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853 relations: Abbott Laboratories, Abraham Lincoln, Academy of General Dentistry, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Ace Hardware, Adlai Stevenson II, Adler Planetarium, Adler University, Advanced Placement, Aerospace, African Americans, Al Capone, Albanian Americans, Albany Park, Chicago, Albert Raby, Alexander Calder, Alinea (restaurant), Alison Saar, Allium tricoccum, Alternative rock, American Broadcasting Company, American Civil War, American College of Surgeons, American Community Survey, American Dental Association, American Heritage (magazine), American Jews, American literature, American Medical Association, American Osteopathic Association, American Society for Clinical Pathology, Amtrak, Anarchism, Ancient Egypt, Anish Kapoor, Anton Cermak, Aon Center (Chicago), Architecture of Chicago, Area code 312, Armour Square, Chicago, Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Asian Americans, Association football, Assyrian Church of the East, Atlanta, Atlantic 10 Conference, Au jus, ... Expand index (803 more) »
- 1833 establishments in Illinois
- Cities in the Chicago metropolitan area
- Illinois populated places on Lake Michigan
- Inland port cities and towns of the United States
- Populated places established in the 1780s
- Railway towns in Illinois
Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories is an American multinational medical devices and health care company with headquarters in Green Oaks, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
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Academy of General Dentistry
The Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) is a professional association of general dentists from Canada and the United States.
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Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is a 501(c)(6) trade association in the United States.
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Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) sets and enforces standards in physician continuing education (or "lifelong learning") within the United States.
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Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) is the body responsible for accrediting all graduate medical training programs (i.e., internships, residencies, and fellowships, a.k.a. subspecialty programs) for physicians in the United States.
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Ace Hardware
Ace Hardware Corporation is an American hardware retailers' cooperative based in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States.
Adlai Stevenson II
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician and diplomat who was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965.
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Adler Planetarium
The Adler Planetarium is a public museum in Chicago, Illinois, dedicated to astronomy and astrophysics.
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Adler University
Adler University is a private university, with two campuses in North America.
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Advanced Placement
Advanced Placement (AP) is a program in the United States and Canada created by the College Board.
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Aerospace
Aerospace is a term used to collectively refer to the atmosphere and outer space.
African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1925 to 1931.
Albanian Americans
Albanian Americans (shqiptaro-amerikanët) are Americans of full or partial Albanian ancestry and heritage in the United States.
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Albany Park, Chicago
Albany Park is one of 77 well-defined community areas of Chicago.
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Albert Raby
Albert Anderson Raby (1933 – November 23, 1988) was a teacher at Chicago's Hess Upper Grade Center who secured the support of Martin Luther King Jr. to desegregate schools and housing in Chicago between 1965 and 1967.
Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures.
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Alinea (restaurant)
Alinea is a restaurant in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Alison Saar
Alison Saar (born February 5, 1956) is a Los Angeles-based sculptor, mixed-media, and installation artist.
Allium tricoccum
Allium tricoccum (commonly known as ramp, ramps, ramson, wild leek, wood leek, or wild garlic) is a bulbous perennial flowering plant in the amaryllis family Amaryllidaceae.
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Alternative rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s.
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
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American College of Surgeons
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) is a professional medical association for surgeons and surgical team members, founded in 1913.
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American Community Survey
The American Community Survey (ACS) is an annual demographics survey program conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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American Dental Association
The American Dental Association (ADA) is an American professional association established in 1859 which has more than 161,000 members.
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American Heritage (magazine)
American Heritage is a magazine dedicated to covering the history of the United States for a mainstream readership.
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American Jews
American Jews or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion.
American literature
American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and in the colonies that preceded it.
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American Medical Association
The American Medical Association (AMA) is an American professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students.
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American Osteopathic Association
The American Osteopathic Association (AOA) is the representative member organization for the more than 176,000 osteopathic medical doctors (D.O.s) and osteopathic medical students in the United States.
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American Society for Clinical Pathology
The American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), formerly known as the American Society of Clinical Pathologists is a professional association based in Chicago, Illinois encompassing 130,000 pathologists and laboratory professionals.
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Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is the national passenger railroad company of the United States.
Anarchism
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
Anish Kapoor
Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor, (born 12 March 1954) is a British-Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art.
Anton Cermak
Anton Joseph Cermak (May 9, 1873 – March 6, 1933) was an American politician who served as the 44th Mayor of Chicago from April 7, 1931, until his death in 1933.
Aon Center (Chicago)
The Aon Center (200 East Randolph Street, formerly Amoco Building) is a modern super tall skyscraper east of the Chicago Loop, Chicago, Illinois, United States, designed by architect firms Edward Durell Stone and The Perkins and Will partnership, and completed in 1973 as the Standard Oil Building (nicknamed "Big Stan").
