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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 South Side is a major part of the city of Chicago, which is located in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Much of it has evolved from the incorporation of independent townships, such as Hyde Park Township, that have been annexed by the city. Regions of the city, referred to as sides, are divided by the Chicago River and its branches. The South Side of Chicago was originally defined as all of the city south of the Chicago River, but it now excludes the Loop. The South Side has a varied ethnic composition, and it has great disparity in income and other demographic measures. The South Side covers 60% of the city's land area, with a higher ratio of single-family homes and larger sections zoned for industry than the rest of the city. The South Side boasts a broad array of cultural and social offerings, such as professional sports teams, landmark buildings, nationally renowned museums, elite educational institutions, world class medical institutions, and major parts of the city's elaborate parks system. The South Side is serviced by bus and train via the Chicago Transit Authority and a number of Metra lines. In addition, it has several Interstate highways and United States highways to serve vehicular traffic.

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Image 1Community areas of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 2Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of The Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition (from Chicago)
Image 3Nature Boardwalk at the Lincoln Park Zoo, North Side (from Chicago)
Image 4Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 5The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window. (from Chicago)
Image 6A satellite image of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 7An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (from Chicago)
Image 8O'Hare International Airport (from Chicago)
Image 9Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people: ⬤ White ⬤ Black ⬤ Asian ⬤ Hispanic ⬤ Other (from Chicago)
Image 10Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. (from Chicago)
Image 11The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 12The main hall of the Field Museum of Natural History in 2007, with Sue the T. rex in the foreground (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 13People walking around Buckingham Fountain to attend a rally (2013) (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 14Aerial view of the Chicago Loop in 2012 (from Chicago)
Image 15When 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 16Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States. (from Chicago)
Image 17Chicago Theatre (from Chicago)
Image 18Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station. (from Chicago)
Image 19The Chicago Picasso (1967) inspired a new era in urban public art. (from Chicago)
Image 20Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention (from Chicago)
Image 21WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station. (from Chicago)
Image 22Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus (from Chicago)
Image 23Willie Dixon (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 24Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011 and other Harpo Production operations until 2015. (from Chicago)
Image 25Jay Pritzker Pavilion (from Chicago)
Image 26Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (from Chicago)
Image 27Buckingham Fountain is located in Grant Park in the Loop (from Chicago)
Image 28Ethnic origins in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 29Chicago-style deep-dish pizza (from Chicago)
Image 30Daley 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 31A Polish market in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 32Aerial view of Navy Pier located in the Streeterville neighborhood, one of the most visited attractions in the Midwestern United States. (from Chicago)
Image 33"Chicago" by Carl Sandburg (from Chicago)
Image 34Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange (2022) after reconstruction, initially opened in the 1960s (from Chicago)
Image 35The University of Chicago campus as seen from the Midway Plaisance (from Chicago)
Image 36Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 37Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931) (from Chicago)
Image 38Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side (from Chicago)
Image 39Home Insurance Building (1885) (from Chicago)
Image 40Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront (from Chicago)
Image 41Chicago-style hot dog (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 42Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 43Chicago Theatre (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 44Flag of Chicago (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 45The Chicago Board of Trade Building (from Chicago)
Image 46The Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 47Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 48Chicago tenants picket against rent increases (March 1920) (from Chicago)
Image 49Ford Explorer SUV as a Chicago Police Department vehicle, 2021 (from Chicago)
Image 50The Chicago River during the January 2014 cold wave (from Chicago)
Image 51The Chicago Picasso (from Culture of 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 Damen, despite being one of the busiest stations on the Chicago "L", lacks accessibility for the disabled?
... that following a 1964 police raid on a gay bar, Chicago newspapers published the names and personal information of several of those arrested?
... that after getting drunk and verbally abusing Cap Anson at a baseball game during his off day, Charlie Bartson was released from the Chicago Pirates?
... that Chicago's Kasama is the world's first Filipino restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star?
... that Chicago Radio public address systems were used extensively by the pro-independence Indian National Congress during the British Raj?
... that four course records were broken during the 2023 Chicago Marathon?
... that a college designed for and led by Native Americans was active in Chicago from 1974 to 2005?
... that the Chicago "L"'s Laflin station had an elevator for caskets?

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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 Isidore H. Heller House is a house located at 5132 Woodlawn Avenue in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The house was designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The design is credited as one of the turning points in Wright's shift to geometric, Prairie School architecture, which is defined by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands, and an integration with the landscape, which is meant to evoke native Prairie surroundings. The work demonstrates Wright's shift away from emulating the style of his mentor, Louis Sullivan. Richard Bock, a Wright collaborator and sculptor, provided some of the ornamentation, including a plaster frieze. The ownership history of this building demonstrates the property's evolution and development in the framework of surrounding Hyde Park buildings, and the building's location in the current community—near other Prairie School architecture—includes this building into the overall body of Lloyd Wright's work. The Heller House was designated a Chicago Landmark on September 15, 1971, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972. On 18 August 2004, the U.S. Department of the Interior designated the house a National Historic Landmark.

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"It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows her prophecies faster than she can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time." — Mark Twain

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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 141 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, the address of the Chicago Board of Trade Building (pictured), has been the address of two different buildings that at one point was the tallest building in Chicago?
...that William W. Powers State Recreation Area's Wolf Lake co-hosted a BioBlitz by over 150 scientists who unofficially counted 1,815 species in a day?
...that after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the population of the neighboring Hyde Park Township exceeded that of the devastated city of Chicago?
...that all four deaths in the thirty annual Chicago Marathons have occurred in the last ten years?

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