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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 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 ten 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 Litigators is a 2011 legal thriller novel by John Grisham, his 25th fiction novel overall. The Litigators is about a two-partner Chicago law firm attempting to strike it rich in a class action lawsuit over a cholesterol reduction drug by a major pharmaceutical drug company. The protagonist is a Harvard Law School grad big law firm burnout who stumbles upon the boutique and joins it only to find himself litigating against his old law firm in this case. The book is regarded as more humorous than most of Grisham's prior novels. Critical reviews were mixed for the book, with several opinions noting a lack of suspense. Nonetheless, the book has achieved both hardcover and ebook #1 best seller status on various lists, including both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. However, since some services do not separate fiction and non-fiction books, it did not debut as a #1 bestseller on certain lists, such as the USA Today. Some reviewers noted that this story would lend itself to an adapted screenplay.

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Image 1O'Hare International Airport (from Chicago)
Image 2Ethnic origins in Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 3Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (from Chicago)
Image 4The Chicago River during the January 2014 cold wave (from Chicago)
Image 5Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people: ⬤ White ⬤ Black ⬤ Asian ⬤ Hispanic ⬤ Other (from Chicago)
Image 6The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window. (from Chicago)
Image 7Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange (2022) after reconstruction; it initially opened in the 1960s. (from Chicago)
Image 8The Chicago Picasso (1967) inspired a new era in urban public art. (from Chicago)
Image 9An Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station. (from Chicago)
Image 10Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 11Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront (from Chicago)
Image 12WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station. (from Chicago)
Image 13Chicago-style hot dog (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 14Jay Pritzker Pavilion (from Chicago)
Image 15Flag of Chicago (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 16Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 17Community areas of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 18Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States. (from Chicago)
Image 19Buckingham Fountain is located in Grant Park in the Loop. (from Chicago)
Image 20Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011, and of other Harpo Production operations until 2015. (from Chicago)
Image 21Chicago-style deep-dish pizza (from Chicago)
Image 22People walking around Buckingham Fountain to attend a rally (2013) (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 23Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 24The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 25Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of The Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition (from Chicago)
Image 26When 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 27Chicago tenants picket against rent increases (March 1920) (from Chicago)
Image 28Ford Explorer SUV as a Chicago Police Department vehicle, 2021 (from Chicago)
Image 29Aerial view of the Chicago Loop in 2012 (from Chicago)
Image 30Nature Boardwalk at the Lincoln Park Zoo, North Side (from Chicago)
Image 31Willie Dixon (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 32Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side (from Chicago)
Image 33Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus (from Chicago)
Image 34The Field Museum of Natural History (from Chicago)
Image 35Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. (from Chicago)
Image 36Chicago Theatre (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 37Aerial view of Navy Pier located in the Streeterville neighborhood, one of the most visited attractions in the Midwestern United States. (from Chicago)
Image 38Daley Plaza and the Chicago Picasso, with City Hall-County Building visible in background. At right, the Daley Center contains the state law courts. (from Chicago)
Image 39The main hall of the Field Museum of Natural History in 2007, with Sue the T. rex in the foreground (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 40Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 41Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931) (from Chicago)
Image 42The Chicago Picasso (from Culture of Chicago)
Image 43Chicago Theatre (from Chicago)
Image 44Home Insurance Building (1885) (from Chicago)
Image 45A satellite image of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 46Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention (from Chicago)
Image 47An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (from Chicago)
Image 48The University of Chicago campus as seen from the Midway Plaisance (from Chicago)
Image 49The Chicago Board of Trade Building (from Chicago)
Image 50A Polish market in Chicago (from Chicago)

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The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball franchise based in Chicago, Illinois. They play in the American League Central division. The White Sox have used 62 Opening Day starting pitchers since they were established as a Major League team in 1901. The first game of the new baseball season for a team is played on Opening Day, and being named the Opening Day starter is an honor, which is given to the player who is expected to lead the pitching staff that season. The White Sox have a record of 58 wins and 52 losses in their Opening Day games. The White Sox have played in three different home ball parks. They had a record of four wins and two losses in Opening Day games at South Side Park, 18 wins and 19 losses at the first Comiskey Park and four wins and one loss at U.S. Cellular Field, for a total home record in Opening Day games of 26 wins and 22 losses. Their record in Opening Day away games is 32 wins and 30 losses. Mark Buehrle holds the record for making the most Opening Day starts for the White Sox, with eight. Billy Pierce had seven Opening Day starts for the White Sox, Wilbur Wood had five, Tommy Thomas and Jack McDowell each had four, and Frank Smith, Jim Scott, Lefty Williams, Sad Sam Jones, Bill Dietrich, Gary Peters and Tommy John each had three. Several Baseball Hall of Famers have made Opening Day starts for the White Sox, including Ed Walsh, Red Faber, Ted Lyons, Early Wynn and Tom Seaver. (Read more...)

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... that Chicago journalist Jamie Kalven has amassed a database of nearly 250,000 allegations against police officers?
... that Univision bought a Chicago TV station that wasn't for sale?
... that the Dearborn Street Subway had skip-stop service in 1951 for one morning before it was discontinued?
... that a Chicago TV station was expelled from the National Association of Broadcasters by mistake?
... that Chicago Radio public address systems were used extensively by the pro-independence Indian National Congress during the British Raj?
... that a tornado near Chicago was produced by a storm with a hydrodynamical helicity four times higher than the threshold favorable for tornadogenesis?
... that Chicago's Kasama is the world's first Filipino restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star?
... that YouTuber Joey Santore is known for his "Bill Swerski–esque" Chicago accent and use of profanity on his channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't?

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David Lawrence Schwimmer is an American actor and director of television and film. Born in New York, he moved and began his acting career performing in school plays at Beverly Hills High School. In 1988, he graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theater and speech. After graduation, Schwimmer co-founded the Lookingglass Theatre Company. He then appeared in a number of television roles, including L.A. Law, The Wonder Years, NYPD Blue, and Monty in the early-1990s. Schwimmer later gained worldwide recognition for playing Ross Geller in the situation comedy Friends. He starred in his first feature film The Pallbearer (1996), which was followed by roles in Kissing a Fool (1998), Six Days Seven Nights (1998), Apt Pupil, and Picking Up the Pieces (2000). He was then cast in the miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) as Herbert Sobel. Following the series finale of Friends in 2004, Schwimmer landed the role of the titular character in the 2005 drama Duane Hopwood. Other film roles include the computer animated film Madagascar (2005), the dark comedy Big Nothing (2006), the thriller Nothing But the Truth (2008), and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008). Schwimmer made his London stage debut in the leading role in Some Girl(s) in 2005, for which he received critical reviews. In 2006 he made his Broadway debut in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Schwimmer made his directorial debut with the 2008 comedy Run Fatboy Run.

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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.

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"You can put it on the Board, Yes!" — Ken "Hawk" Harrelson

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December 2, 2024 –: Three people are killed and eight others are injured after a mass shooting at a gathering in Gage Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States. (NBC News)

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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 the Heller House (pictured) marked a turning point in Frank Lloyd Wright's shift to Prairie School architecture?
...that on an average day, 1.6 million rides are taken on the CTA?
...that Garland Rivers was the only true freshman to earn a varsity letter on the 1983 Michigan Wolverines football team?
...that architect, former partner at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, and founder of Lucien Lagrange Architects, Lucien Lagrange was a high school dropout?
...that the Marshall Field and Company Building has three separate atria?

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