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Architecture of Chicago
The buildings and architecture of Chicago reflect the city's history and multicultural heritage, featuring prominent buildings in a variety of styles.
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Area code 312
Area code 312 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for the city of Chicago, including downtown, the Chicago Loop, and its immediate environs.
Armour Square, Chicago
Armour Square is a Chicago neighborhood on the city's South Side, as well as a larger, officially defined community area, which also includes Chinatown and the CHA Wentworth Gardens housing project.
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Art
Art is a diverse range of human activity and its resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent generally expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
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Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States.
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Asian Americans
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Assyrian Church of the East
The Assyrian Church of the East (ACOE), sometimes called the Church of the East and officially known as the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East (HACACE), is an Eastern Christian church that follows the traditional Christology and ecclesiology of the historical Church of the East.
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Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Atlantic 10 Conference
The Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I. The A-10's member schools are located mostly on the East Coast and Midwest of the United States: Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
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Au jus
Au jus is a French culinary term meaning "with juice".
Audacy, Inc.
Audacy, Inc. is an American broadcasting company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Auditorium Building
The Auditorium Building in Chicago is one of the best-known designs of Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler.
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Austin, Chicago
Austin is one of 77 community areas in Chicago.
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Autumn
Autumn, also known as fall in North American English, is one of the four temperate seasons on Earth.
Baptists
Baptists form a major branch of evangelicalism distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion.
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
Barbara Rossi (artist)
Barbara Rossi (September 20, 1940 – August 24, 2023) was an American artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group that in the 1960s and 1970s turned to representational art.
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Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.
Battery (crime)
Battery is a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, distinct from assault, which is the act of creating apprehension of such contact.
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Battle of Fort Dearborn
The Battle of Fort Dearborn (sometimes called the Fort Dearborn Massacre) was an engagement between United States troops and Potawatomi Native Americans that occurred on August 15, 1812, near Fort Dearborn in what is now Chicago, Illinois (at that time, part of the Illinois Territory).
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Baxter International
Baxter International Inc. is an American multinational healthcare company with headquarters in Deerfield, Illinois.
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Belmont Avenue
Belmont Avenue (3200 N) is a major east–west street in Chicago and some suburbs.
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Belmont Cragin, Chicago
Belmont Cragin is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas located on the Northwest Side of the City of Chicago, Illinois.
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Beverly, Chicago
Beverly, officially Beverly Hills, is the 72nd of Chicago's 77 community areas.
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Beyond the Beltway
Beyond the Beltway is a nationally syndicated radio political talk show based in Chicago that debuted on WBEZ 91.5 FM on June 26, 1980, as Inside Politics.
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Bicycle-sharing system
A bicycle-sharing system, bike share program, public bicycle scheme, or public bike share (PBS) scheme, is a shared transport service where bicycles are available for shared use by individuals at low cost.
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Big Ten Conference
The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference, among others) is the oldest NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States.
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Bill Swerski's Superfans
"Bill Swerski's Superfans" was a recurring sketch about Chicago sports fans on the American sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live.
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Black church
The black church (sometimes termed Black Christianity or African American Christianity) is the faith and body of Christian denominations and congregations in the United States that predominantly minister to, and are also led by African Americans, as well as these churches' collective traditions and members.
Black Metropolis–Bronzeville District
The Black Metropolis–Bronzeville District is a historic African American district in the Bronzeville neighborhood of the Douglas community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.
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Blizzard
A blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds and low visibility, lasting for a prolonged period of time—typically at least three or four hours.
Blockbusting
Blockbusting was a business practice in the United States in which real estate agents and building developers convinced residents in a particular area to sell their property at below-market prices.
Blue bag
A blue bag is a blue coloured, sometimes semi-transparent bag for waste, mandated for use in some localities for refuse or for certain specific types of refuse.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, also known as BCBS, BCBSA, or The Blues, is a United States-based federation with 34 independent and locally-operated BCBSA companies that provide health insurance in the United States to more than 115 million people as of 2022.
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Blue Line (CTA)
The Blue Line is a Chicago "L" line which extends through The Loop from O'Hare International Airport at the far northwest end of the city, through downtown via the Milwaukee–Dearborn subway and across the West Side to its southwest end at Forest Park, with a total of 33 stations (11 on the Forest Park branch, 9 in the Milwaukee–Dearborn subway and 13 on the O'Hare branch).
