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 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... )
The Near South Side is a community area of Chicago in Cook County , Illinois , United States . It is located just south of the downtown central business district, the Loop , which is itself a community area . The Near South Side's boundaries (see map ) are as follows: North—Roosevelt Road (1200 S); South—26th Street; West—Chicago River between Roosevelt and 18th Street, Clark Street between 18th Street and 22nd Street, Federal between 22nd and the Stevenson Expressway just south of 25th Street, and Clark Street again between the Stevenson and 26th Street; and East—Lake Michigan . The portion of the Near South Side located east of Lake Shore Drive contains some of the most well-known structures in Chicago: Soldier Field (the home of the National Football League Chicago Bears ), the eastern half of McCormick Place (Chicago's primary convention center), the Museum Campus (which contains the Field Museum of Natural History , the Shedd Aquarium , and the Adler Planetarium ), and Northerly Island . The remaining area is currently undergoing a major residential and mixed-use redevelopment. As part of the unsuccessful Chicago 2016 Olympic bid , the Olympic Village was planned to be located on a 37 acre truck parking lot south of McCormick Place that is mostly in the Douglas community area and partly in the Near South Side.
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Image 1 Chicago Union Station , opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States. (from
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Image 2 WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station. (from
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Chicago Picasso (1967) inspired a new era in urban public art. (from
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Image 8 The Chicago Picasso (from
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Guinness World Records as the largest municipal public library building in the world. (from
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Image 45 Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs (from
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List of Chicago Bears head coaches
This is a complete list of Chicago Bears head coaches . The head coaches list for the Chicago Bears , includes coaches for the Decatur Staleys (1919–1920) and Chicago Staleys (1921), of the National Football League (NFL). The Bears franchise was founded as the Decatur Staleys, a charter member of the American Professional Football Association. The team moved to Chicago in 1921, and changed their name to the Bears in 1922, the same year the American Professional Football Association (APFA) changed its name to the National Football League.
The Chicago Bears have played over one thousand games. In those games, five different coaches have won NFL championships with the team: George Halas in 1921 , 1933 , 1940 , 1941 , 1946 , and 1963 , Ralph Jones in 1932 , Hunk Anderson and Luke Johnsos in 1943 , and Mike Ditka in 1985 . George Halas is the only coach to have more than one tenure and is the all-time leader in games coached and wins, while Ralph Jones leads all coaches in winning percentage with .706. Of the 16 Bears coaches, three have been elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame : George Halas, Paddy Driscoll , and Mike Ditka. Statistics correct as of December 30, 2007, after the end of the 2007 NFL season . (Read more... )
Edward Teller was a
Hungarian -born
American theoretical physicist , known colloquially as "the father of the
hydrogen bomb ," even though he claimed that he did not care for the title. Teller is best known for his work on the American nuclear program, specifically as a member of the
Manhattan Project during
World War II , his role in the development of the hydrogen bomb, and his long association with
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory . He achieved infamy in the 1950s due to his controversial testimony in the
security clearance hearing of his former
Los Alamos colleague
J. Robert Oppenheimer , and as such became ostracized from much of the scientific community. He continued to find support from the U.S. government and military research establishment, particularly for his advocacy for
nuclear energy development, a strong nuclear arsenal, and a vigorous
nuclear testing program. In his later years he became especially known for his advocacy of controversial technological solutions to both military and civilian problems, including a plan to excavate an artificial harbor in Alaska using
thermonuclear explosives. He was a vigorous advocate of
Ronald Reagan 's
Strategic Defense Initiative , perhaps overselling the feasibility of the program.
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