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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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The Chicago Spire was a planned supertall skyscraper that began construction in Chicago, Illinois. The skyscraper would have stood taller than Chicago's Sears Tower and New York's upcoming Freedom Tower, as well as Toronto's CN Tower, thereby becoming North America's tallest free-standing structure and the world's tallest all-residential building. The building was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and was being developed by Garrett Kelleher of Shelbourne Development Group, Inc. Originally announced in July of 2005 by Christopher T. Carley of the Fordham Company, the project was supported by many Chicagoans and city officials. After several months of development, Carley failed to acquire necessary financing and the project was taken over by Garrett Kelleher of the Shelbourne Development Group. Since that time, three major revisions were made to the design. After the initial construction began and then stopped, the project was eventually transferred to developer Related Midwest, which in 2014 announced the project would not be completed.

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Image 1The Chicago Picasso (1967) inspired a new era in urban public art. (from Chicago)
Image 2Jay Pritzker Pavilion (from Chicago)
Image 3Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (from Chicago)
Image 4Community areas of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 5Ethnic origins in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 6Chicago-style hot dog (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 7Willie Dixon (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 8Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront (from Chicago)
Image 9The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 10Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of The Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition (from Chicago)
Image 11Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 12Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931) (from Chicago)
Image 13The Chicago River during the January 2014 cold wave (from Chicago)
Image 14Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. (from Chicago)
Image 15Aerial view of the Chicago Loop in 2012 (from Chicago)
Image 16Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 17WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station. (from Chicago)
Image 18Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus (from Chicago)
Image 19Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 20Nature Boardwalk at the Lincoln Park Zoo, North Side (from Chicago)
Image 21Ford Explorer SUV as a Chicago Police Department vehicle, 2021 (from Chicago)
Image 22Chicago Theatre (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 23A Polish market in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 24The Chicago Board of Trade Building (from Chicago)
Image 25Buckingham Fountain is located in Grant Park in the Loop (from Chicago)
Image 26When 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 27Chicago Theatre (from Chicago)
Image 28The main hall of the Field Museum of Natural History in 2007, with Sue the T. rex in the foreground (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 29"Chicago" by Carl Sandburg (from Chicago)
Image 30O'Hare International Airport (from Chicago)
Image 31Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States. (from Chicago)
Image 32The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window. (from Chicago)
Image 33Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side (from Chicago)
Image 34Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011 and 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 36Home Insurance Building (1885) (from Chicago)
Image 37Chicago tenants picket against rent increases (March 1920) (from Chicago)
Image 38Daley 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 39The Chicago Picasso (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 40Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people: ⬤ White ⬤ Black ⬤ Asian ⬤ Hispanic ⬤ Other (from Chicago)
Image 41A satellite image of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 42An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (from Chicago)
Image 43Flag of Chicago (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 44Chicago-style deep-dish pizza (from Chicago)
Image 45People walking around Buckingham Fountain to attend a rally (2013) (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 46Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange (2022) after reconstruction, initially opened in the 1960s (from Chicago)
Image 47Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 48Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention (from Chicago)
Image 49The University of Chicago campus as seen from the Midway Plaisance (from Chicago)
Image 50Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station. (from Chicago)
Image 51The Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)

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The list of Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters includes initiated and honorary members of Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΆKΆ), the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter sorority established for Black college women.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by nine women who were known as The Original Group of 1908, and seven sophomores, who were accepted as honor initiates and are known as The Sophomores of 1910. Alpha Kappa Alpha serves the community through a membership of more than 200,000 women in over 950 chapters in the United States and several other countries. Membership is extended to female college undergraduate and graduate students. The sorority also bestows honorary membership as the highest honor.

Alpha Kappa Alpha states that since the organization's founding, "the sisterhood of Alpha Kappa Alpha has responded to the world’s increasing complexity. The sorority continues to empower communities through exemplary service initiatives and progressive programs." The sorority celebrated a centennial anniversary on January 15, 2008. (Read more...)

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... 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 tickets of the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad could be purchased for Bellwood station at a local drug store?
... that kids could fight the Great Chicago Fire at Freedomland U.S.A.?
... that William Heath Byford performed the first ovariotomy in Chicago in 1860?
... that from the old Chicago Station, a five-cent fare would get you as far west as California?
... that decades after its closure, the station house of the Chicago "L"'s Madison station would house a hot dog stand?
... that the Chicago "L"'s Laflin station had an elevator for caskets?
... that the Chicago Bears media guide had an asterisk next to the result of the Instant Replay Game for 10 years, noting the team's belief that the game was decided incorrectly?

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Antonin Gregory Scalia (1936–2016) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appointed to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, he came to be described as the intellectual anchor of the Court's conservative wing. Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey, was raised in New York City, attended Georgetown University as an undergraduate, and obtained his law degree from Harvard Law School. After spending six years in a Cleveland law firm, he became a law school professor. In the early 1970s, he served in the Nixon and Ford administrations. He spent most of the Carter years teaching at the University of Chicago, where he became one of the first faculty advisers of the fledgling Federalist Society. In 1982, he was appointed as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by President Reagan. In 1986, Judge Scalia was appointed by Reagan to the Supreme Court to fill the seat as associate justice vacated when Justice William Rehnquist was elevated to Chief Justice. Scalia was unanimously confirmed by the Senate, and took the bench on September 26, 1986. In his nearly three decades on the Court, Justice Scalia staked-out a conservative ideology in his opinions, advocating textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in constitutional interpretation. He was a strong defender of the powers of the Executive Branch, believing presidential power should be paramount in many areas. He opposed affirmative action and other policies that treat minorities as groups. He filed separate opinions in a large number of cases, and, in his minority opinions, often castigated the Court's majority in scathing language.

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The Fabyan Windmill is an authentic, working Dutch windmill dating from the 1850s located in Geneva, Illinois. The 68 feet (21 m), five-story wooden smock mill sits upon the onetime estate of Colonel George Fabyan, but is now part of the Kane County Forest Preserve District. In 1979, the windmill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The following year, the windmill was selected to be on a U.S. postage stamp as part of a series of five American windmills included in a stamp booklet called "WINDMILLS USA". It originally operated as a custom grinding mill

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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 the Arts Club of Chicago (pictured) arose from the success of the Art Institute of Chicago's handling of the Chicago showing of the Armory Show?
...that the Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic is the largest African American parade in the United States?
...the AT&T Corporate Center is the tallest building built in Chicago in the last quarter of the 20th century?
...that Jerrold Wexler helped save a transaction to purchase the Denver Nuggets, helped save Goldblatt's from bankruptcy and led the Drake Hotel to a National Register of Historic Places listing?

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