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Bosnian Americans
Bosnian Americans are Americans whose ancestry can be traced to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The vast majority of Bosnian Americans immigrated to the United States during and after the Bosnian War which lasted from 1992–95. Nevertheless, many Bosnians immigrated to the United States as early as the 19th century.
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Boulevard
A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees, or in parts of North America, any urban highway or wide road in a commercial district.
Brass Era car
The Brass Era is an American term for the early period of automotive manufacturing, named for the prominent brass fittings used during this time for such features as lights and radiators.
Bridgeview, Illinois
Bridgeview is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
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Broadway (Chicago)
Broadway is a major street in Chicago's Lake View, Uptown, and Edgewater community areas on the city's North Side, running from Diversey Parkway (2800 North) to Devon Avenue (6400 North).
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Broadway In Chicago
Broadway In Chicago is a theatrical production company.
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Brookfield Zoo Chicago
Brookfield Zoo Chicago, also known as the Chicago Zoological Park, is a zoo located in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield, Illinois.
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Brookfield, Illinois
Brookfield (formerly Grossdale) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, located west of downtown Chicago. Chicago and Brookfield, Illinois are cities in Illinois.
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Brown Line (CTA)
The Brown Line of the Chicago "L" system, is an route with 27 stations between Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood and downtown Chicago.
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Bruce DuMont
Bruce DuMont (born June 18, 1944) is an American syndicated radio political analyst and former TV broadcaster based in Chicago, Illinois.
Buckingham Fountain
Buckingham Fountain is a Chicago Landmark in the center of Grant Park, between Queen's Landing and the end of Ida B. Wells Drive.
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Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic
The Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic (also known as The Bud Billiken Day Parade) is an annual parade held since 1929 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Buddhism in the United States
The term American Buddhism can be used to describe all Buddhist groups within the United States, including Asian-American Buddhists born into the faith, who comprise the largest percentage of Buddhists in the country.
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Bugs Moran
George Clarence "Bugs" Moran (Adelard Leo Cunin; August 21, 1893 – February 25, 1957) was an American Chicago Prohibition-era gangster.
Bulgarian Americans
Bulgarian Americans (translit) are Americans of Bulgarian descent.
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Bungalow
A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is single-storey, and may be surrounded by wide verandas.
Burnham Park (Chicago)
Burnham Park is a public park located in Chicago, Illinois.
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Burnham Plan of Chicago
The Burnham Plan is a popular name for the 1909 Plan of Chicago coauthored by Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett and published in 1909.
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Cable television
Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables.
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Cabrini–Green Homes
Cabrini–Green Homes are a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois.
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Cadillac Palace Theatre
The Cadillac Palace Theatre (originally the New Palace Theatre) is operated by Broadway In Chicago, a Nederlander company and seats 2,344.
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Call of Duty
Call of Duty is a military video game series and media franchise published by Activision, starting in 2003.
Calumet River
The Calumet River is a system of heavily industrialized rivers and canals in the region between the south side of Chicago, Illinois, and the city of Gary, Indiana.
Carbondale, Illinois
Carbondale is a city in Jackson County, Illinois, United States, within the Southern Illinois region informally known as "Little Egypt". Chicago and Carbondale, Illinois are cities in Illinois.
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Carl Sandburg
Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Catholic Church in the United States
The Catholic Church in the United States is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the pope.
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Catholic school
Catholic schools are parochial pre-primary, primary and secondary educational institutions administered in association with the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Theological Union
Catholic Theological Union (CTU) is a Catholic graduate school of theology in Chicago, Illinois.
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CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
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Celery salt
Celery salt is a seasoned salt used to flavour food.
Central Park
Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City that was the first landscaped park in the United States.
Central Time Zone
The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America and some Caribbean islands.
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Century of Progress
A Century of Progress International Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, from 1933 to 1934.
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Charlie Trotter
Charlie Trotter (September 8, 1959 – November 5, 2013) was an American chef and restaurateur.
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Chase Bank
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., doing business as Chase, is an American national bank headquartered in New York City that constitutes the consumer and commercial banking subsidiary of the U.S. multinational banking and financial services holding company, JPMorgan Chase.
Chase Tower (Chicago)
Chase Tower, located in the Chicago Loop area of Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois at 10 South Dearborn Street, is a 60-story skyscraper completed in 1969.
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Chicago "L"
The Chicago "L" (short for "elevated") is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of Illinois.
Chicago (magazine)
Chicago is a monthly magazine published by Tribune Publishing.
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Chicago Architecture Center
The Chicago Architecture Center (CAC), formerly the Chicago Architecture Foundation, is a nonprofit cultural organization based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, whose mission is to inspire people to discover why design matters.
