (from Chicago)
Image 41The Chicago Picasso (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 42Community areas of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 43The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 44When 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 45Ethnic origins in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 46Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931) (from Chicago)
Image 47Chicago-style hot dog (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 48Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 49Aerial view of Navy Pier located in the Streeterville neighborhood, one of the most visited attractions in the Midwestern United States. (from Chicago)
Image 50Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (from Chicago)
Image 51"Chicago" by Carl Sandburg (from Chicago)

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The American author Dan Savage (born 1964) has written six books, op-ed pieces in The New York Times, and an advice column on sexual issues in The Stranger (an alternative newspaper from Seattle, Washington). A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Savage began contributing a column, Savage Love, to The Stranger from its inception in 1991. By 1998 his column had a readership of four million. He was Associate Editor at the newspaper from 1991 to 2001, when he became its editor-in-chief, later becoming its editorial director in 2007. Savage's books have had successful sales results and have been generally well received. Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist was published in 1998 and features selections from his advice column. His next book The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant was published in 1999, and recounts his experiences with his boyfriend whilst deciding to adopt a child. The book received a PEN West Award for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction, and an Off-Broadway musical based on the work was the recipient of the BMI Foundation Jerry Bock Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre. Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America, published in 2002, describes the author's experiences indulging in the seven deadly sins. The book was featured in The Best American Sex Writing 2004, and won a Lambda Literary Award. Savage's 2005 book The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family, recounting his personal experience deciding to marry his partner Terry Miller and analyzing same-sex marriage, reached The New York Times Best Seller list, and Nielsen BookScan noted it sold approximately 300,000 copies. After founding the It Gets Better Project in 2010 to reach out to teenagers after incidents of suicide among LGBT youth, his edited compilation of submissions It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living was published in 2011. The book features notable contributors, including David Sedaris, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. Sales of the book were successful, and IndieBound reported it reached a list of best-sellers in the United States less than one week after publication. It reached 16th on The New York Times Best Seller list in April 2011. Savage collaborated with Lindy West, Christopher Frizzelle, and Bethany Jean Clement on a college guide, How to Be a Person, which was published in 2012. His 2013 book American Savage reflects on Savage's experiences throughout the founding of the It Gets Better Project and was well received by The Washington Post and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. (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 the Chicago Police Department regularly cited vehicles of the Philippine consulate general in Chicago for parking in a no-parking zone, causing a diplomatic incident?
... that Chicago's Kasama is the world's first Filipino restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star?
... that the Chicago "L"'s Laflin station had an elevator for caskets?
... that Chow Leung started a language school for children in Chicago before writing Chinese Fables and Folk Stories with Mary Hayes Davis?
... that 900 West Randolph, Chicago's first high-rise building built by a black-owned construction firm, has penthouses that can be rented for over $20,000 per month?
... that Leander Schnerr survived the Great Chicago Fire and subsequently became the archabbot of Saint Vincent Archabbey?
... that Red Blanchard, the owner of Iowa radio station KSMN, commuted 800 miles (1280 km) by plane from Mason City each week to host a radio show in Chicago?

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Otto Everett Graham, Jr. (1921–2003) was an American football quarterback who played for the Cleveland Browns in the All-America Football Conference and National Football League. Graham is regarded by critics as one of the most dominant players of his era, having taken the Browns to league championship games every year between 1946 and 1955, winning seven of them. With Graham at quarterback, the Browns posted a record of 114 wins, 20 losses and four ties, including a 9–3 win–loss record in the playoffs. While most of Graham's statistical records have been surpassed in the modern era, he still holds the NFL record for career average yards gained per pass attempt, with nine. Long-time New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, a friend of Graham's, once called him "as great of a quarterback as there ever was." Graham grew up in Waukegan, Illinois, the son of music teachers. He entered Northwestern University in 1940 on a basketball scholarship, but football soon became his main sport. After a brief stint in the military at the end of World War II, Graham played during the 1946 season for the National Basketball League's Rochester Royals, who won the league championship that year. Paul Brown, Cleveland's coach, signed Graham to play for the Browns, where he thrived. After he left football in 1955, Graham coached college teams in the College All-Star Game and became head football coach at the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut. After seven years at the academy, he spent three unsuccessful seasons as head coach of the Washington Redskins. Following his resignation, he returned to the Coast Guard Academy, where he served as athletic director until his retirement in 1984. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1965.

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Washington Park Court District is a Grand Boulevard community area neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on October 2, 1991. Despite its name, it is not located within either the Washington Park community area or the Washington Park park, but is one block north of both. The district was named for the Park. The district includes row houses built between 1895 and 1905, with addresses of 4900–4959 South Washington Park Court and 417–439 East 50th Street. Many of the houses share architectural features. The neighborhood was part of the early twentieth century segregationist racial covenant wave that swept Chicago following the Great Migration. The community area has continued to be almost exclusively African American since the 1930s.

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"Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood." — Norman Mailer

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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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