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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 in 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 2000 United States House of Representatives election for the 1st district in Illinois took place on November 7, 2000 to elect a representative from Illinois's 1st congressional district for the 107th United States Congress. Incumbent Democratic Representative Bobby Rush faced a primary challenge from Barack Obama. Rush defeated Obama 61 percent to 30 percent, with other candidates combining for the remaining nine percent. Rush then defeated his Republican opponent, Raymond Wardingley, 87 percent to 12 percent, ensuring his reelection. Subsequent to this election Obama was elected to the United States Senate in 2004. He was then elected President of the United States in 2008.

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Image 1Chicago Theatre (from Chicago)
Image 2The University of Chicago campus as seen from the Midway Plaisance (from Chicago)
Image 3An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (from Chicago)
Image 4Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront (from Chicago)
Image 5People walking around Buckingham Fountain to attend a rally (2013) (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 6Buckingham Fountain is located in Grant Park in the Loop (from Chicago)
Image 7Chicago Theatre (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 8The main hall of the Field Museum of Natural History in 2007, with Sue the T. rex in the foreground (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 9Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention (from Chicago)
Image 10Ford Explorer SUV as a Chicago Police Department vehicle, 2021 (from Chicago)
Image 11Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 12Flag of Chicago (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 13Jay Pritzker Pavilion (from Chicago)
Image 14The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 15Ethnic origins in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 16Willie Dixon (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 17The Chicago Board of Trade Building (from Chicago)
Image 18O'Hare International Airport (from Chicago)
Image 19Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus (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 21A Polish market in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 22When 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 23The Chicago Picasso (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 24Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange (2022) after reconstruction, initially opened in the 1960s (from Chicago)
Image 25Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station. (from Chicago)
Image 26Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931) (from Chicago)
Image 27Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. (from Chicago)
Image 28A satellite image of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 29Daley 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 30Chicago tenants picket against rent increases (March 1920) (from Chicago)
Image 31The Chicago Picasso (1967) inspired a new era in urban public art. (from Chicago)
Image 32Home Insurance Building (1885) (from Chicago)
Image 33The Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 34Chicago-style deep-dish pizza (from Chicago)
Image 35Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people: ⬤ White ⬤ Black ⬤ Asian ⬤ Hispanic ⬤ Other (from Chicago)
Image 36"Chicago" by Carl Sandburg (from Chicago)
Image 37Nature Boardwalk at the Lincoln Park Zoo, North Side (from Chicago)
Image 38The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window. (from Chicago)
Image 39WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station. (from Chicago)
Image 40Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side (from Chicago)
Image 41Chicago-style hot dog (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 42The Chicago River during the January 2014 cold wave (from Chicago)
Image 43Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (from Chicago)
Image 44Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 45Aerial view of the Chicago Loop in 2012 (from Chicago)
Image 46Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of The Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition (from Chicago)
Image 47Aerial view of Navy Pier located in the Streeterville neighborhood, one of the most visited attractions in the Midwestern United States. (from Chicago)
Image 48Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 49Community areas of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 50Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 51Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States. (from Chicago)

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The discography of Kanye West, an American rapper and singer, includes nine studio albums (including several collaborative albums), two live albums, three video albums, four mixtapes, over 100 singles (including nine collaborative singles and fifty-five as a featured artist), ten promotional singles and eighty-four music videos. In 2003, West collaborated with rapper Twista and singer Jamie Foxx on the song "Slow Jamz", which became West's first single to top the US Billboard Hot 100. West's debut album, The College Dropout, was released in February 2004. The album peaked at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart and was certified double-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). West released his second studio album Late Registration in August 2005. It peaked at number one on the Billboard 200, with first week sales of 860,000 copies. Late Registration produced five singles, including "Gold Digger", which topped the Billboard Hot 100. The album has sold three million copies and has gained triple-platinum certification from the RIAA. Graduation, West's third album, peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 and shipped over 957,000 units in its first week, breaking the record set by his previous album. Graduation held the number-one spot on the Billboard 200 for over a month, also reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart. It spawned five singles, including the Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Stronger". West's fourth album 808s & Heartbreak was released in November 2008 and became his third consecutive number-one release on the Billboard 200. West released My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, his fifth studio album, in November 2010. The album hit number one on the Billboard 200, continuing a streak of number-one albums for West. In 2011, West collaborated with American recording artist Katy Perry on a remix of her song "E.T." which hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100, marking West's fourth number-one single on the chart. Watch the Throne, a collaboration with Jay-Z, was released as West's sixth studio album in August 2011. Peaking at number one on the Billboard 200, seven singles were released from the album. (Read more...)