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Chicago Assembly Plant
Chicago Assembly Plant (sometimes referred to as Torrence Avenue Assembly) is Ford Motor Company's oldest continuously operated automobile manufacturing plant.
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Chicago Bears
The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago.
Chicago Blackhawks
The Chicago Blackhawks (spelled Black Hawks until 1986, and known colloquially as the Hawks) are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago.
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Chicago blues
Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois.
Chicago Board of Trade
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), established on April 3, 1848, is one of the world's oldest futures and options exchanges.
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Chicago Board of Trade Building
The Chicago Board of Trade Building is a 44-story, Art Deco skyscraper located in the Chicago Loop, standing at the foot of the LaSalle Street canyon.
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Chicago Botanic Garden
The Chicago Botanic Garden is a botanical garden situated on nine islands in the Cook County Forest Preserves.
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Chicago Building
The Chicago Building or Chicago Savings Bank Building is an early skyscraper, built in 1904–1905.
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Chicago Bulls
The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago.
Chicago City Council
The Chicago City Council is the legislative branch of the government of the City of Chicago in Illinois.
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Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago.
Chicago Festival Ballet
Chicago Festival Ballet is a professional ballet company performing a repertoire of classical, romantic and neoclassical works in venues around the United States.
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Chicago Fire Department
The Chicago Fire Department (CFD) provides firefighting services along with emergency medical response services, hazardous materials mitigation services, and technical rescue response services in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, under the jurisdiction of the Mayor of Chicago.
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Chicago Fire FC
Chicago Fire Football Club is an American professional soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago flood
The Chicago flood occurred on April 13, 1992, when repair work on a bridge spanning the Chicago River damaged the wall of an abandoned and disused utility tunnel beneath the river.
Chicago Freedom Movement
The Chicago Freedom Movement, also known as the Chicago open housing movement, was led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel and Al Raby.
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Chicago hip hop
Chicago hip hop is a regional subgenre of hip hop music that originated in Chicago in the late 1980s in the form of hip house.
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Chicago History Museum
Chicago History Museum is the museum of the Chicago Historical Society (CHS).
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Chicago Imagists
The Chicago Imagists are a group of representational artists associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center in the late 1960s.
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Chicago Loop
The Loop, one of Chicago's 77 designated community areas, is the central business district of the city and is the main section of Downtown Chicago.
Chicago Marathon
The Chicago Marathon is a marathon race held every October in Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago Medical School
The Chicago Medical School (CMS) is a private medical school of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) (often called "the Chicago Merc", or "the Merc") is a global derivatives marketplace based in Chicago and located at 20 S. Wacker Drive.
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Chicago metropolitan area
The Chicago metropolitan area, also referred to as the Greater Chicago Area and Chicagoland, is the largest metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the Midwest, containing the City of Chicago along with its surrounding suburbs and satellite cities.
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Chicago Park District
The Chicago Park District is one of the oldest and the largest park districts in the United States.
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Chicago Picasso
The Chicago Picasso (often just The Picasso) is an untitled monumental sculpture by Pablo Picasso in Daley Plaza in Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago Pile-1
Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) was the world's first artificial nuclear reactor.
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Chicago Police Department
The Chicago Police Department (CPD) is the primary law enforcement agency of the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, under the jurisdiction of the Chicago City Council.
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Chicago Portage
The Chicago Portage was an ancient portage that connected the Great Lakes waterway system with the Mississippi River system.
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Chicago Pride Parade
The Chicago Pride Parade, also colloquially (and formerly) called the Chicago Gay Pride Parade or PRIDE Chicago, is an annual pride parade held on the last Sunday of June in Chicago, Illinois in the United States.
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Chicago Public Library
The Chicago Public Library (CPL) is the public library system that serves the City of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois.
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Chicago Public Schools
Chicago Public Schools (CPS), officially classified as City of Chicago School District #299 for funding and districting reasons, in Chicago, Illinois, is the fourth-largest school district in the United States, after New York, Los Angeles, and Miami-Dade County.
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Chicago race riot of 1919
The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a violent racial conflict between white Americans and black Americans that began on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, on July 27 and ended on August 3, 1919.
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Chicago Reader
The Chicago Reader, or Reader (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater.
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Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency Program
The Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency (CREATE) Program is a $4.6 billion program to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of freight, commuter and intercity passenger rail and to reduce highway delay in the Chicago region.
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Chicago River
The Chicago River is a system of rivers and canals with a combined length of that runs through the city of Chicago, including its center (the Chicago Loop).
Chicago Rockford International Airport
Chicago Rockford International Airport, typically referred to as Rockford International Airport, Chicago Rockford, or by its IATA call letters, RFD, is a commercial airport in Rockford, Illinois, located northwest of Chicago.
