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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 1998 National League Wild Card tie-breaker game was a one-game playoff to decide the winner of Major League Baseball's (MLB) National League Wild Card. The game took place on September 28, 1998 between the Chicago Cubs of the National League Central and the San Francisco Giants of the National League West at Wrigley Field. It was necessary after both teams finished the season with records of 89–73. The Cubs won a coin flip late in the season which, by rule at the time, awarded them home field for the game. The Cubs won the game 5–3, holding the Giants scoreless for the majority of the game until the Giants threatened heavily in the ninth inning and scored all three of their runs. This victory advanced the Cubs to the 1998 National League Division Series (NLDS) where they were swept by the Atlanta Braves, ending the Cubs' season. In baseball statistics the tie-breaker counted as the 163rd regular season game for both teams, with all events in the game added to regular season statistics.

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Image 1The main hall of the Field Museum of Natural History in 2007, with Sue the T. rex in the foreground (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 2The Chicago Board of Trade Building (from Chicago)
Image 3A satellite image of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 4WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station. (from Chicago)
Image 5Aerial view of Navy Pier located in the Streeterville neighborhood, one of the most visited attractions in the Midwestern United States. (from Chicago)
Image 6Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931) (from Chicago)
Image 7Ethnic origins in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 8Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station. (from Chicago)
Image 9Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (from Chicago)
Image 10The University of Chicago campus as seen from the Midway Plaisance (from Chicago)
Image 11Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront (from Chicago)
Image 12Home Insurance Building (1885) (from Chicago)
Image 13The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 14Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side (from Chicago)
Image 15The Chicago Picasso (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 16Buckingham Fountain is located in Grant Park in the Loop (from Chicago)
Image 17Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 18An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (from Chicago)
Image 19Chicago Theatre (from Chicago)
Image 20Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 21Daley 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 22A Polish market in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 23The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window. (from Chicago)
Image 24Nature Boardwalk at the Lincoln Park Zoo, North Side (from Chicago)
Image 25Chicago-style hot dog (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 26Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention (from Chicago)
Image 27Aerial view of the Chicago Loop in 2012 (from Chicago)
Image 28Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. (from Chicago)
Image 29The Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 30The Chicago Picasso (1967) inspired a new era in urban public art. (from Chicago)
Image 31Ford Explorer SUV as a Chicago Police Department vehicle, 2021 (from Chicago)
Image 32Chicago Theatre (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 33Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 34Jay Pritzker Pavilion (from Chicago)
Image 35Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011 and other Harpo Production operations until 2015. (from Chicago)
Image 36Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people: ⬤ White ⬤ Black ⬤ Asian ⬤ Hispanic ⬤ Other (from Chicago)
Image 37Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus (from Chicago)
Image 38Community areas of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 39Flag of Chicago (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 40Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange (2022) after reconstruction, initially opened in the 1960s (from Chicago)
Image 41Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States. (from Chicago)
Image 42When 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 43People walking around Buckingham Fountain to attend a rally (2013) (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 44Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 45Chicago tenants picket against rent increases (March 1920) (from Chicago)
Image 46Chicago-style deep-dish pizza (from Chicago)
Image 47Willie Dixon (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 48Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of The Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition (from Chicago)
Image 49O'Hare International Airport (from Chicago)
Image 50The Chicago River during the January 2014 cold wave (from Chicago)
Image 51"Chicago" by Carl Sandburg (from 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 kids could fight the Great Chicago Fire at Freedomland U.S.A.?
... that Manny's Deli in Chicago received national recognition for its popularity among politicians, including Barack Obama?
... that four course records were broken during the 2023 Chicago Marathon?
... that Chicago's Marshfield station had four tracks and three platforms, and involved three branch lines and an interurban?
... that following a 1964 police raid on a gay bar, Chicago newspapers published the names and personal information of several of those arrested?
... that a Chicago TV station was expelled from the National Association of Broadcasters by mistake?
... that Chicago journalist Jamie Kalven has amassed a database of nearly 250,000 allegations against police officers?
... 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?

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Harold Clayton Urey (1893 – 1981) was an American physical chemist whose isotope work earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934 for the discovery of deuterium. He played a significant role in the atom bomb and made contributions to the development of organic life from non-living matter. Born in Walkerton, Indiana, Urey studied thermodynamics under Gilbert N. Lewis at the University of California. After he received his PhD in 1923, he studied at the Niels Bohr Institute. He was a research associate at Johns Hopkins University before becoming an associate professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. In 1931, work separating isotopes led to the discovery of deuterium. During World War II, focused on uranium enrichment. He headed the Columbia University group that developed isotope separation using gaseous diffusion, the sole method used in the early post-war period. After the war, Urey became professor of chemistry at the Institute for Nuclear Studies, and later Ryerson professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago. Urey speculated that the early terrestrial atmosphere was probably composed of ammonia, methane, and hydrogen. Graduate student Stanley L. Miller showed in the Miller-Urey experiment that, if such a mixture be exposed to electric sparks and water, it can interact to produce amino acids. Work with isotopes of oxygen led to the new field of paleoclimatic research. In 1958, he accepted a post at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), becoming a founding member of UCSD's school of chemistry in 1960.

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The Chicago Board of Trade Building houses the Chicago Board of Trade, the world's largest futures and options exchange. It is located at 141 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, in the Chicago Loop community area. First designated a Chicago Landmark on May 4, 1977, the building was subsequently listed as a National Historic Landmark on June 2, 1978. The building was then added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 16, 1978. The tallest building in Chicago for over 35 years the structure is known for its art-deco architecture, sculptures and large scale stone carving, as well as large trading floors. A popular sightseeing attraction and motion picture location, the building has won awards for preservation efforts and office management. The Chicago Board of Trade occupies 33 percent of available space, with financial and trading concerns occupying 54 percent of the 3-building complex. The landmark has been the site of a number of visits by dignitaries, including the Prince of Wales in October 1977. Trading operations have been used as scenes in movies such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and the streetscape in the LaSalle Street canyon is used in the movies The Untouchables and Road to Perdition.

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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 after the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, the Loop Retail Historic District (pictured) was Chicago's premier retailing district until it was replaced by commuter suburbs and the Magnificent Mile?
...that Patrick Nash helped change the city charter, which called for a special election in the case of death of the Chicago Mayor, so that the Chicago City Council could appoint Edward Joseph Kelly?
...that the merged Rainbow/PUSH is an outgrowth of Jesse Jackson's 1984 Presidential campaign and a factional split in Operation Breadbasket, an affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
...that University of Chicago Graduate School of Business professor Toby Moskowitz won the Fischer Black Prize as the top finance researcher under 40 after a 4 year hiatus with no worthy candidates?

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