Chicago ( shih-KAH -goh , shih-KAW -goh ; Miami-Illinois : Shikaakwa ; Ojibwe : Zhigaagong ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the third-most populous in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles . With a population of 2,746,388 in the 2020 census , it is also the most populous city in the Midwest . As the seat of Cook County , the second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area .
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) 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... )
The
Indian Creek massacre occurred on May 21, 1832 when a group of settlers living 6 miles (9.7 km) north of
Ottawa ,
Illinois , United States, along Indian Creek, were attacked by a party of
Native Americans . The massacre likely resulted from a local settler's refusal to remove a dam which jeopardized a key food source for a nearby
Potawatomi village, violating Native American
water rights . A band of between 20 and 40 Potawatomi and three
Sauk warriors attacked the cabin site. Fifteen settlers, including women and children, were massacred at the site near the present-day border of
LaSalle and
DeKalb Counties . Several people escaped the massacre and two young women were kidnapped by the raiders to be released about two weeks later unharmed. In the aftermath of the massacre white settlers fled their homes for the safety of frontier forts and the protection of the militia. The Indian Creek massacre was later used as justification when U.S. soldiers and militia massacred many in
Black Hawk's band at the
Battle of Bad Axe . The events at Indian Creek were peripherally related to the
Black Hawk War and are seen as an act of personal revenge that was not sanctioned by Black Hawk. Though there are a number of historical discrepancies in the details surrounding the events at Indian Creek, historians have generally agreed on the contentious points. Today, the site of the massacre is marked by a memorial in northern
LaSalle County .
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Image 1 A Polish market in Chicago (from Chicago )
Image 3 Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011 and other Harpo Production operations until 2015. (from Chicago )
Image 5 Willie Dixon (from Culture of Chicago )
Image 6 WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station. (from Chicago )
Image 8 Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (from Chicago )
Image 9 An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (from Chicago )
Image 11 The spire of the Copernicus Center is modeled on the Royal Castle in Warsaw . (from Chicago )
Image 12 Boy from Chicago, 1941 (from Chicago )
Image 13 Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago )
Image 14 Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan . (from Chicago )
Image 15 Aerial view of Navy Pier at night (from Chicago )
Image 18 Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront (from Chicago )
Image 19 Daley Plaza with Picasso statue , City Hall in background. At right, the Daley Plaza Building contains the state law courts. (from Chicago )
Image 20 Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears (from Culture of Chicago )
Image 22 Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus (from Chicago )
Image 23 The National Hellenic Museum in Greektown is one of several ethnic museums comprising the Chicago Cultural Alliance. (from Chicago )
Image 24 Flag of Chicago (from Culture of Chicago )
Image 26 Andy's Jazz Club in River North, a staple of the Chicago jazz scene since the 1950s (from Chicago )
Image 27 The main hall of the Field Museum of Natural History in 2007, with Sue the T. rex in the foreground (from Culture of Chicago )
Image 28 Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange (2022) after reconstruction, initially opened in the 1960s (from Chicago )
Image 30 The Chicago Picasso (from Culture of Chicago )
Image 31 The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School , displaying both variations of the Chicago window. (from Chicago )
Image 32 Ethnic origins in Chicago (from Chicago )
Image 34 Chicago-style hot dog (from Culture of Chicago )
Image 35 Community areas of Chicago (from Chicago )
Image 37 Magnificent Mile hosts numerous upscale stores and landmarks, including the Chicago Water Tower . (from Chicago )
Image 38 The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower (from Culture of Chicago )
Image 39 When 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 40 Buckingham Fountain , looking north in 2005 (from Culture of Chicago )
Image 41 Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people: ⬤ White ⬤ Black ⬤ Asian ⬤ Hispanic ⬤ Other (from Chicago )
Image 42 A satellite image of Chicago (from Chicago )
Image 43 Carl Sandburg 's most famous description of the city is as "Hog Butcher for the World / Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat / Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler, / Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders." (from Chicago )
Image 45 Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station . (from Chicago )
Image 46 Chicago Theatre (from Culture of Chicago )
Image 47 Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931) (from Chicago )
Image 48 The Chicago Picasso (1967) inspired a new era in urban public art. (from Chicago )
Image 50 Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs (from Culture of Chicago )
Image 51 Chicago Union Station , opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States. (from Chicago )
Lewis Robert "Hack" Wilson was an American
Major League Baseball player who played 12 seasons for the
New York Giants ,
Chicago Cubs ,
Brooklyn Dodgers and
Philadelphia Phillies . Despite his diminutive stature, he was one of the most accomplished power hitters in the game during the late 1920s and early 1930s. His 1930 season with the Cubs is widely considered one of the most memorable individual single-season hitting performances in baseball history. Highlights included 56
home runs (the
National League record for 68 years) and 191
runs batted in , a mark yet to be surpassed. As one sportswriter of the day remarked, "For a brief span of a few years, this hammered down little strongman actually rivaled the mighty [Babe] Ruth." While Wilson's combativeness and excessive alcohol consumption made him one of the most colorful sports personalities of his era, his drinking and fighting undoubtedly contributed to a premature end to his athletic career and, ultimately, his premature demise. He was inducted into the
Baseball Hall of Fame in
1979 .
The
Chicago Theatre is a famous
theater landmark located on North
State Street in the
Loop community area in the city of
Chicago in
Cook County ,
Illinois ,
United States . The theater is host to
stage plays ,
magic shows,
comedy performances,
speeches , and
concerts . Although it now emphasizes live performances of popular music, it once served as a
motion picture theatre . For several decades, it was the city's premier movie theater. The building was added to the
National Register of Historic Places on June 6, 1979, and it was listed as a
Chicago Landmark on January 28, 1983. The
marquee is a Chicago cultural and physical landmark that commonly appears in
film ,
television , artwork, and
photography .
"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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