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Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, historically known as the Chicago Drainage Canal, is a canal system that connects the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River.
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Chicago school (architecture)
The Chicago School refers to two architectural styles derived from the architecture of Chicago.
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Chicago school of economics
The Chicago school of economics is a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the work of the faculty at the University of Chicago, some of whom have constructed and popularized its principles.
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky is an American professional basketball team based in Chicago.
Chicago soul
Chicago soul is a style of soul music that arose during the 1960s in Chicago.
Chicago State University
Chicago State University (CSU) is a predominantly black (PBI) public university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is an American symphony orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago Transit Authority
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is the operator of mass transit in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and some of its suburbs, including the trains of the Chicago "L" and CTA bus service.
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Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.
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Chicago Tunnel Company
The Chicago Tunnel Company was the builder and operator of a narrow-gauge railway freight tunnel network under downtown Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago Union Station
Chicago Union Station is an intercity and commuter rail terminal located in the West Loop neighborhood of the Near West Side of Chicago.
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Chicago White Sox
The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago.
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Chicago-style hot dog
A Chicago-style hot dog, Chicago Dog, or Chicago Red Hot is an all-beef frankfurter on a poppy seed bun, originating from the city of Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago-style pizza
Chicago-style pizza is pizza prepared according to several styles developed in Chicago.
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Chicken Vesuvio
Chicken Vesuvio, a specialty of Chicago, is an Italian-American dish made from chicken on the bone and wedges of potato sauteed with garlic, oregano, white wine, and olive oil, then baked until the chicken's skin becomes crisp.
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Chili pepper
Chili peppers, also spelled chile or chilli, are varieties of the berry-fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum, which are members of the nightshade family Solanaceae, cultivated for their pungency.
Chinatown, Chicago
Chinatown is a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, along S. Wentworth Avenue between Cermak Road and W. 26th St.
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Cholera
Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Church architecture
Church architecture refers to the architecture of Christian buildings, such as churches, chapels, convents, seminaries, etc.
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CIBC Theatre
CIBC Theatre is a performing arts theater located at 18 West Monroe Street in the Loop area of downtown Chicago.
City Beautiful movement
The City Beautiful movement was a reform philosophy of North American architecture and urban planning that flourished during the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of introducing beautification and monumental grandeur in cities.
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City Colleges of Chicago
The City Colleges of Chicago is the public community college system of the Chicago area.
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Civic Opera House (Chicago)
The Civic Opera House, also called Lyric Opera House is an opera house located at 20 North Wacker Drive in Chicago.
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Claire's
Claire's (formerly known as Claire's Boutiques, Claire's Boutique and Claire's Accessories) is an American retailer of accessories, jewelry, and toys primarily aimed toward tween and teen girls.
Clark Street (Chicago)
Clark Street is a north–south street in Chicago, Illinois that runs close to the shore of Lake Michigan from the northern city boundary with Evanston, to 2200 South in the city street numbering system.
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Cleveland
Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.
Cloud Gate
Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, that is the centerpiece of Grainger Plaza at Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture and Grainger Plaza are located on top of Park Grill, between the Chase Promenade and McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink.
CME Group
CME Group Inc. is a financial services company.
CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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Columbia College Chicago
Columbia College Chicago is a private art college in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Commercial area
Commercial areas in a city are areas, districts, or neighborhoods primarily composed of commercial buildings, such as a strip mall, office parks, downtown, central business district, financial district, "Main Street", or shopping centers.
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Commodity
In economics, a commodity is an economic good, usually a resource, that specifically has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them.
Commonwealth Edison
Commonwealth Edison, commonly known by syllabic abbreviation as ComEd, is the largest electric utility in Illinois, and the primary electric provider in Chicago and much of Northern Illinois.
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Community areas in Chicago
The city of Chicago is divided into 77 community areas for statistical and planning purposes.
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Community college
A community college is a type of undergraduate higher education institution, generally leading to an associate degree, certificate, or diploma.
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Commuter rail
Commuter rail, or suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns.
Conagra Brands
Conagra Brands, Inc. (formerly ConAgra Foods) is an American consumer packaged goods holding company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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Convention (meeting)
A convention (or event), in the sense of a meeting, is a gathering of individuals who meet at an arranged place and time in order to discuss or engage in some common interest.
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Cook County Democratic Party
The Cook County Democratic Party is an American county-level political party organization which represents voters in 50 wards in the city of Chicago and 30 suburban townships of Cook County.
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Cook County, Illinois
Cook County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County, California.
