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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 finance 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 ten 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 1880 Republican National Convention convened from June 2 to June 8, 1880, at the Interstate Exposition Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and nominated James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur as the official candidates of the Republican Party for President and Vice President of the United States, respectively, in the 1880 presidential election. Of the 14 people nominated for the Republican nomination, the three strongest candidates leading up to the convention were Ulysses S. Grant, James G. Blaine and John Sherman. Grant had served two terms as President from 1869 to 1877, and was seeking an unprecedented third term in office. He was backed by the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party, which supported political machines and patronage. Blaine was a senator and former representative from Maine who was backed by the Half-Breed faction of the Republican Party. Sherman, the brother of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, was the then Secretary of the Treasury under President Rutherford B. Hayes. He was also a former senator from Ohio and was backed by a delegation that did not support the Stalwarts or Half-Breeds. Garfield's Ohio delegation chose Chester A. Arthur, a Stalwart, as Garfield's vice-presidential running mate. Arthur won the nomination by capturing 468 votes, and the longest-ever Republican National Convention was subsequently adjourned. The Garfield-Arthur Republican ticket later defeated Democrats Winfield Scott Hancock and William Hayden English in the close 1880 presidential election.

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Image 1Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention (from Chicago)
Image 2Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 3Ethnic origins in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 4Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange (2022) after reconstruction; it initially opened in the 1960s. (from Chicago)
Image 5The Chicago River during the January 2014 cold wave (from Chicago)
Image 6Aerial view of the Chicago Loop in 2012 (from Chicago)
Image 7Aerial view of Navy Pier located in the Streeterville neighborhood, one of the most visited attractions in the Midwestern United States. (from Chicago)
Image 8Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 9Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 10Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people: ⬤ White ⬤ Black ⬤ Asian ⬤ Hispanic ⬤ Other (from Chicago)
Image 11The main hall of the Field Museum of Natural History in 2007, with Sue the T. rex in the foreground (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 12O'Hare International Airport (from Chicago)
Image 13An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (from Chicago)
Image 14WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station. (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 16The Chicago Board of Trade Building (from Chicago)
Image 17Chicago Theatre (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 18Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus (from Chicago)
Image 19Buckingham Fountain is located in Grant Park in the Loop. (from Chicago)
Image 20The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window. (from Chicago)
Image 21Home Insurance Building (1885) (from Chicago)
Image 22Chicago-style deep-dish pizza (from Chicago)
Image 23People walking around Buckingham Fountain to attend a rally (2013) (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 24Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront (from Chicago)
Image 25Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. (from Chicago)
Image 26The Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 27Chicago Theatre (from Chicago)
Image 28The Chicago Picasso (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 29Chicago-style hot dog (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 30Ford Explorer SUV as a Chicago Police Department vehicle, 2021 (from Chicago)
Image 31The Chicago Picasso (1967) inspired a new era in urban public art. (from Chicago)
Image 32Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (from Chicago)
Image 33Jay Pritzker Pavilion (from Chicago)
Image 34An Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station. (from Chicago)
Image 35Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side (from Chicago)
Image 36Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo on the North Side (from Chicago)
Image 37Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of The Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition (from Chicago)
Image 38A satellite image of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 39Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931) (from Chicago)
Image 40Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011, and of other Harpo Production operations until 2015. (from Chicago)
Image 41Community areas of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 42Flag of Chicago (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 43Willie Dixon (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 44Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States. (from Chicago)
Image 45The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 46Daley Plaza and the Chicago Picasso, with City Hall-County Building visible in background. At right, the Daley Center contains the state law courts. (from Chicago)
Image 47A Polish market in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 48Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 49The University of Chicago campus as seen from the Midway Plaisance (from Chicago)
Image 50Chicago tenants picket against rent increases (March 1920) (from Chicago)

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The Chicago Cubs are a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise based in Chicago, Illinois. They play in the National League Central division. Since the institution of MLB's Rule 4 Draft, the Cubs have selected 56 players in the first round. Officially known as the "First-Year Player Draft", the Rule 4 Draft is MLB's primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to its teams. The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings, with the team possessing the worst record receiving the first pick. In addition, teams which lost free agents in the previous off-season may be awarded compensatory or supplementary picks. Of the 56 players picked in the first round by the Cubs, 28 have been pitchers, the most of any position; 22 of these were right-handed, while 6 were left-handed. Fifteen players picked in the initial round were outfielders, while seven shortstops, two catchers, and one player each at first base, second base, and third base were also taken. The Cubs drafted 24 players out of high school, and 32 out of college. Chicago has drafted eleven players from high schools or colleges in the state of California, with six more coming from Texas and five from Indiana. The Cubs have also taken three players from their home state of Illinois. The Cubs have not won a World Series championship since 1908, and no pick has been elected to the Hall of Fame. The Cubs' first-round selection in 1995—Kerry Wood—won the MLB Rookie of the Year award with the franchise in 1998, his first season in the Major Leagues. One pick—1985 selection Rafael Palmeiro—is a member of both the 3,000 hit club and the 500 home run club. The Cubs have held the first overall pick in the draft only once, in 1982, when they selected Shawon Dunston. (Read more...)

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... that Manny's Deli in Chicago received national recognition for its popularity among politicians, including Barack Obama?
... that Zenith Data Systems unveiled their SupersPort laptop at a Chicago show that featured helmeted performers and motorcyclists?
... that Chicago's Kasama is the world's first Filipino restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star?
... that from the old Chicago Station, a five-cent fare would get you as far west as California?
... 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?
... that Chicago's Marshfield station had four tracks and three platforms, and involved three branch lines and an interurban?
... that Chicago Radio public address systems were used extensively by the pro-independence Indian National Congress during the British Raj?
... 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?

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John Washington Rogers, Jr. (born March 31, 1958) is an investment manager who founded Ariel Capital Management (now Ariel Investments, LLC), which is the United States' largest minority-run mutual fund firm, in 1983. He is chairman and CEO of the company. He served as the Board President of the Chicago Park District for six years in the 1990s. He was captain of the 1979–80 Ivy League co-champion Princeton Tigers men's basketball team. He has performed other service as board member to several prominent companies, as a leader of several organizations affiliated with his collegiate alma mater, and as a leader in youth education in his native Chicago. He has been honored with the Woodrow Wilson Award for the breadth and depth of his service to many organizations. He has been active in the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign and is a leader of the 2009 Inauguration committee. He has been a regular contributor to Forbes magazine for most of this decade.

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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] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a “world” city, more European in some respects than American." — John Gunther

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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 All-American Wistert brothers Albert (pictured), Alvin and Whitey wore number 11 and played offensive tackle as University of Michigan Wolverines before being named to the College Football Hall of Fame?
...that the 1860 Republican and 1864 Democratic national conventions were held at the Wigwam, a building built in just over a month?
...that Chicago City Council alderman Vi Daley has proposed legislation that banks be forbidden to open within 600 feet (180 m) of each other?
...that Lucien Lagrange Architects has been involved in attempts to renovate Union Station in Chicago, Illinois for over twenty years?

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