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

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Chicago Landmark is a designation of the Mayor of Chicago and the Chicago City Council for historic buildings and other sites in Chicago, Illinois. Listed sites are selected after meeting a combination of criteria, including historical, economic, architectural, artistic, cultural, and social values. Once a site is designated as a landmark, it is subject to the Chicago Landmarks Ordinance, which requires that any alterations beyond routine maintenance, up to and including demolition, must have their permit reviewed by the Landmarks Commission. Many Chicago Landmarks districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects worthy of preservation by the National Park Service have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, providing federal tax support for preservation, and some have been designated with National Historic Landmark status by the United States Secretary of the Interior for historical significance, providing additional federal oversight.

In Chicago, the historic preservation movement initially sought to ensure the survival of individual buildings of special significance. However, the movement has evolved to include districts and neighborhoods and even encompasses distinctive areas of the natural environment. In 1957, Chicago City Council 5th ward Alderman Leon Despres began the landmark preservation movement in Chicago, by adopting the Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House. This led to the formation of the City Landmarks Commission, who chose 39 buildings as "honorary" landmarks. That body evolved into the present Commission on Chicago Landmarks which was empowered by Despres's 1968 city ordinance to select and protect 12 important buildings as the inaugural official Chicago Landmarks. The efforts spawned the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois in addition to the municipal Commission. (Read more...)

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... that Mark Stanforth won the 1978 Chicago Marathon despite running the last few miles with blisters?
... that tickets of the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad could be purchased for Bellwood station at a local drug store?
... that from the old Chicago Station, a five-cent fare would get you as far west as California?
... that a "frustration walk" connected Chicago Union Station with the rapid transit Canal station?
... 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 Bally's Chicago, a proposed casino resort in Chicago, has a goal of bringing in $200 million in annual tax revenue to fund the city's police and firefighter pension fund?
... that when Oprah Winfrey was honored at the 2018 Golden Globes, the first person she thanked was Dennis Swanson, the Chicago TV station manager who hired her?
... 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?

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William Samuel Sadler was an American psychiatrist and author who played a key role in the creation of the The Urantia Book and the spiritual and philosophical movement it spawned. A native of Indiana, he moved to Michigan to work at the Battle Creek Sanitarium as a teenager and became acquainted with John Harvey Kellogg. Sadler was influenced by some of Kellogg's views, and married his niece, Lena Celestia Kellogg. As a young man, Sadler worked for several Christian missionary and charitable organizations and attended American Medical Missionary College. He graduated in 1906 and studied psychiatry in Europe under Sigmund Freud in 1910. After finishing his education, Sadler practiced medicine in Chicago as a surgeon and psychiatrist. He joined several medical associations, and taught at the McCormick Theological Seminary and the Post-Graduate Medical School of Chicago. In 1907, along with his wife, Sadler became a speaker on the Chautauqua adult-education circuit. He eventually became a highly-paid, popular speaker. He wrote many books on a variety of medical and spiritual topics, advocating a holistic approach to health. Although he was a committed member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for almost twenty years, he left the church after the excommunication of John Harvey Kellogg in 1907. Nevertheless, Sadler extolled the value of prayer and religion, but embraced scientific consensus and was skeptical of mediums. He worked with Howard Thurston in his efforts to debunk psychics. Around 1911, Sadler attempted to treat a patient with an unusual sleep condition. While sleeping, the man spoke to Sadler and claimed to be an extraterrestrial. After unsuccessful attempts to explain the phenomena, Sadler decided that the man's statements were accurate. For many years, Salder and a small number of assistants visited the man while he was sleeping to converse about spirituality, history, and cosmology. A larger number of interested people met as a group at Sadler's home to discuss the man's responses and to suggested additional questions. The man's words were eventually compiled in The Urantia Book, and the Urantia Foundation was created to spread its message. Although it never became the basis of an organized religion, the book attracted committed followers who devoted themselves to its study. Sadler had close ties to the Urantia Foundation until his death in 1969.

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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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"Once you've come to be a part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real." — Nelson Algren

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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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