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Copernicus Center (Chicago, Illinois)
The Copernicus Center (formerly Gateway Theatre) is a 1,852-seat former movie palace that is now part of the Copernicus Center in the Jefferson Park community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
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Corruption
Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain.
County seat
A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.
Crain's Chicago Business
Crain's Chicago Business is a weekly business newspaper in Chicago, IL.
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Crate & Barrel
Euromarket Designs Inc., doing business as Crate & Barrel (stylized as Crate&Barrel), is an international furniture and home décor retail store headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois.
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Criminal justice
Criminal justice is the delivery of justice to those who have been accused of committing crimes.
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Critic
A critic is a person who communicates an assessment and an opinion of various forms of creative works such as art, literature, music, cinema, theater, fashion, architecture, and food.
Croatian Americans
Croatian Americans or Croat Americans (Američki Hrvati) are Americans who have full or partial Croatian ancestry.
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Crown Fountain
Crown Fountain is an interactive work of public art and video sculpture featured in Chicago's Millennium Park, which is located in the Loop community area.
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Culture of Chicago
The culture of Chicago, Illinois is known for the invention or significant advancement of several performing arts, including improvisational comedy, house music, industrial music, blues, hip hop, gospel, jazz and soul.
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Cumulus Media
Cumulus Media, Inc., is a broadcasting company of the United States and is the second largest owner and operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States ahead of Audacy and behind iHeartMedia.
Czech Americans
Czech Americans (Čechoameričané), known in the 19th and early 20th century as Bohemian Americans, are citizens of the United States whose ancestry is wholly or partly originate from the Czech lands, a term which refers to the majority of the traditional lands of the Bohemian Crown, namely Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia.
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Czechs
The Czechs (Češi,; singular Czech, masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois)
The Daily Herald is a daily newspaper based in Arlington Heights, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
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Daily Southtown
The Daily Southtown (formerly SouthtownStar) is a newspaper of the Chicago, Illinois, United States, metropolitan area that covers the south suburbs and the South Side neighborhoods of the city – a wide region known as the Chicago Southland.
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Dallas
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.
Dan Ryan Expressway
The Dan Ryan Expressway is an expressway in Chicago that runs from the Jane Byrne Interchange with Interstate 290 (I-290) near Downtown Chicago through the South Side of the city.
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Daniel Burnham
Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban designer.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Demographics of Africa
The population of Africa has grown rapidly over the past century and consequently shows a large youth bulge, further reinforced by a low life expectancy of below 50 years in some African countries.
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Demographics of Chicago
The demographics of Chicago show that it is a large, and ethnically and culturally diverse metropolis.
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DePaul Blue Demons
The DePaul Blue Demons are the athletic teams that represent DePaul University, located in Chicago, Illinois.
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DePaul University
DePaul University is a private Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Derivative (finance)
In finance, a derivative is a contract that derives its value from the performance of an underlying entity.
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Desi
Desi (or or; Hindustani: देसी,,; also Deshi) is a loose term used to describe the peoples, cultures, and products of the Indian subcontinent and their diaspora, derived from Sanskrit देश, meaning 'land' or 'country'.
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Detroit
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. Chicago and Detroit are Inland port cities and towns of the United States.
Devon Avenue
Devon Avenue is a major east-west street in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Dew point
The dew point of a given body of air is the temperature to which it must be cooled to become saturated with water vapor.
Diocese of Chicago
Diocese of Chicago may refer to:;Catholic.
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District attorney
In the United States, a district attorney (DA), county attorney, county prosecutor, state's attorney, prosecuting attorney, commonwealth's attorney, state attorney or solicitor is the chief prosecutor or chief law enforcement officer representing a U.S. state in a local government area, typically a county or a group of counties.
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Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow, is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
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Downers Grove, Illinois
Downers Grove is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States.
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Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.
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Draugas
Draugas (English: Friend) is a Lithuanian-language newspaper based in Chicago.
DuPage County, Illinois
DuPage County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois, and one of the collar counties of the Chicago metropolitan area.
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DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center
The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, formerly the DuSable Museum of African American History, is a museum in Chicago that is dedicated to the study and conservation of African-American history, culture, and art.
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DuSable Park (Chicago)
DuSable Park is a former commercial and industrial site in Chicago.
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Dziennik Związkowy (Polish Daily News)
Dziennik Związkowy (Alliance Daily) or Polish Daily News, is the largest and the oldest Polish language newspaper in the United States.
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East–West University
East–West University is a private university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
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Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.
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Eastern United States
The Eastern United States, often abbreviated as simply the East, is a macroregion of the United States located to the east of the Mississippi River.