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... that Chicago journalist Jamie Kalven has amassed a database of nearly 250,000 allegations against police officers?
... that the Chicago "L"'s Laflin station had an elevator for caskets?
... that from the old Chicago Station, a five-cent fare would get you as far west as California?
... that Damen, despite being one of the busiest stations on the Chicago "L", lacks accessibility for the disabled?
... 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 Chow Leung started a language school for children in Chicago before writing Chinese Fables and Folk Stories with Mary Hayes Davis?
... that Chicago's Marshfield station had four tracks and three platforms, and involved three branch lines and an interurban?
... that the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Sports Illustrated have all profiled the smallest TV station in the United States?

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Robert Todd Pelinka, Jr. is an American lawyer, sports agent and former college basketball player from Lake Bluff, Illinois (suburban Chicago). As a sports agent he is best known as NBA MVP Kobe Bryant's agent and President and CEO of The Landmark Sports Agency, LLC. He is the agent for the seventh overall selection in the 2008 NBA Draft, Eric Gordon. He has also been the agent for NBA All-Star Carlos Boozer, which has been controversial. He currently represents thirteen National Basketball Association (NBA) players, five of whom play for Los Angeles teams. As a basketball player he is former high school All-American who was overlooked by many scouts and recruiters at the Division I-level entering his senior season, but his MVP performance in a four-game tournament where he made all 42 of his free throws and impressive senior season statistics propelled him to a highly recruited status. He eventually went to the University of Michigan where he has the distinction of having been a member of three NCAA Final Four entrants: the 1988–89 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Champion University of Michigan Wolverines as well as both the 1991–92 and the 1992–93 national championship runners up that were best remembered as the Fab Five teams. Pelinka holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School and B.B.A. Business degree (BUS: BBA 1993) from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. Pelinka was also named the 1993 NCAA Male Walter Byers Scholar Athlete of the Year.

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The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, operated in the New City community area of Chicago, Illinois for 106 years, helping the city become known as "hog butcher for the world" and the center of the American meat packing industry for decades. From the Civil War until the 1920s and peaking in 1924, more meat was processed in Chicago than in any other place in the world. Construction began in June 1865 with an opening on Christmas Day in 1865. The Yards closed at midnight on Friday, July 30, 1971 after several decades of decline during the decentralization of the meat packing industry. The Union Stock Yard Gate was designated a Chicago Landmark on February 24, 1972 and a National Historic Landmark on May 29, 1981.

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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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April 25, 2024 – 2024 NFL draft: The first round of the NFL draft is held in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., with the Chicago Bears taking former USC quarterback Caleb Williams with the first overall pick. (Chicago Tribune)

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Chicago

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 George Lilja (pictured) once played a Michigan Wolverines football game wearing another player's jersey, confusing many of his fans?
...that some of Frank Sinatra's recordings of the 1964 song "My Kind of Town" change the original lyrics to omit reference to the Union Stock Yard which closed in 1971?
...that Patrick Ivuti's photo finish victory in the 2007 Chicago Marathon, one of the five major marathons, was his first marathon victory?
...that Chicago City Council alderman Toni Preckwinkle has dissented against Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley more often than any other alderman in council votes?

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