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Economy of Chicago
Chicago and its suburbs is home to 35 Fortune 500 companies and is a transportation and distribution center.
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Economy of the United States
The United States is a highly developed/advanced mixed economy.
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Ed Paschke
Edward Francis Paschke (June 22, 1939 – November 25, 2004) was an American painter of Polish descent.
Edison Park, Chicago
Edison Park (formerly Canfield) is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago.
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Electric motorcycles and scooters
Electric motorcycles and scooters are plug-in electric vehicles with two or three wheels.
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Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.
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Ellen Gates Starr
Ellen Gates Starr (March 19, 1859 – February 10, 1940) was an American social reformer and activist.
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Emporis
Emporis was a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany.
Englewood, Chicago
Englewood is a neighborhood and community area located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian and naturalized American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project.
Erikson Institute
Erikson Institute is a graduate school in child development in downtown Chicago, Illinois.
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ESPN Radio
ESPN Radio, which is alternatively branded platform-agnostically as ESPN Audio, is an American sports radio network and extension of the ESPN television network.
Esports
Esports, short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games.
Eugene Sawyer
Eugene Sawyer Jr. (September 3, 1934January 19, 2008) was an American businessman, educator, and politician.
Evangelical Covenant Church
The Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) is a Radical Pietistic denomination of evangelical Christianity.
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant Lutheran church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.
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Exelon
Exelon Corporation is a public utility headquartered in Chicago, and incorporated in Pennsylvania.
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II.
Federal Information Processing Standards
The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (informally the Chicago Fed) is one of twelve Federal Reserve Banks that, along with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, make up the Federal Reserve System, the United States' central bank.
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Feinberg School of Medicine
The Feinberg School of Medicine is the medical school of Northwestern University and is located in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
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Ferrara Candy Company
The Ferrara Candy Company is an American candy manufacturer, based in Chicago, Illinois, and owned by the Ferrero Group.
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Field Museum of Natural History
The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world.
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Fine art
In European academic traditions, fine art is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork.
Fine Arts Building (Chicago)
The ten-story Fine Arts Building, formerly known as the Studebaker Building, is located at 410 S Michigan Avenue across from Grant Park in Chicago in the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District.
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Flag of Chicago
The flag of Chicago consists of two light blue horizontal bars, or stripes, on a field of white, each bar one-sixth the height of the full flag, and placed slightly less than one-sixth of the way from the top and bottom.
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Flambé
Flambé (also spelled flambe) is a cooking procedure in which alcohol is added to a hot pan to create a burst of flames.
Flamingo (sculpture)
Flamingo, created by noted American artist Alexander Calder, is a stabile located in the Federal Plaza in front of the Kluczynski Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Forest Preserve District of Cook County
The Forest Preserve District of Cook County is a governmental commission in Cook County, Illinois, that owns and manages land containing forest, prairie, wetland, streams, and lakes.
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Fort Dearborn
Fort Dearborn was a United States fort, first built in 1803 beside the Chicago River, in what is now Chicago, Illinois.
Fortune 1000
The Fortune 1000 are the 1,000 largest American companies ranked by revenues, as compiled by the American business magazine Fortune.
Fortune 500
The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks 500 of the largest United States corporations by total revenue for their respective fiscal years.
Four Seasons (Chagall)
Four Seasons is a 1974 mosaic by Marc Chagall that is located in Chase Tower Plaza in the Loop district of Chicago, Illinois.
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Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Fox Entertainment division of Fox Corporation, headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.
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Fox News
The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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Frommer's
Frommer's is a travel guide book series created by Arthur Frommer in 1957.
Futures contract
In finance, a futures contract (sometimes called futures) is a standardized legal contract to buy or sell something at a predetermined price for delivery at a specified time in the future, between parties not yet known to each other.
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Futures exchange
A futures exchange or futures market is a central financial exchange where people can trade standardized futures contracts defined by the exchange.
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Galena and Chicago Union Railroad
The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (G&CU) was the first railroad constructed out of Chicago, intended to provide a shipping route between Chicago and the lead mines near Galena, Illinois.
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Gangster
A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang.
Gary, Indiana
Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States.
Gary/Chicago International Airport
Gary/Chicago International Airport is a joint civil-military public airport in Gary, in Lake County, Indiana, United States.
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General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston.
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Generations College
Generations College is a private two-year college in Chicago, Illinois.
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Geographic Names Information System
The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.
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Germans
Germans are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language.
Giardiniera
Giardiniera is an Italian relish of pickled vegetables in vinegar or oil.
Glencoe, Illinois
Glencoe is a lakefront village in northeastern Cook County, Illinois, United States.
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Goodman Theatre
Goodman Theatre is a professional theater company located in Chicago's Loop.
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Gospel music
Gospel music is a genre of Christian Music that spreads the word of God and a cornerstone of Christian media.
Grading (earthworks)
Grading in civil engineering and landscape architectural construction is the work of ensuring a level base, or one with a specified slope, for a construction work such as a foundation, the base course for a road or a railway, or landscape and garden improvements, or surface drainage.
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Grant Achatz
Grant Achatz (born April 25, 1974) is an American chef and restaurateur often recognized for his contributions to molecular gastronomy or progressive cuisine.
Grant Park (Chicago)
Grant Park is a large urban park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.
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Great Chicago Fire
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871.
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Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.
Great Lakes region
The Great Lakes region of Northern America is a binational Canadian–American region centered around the Great Lakes that includes the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and the Canadian province of Ontario.
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Great Migration (African American)
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.
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Greek Americans
Greek Americans (Ελληνοαμερικανοί Ellinoamerikanoí Ελληνοαμερικάνοι Ellinoamerikánoi) are Americans of full or partial Greek ancestry.
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Greek cuisine
Greek cuisine is the cuisine of Greece and the Greek diaspora.
Greektown, Chicago
Greektown is a social and dining district, located on the Near West Side of the United States' city of Chicago, Illinois.
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Green Line (CTA)
The Green Line is a rapid transit line in Chicago, Illinois, operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) as part of the Chicago "L" system.
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Greyhound Lines
Greyhound Lines, Inc. (Greyhound) is a company that operates the largest intercity bus service in North America.
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Grid plan
In urban planning, the grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid.
Gross metropolitan product
Gross metropolitan product (GMP) is a monetary measure of the value of all final goods and services produced within a metropolitan statistical area during a specified period (e.g., a quarter, a year).
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Guaranteed Rate Field
Guaranteed Rate Field, formerly Comiskey Park and U.S. Cellular Field, is a baseball stadium located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher.
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Halsted Street
Halsted Street is a major north-south street in the U.S. city of Chicago, Illinois.
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Hammond, Indiana
Hammond is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States.
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Hardiness zone
A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined as having a certain average annual minimum temperature, a factor relevant to the survival of many plants.
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Harlem
Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan in New York City.
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
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Harold Washington
Harold Lee Washington (April 15, 1922 – November 25, 1987) was an American lawyer and politician who was the 51st Mayor of Chicago.
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Harold Washington College
Harold Washington College is a community college, part of the City Colleges of Chicago system of the City of Chicago, in Illinois, United States.
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Harpo Productions
Harpo Productions (or Harpo Studios) is an American multimedia production company founded by Oprah Winfrey and based in West Hollywood, California.
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Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe (December 23, 1860 – September 26, 1936) was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet, and patron of the arts.
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Harris School of Public Policy
The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy is the public policy school of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Harris Theater (Chicago)
The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance (also known as the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, the Harris & Harris Theater or, most commonly, the Harris Theater) is a 1,499-seat theater for the performing arts located along the northern edge of Millennium Park on Randolph Street in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, US.
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Heat index
The heat index (HI) is an index that combines air temperature and relative humidity, in shaded areas, to posit a human-perceived equivalent temperature, as how hot it would feel if the humidity were some other value in the shade.
Heat wave
A heat wave or heatwave, sometimes described as extreme heat, is a period of abnormally hot weather.
Hegewisch, Chicago
Hegewisch (pronounced "heg-wish" by the locals) is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois, located on the city's far south side.
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Helmut Jahn
Helmut Jahn (January 4, 1940 – May 8, 2021) was a German-American architect, known for projects such as the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany; the Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany; the Thompson Center in Chicago; One Liberty Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Suvarnabhumi Airport, in Bangkok, Thailand, among others.
Henry Darger
Henry Joseph Darger Jr. (April 12, 1892 – April 13, 1973) was an American writer, novelist and artist who worked as a hospital custodian in Chicago, Illinois.
Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist.
Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hinduism in the United States
Hinduism is the fourth-largest religion in the United States, comprising 1% of the population, the same as Buddhism and Islam.
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Hispanic and Latino Americans
Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.
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History of African Americans in Chicago
The history of African Americans in Chicago or Black Chicagoans dates back to Jean Baptiste Point du Sable's trading activities in the 1780s.
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History of Chicago
Chicago has played a central role in American economic, cultural and political history.
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History of the NFL championship
Throughout its history, the National Football League (NFL) and other rival American football leagues have used several different formats to determine their league champions, including a period of inter-league matchups to determine a true national champion.
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Home Insurance Building
The Home Insurance Building was a skyscraper that stood in Chicago from 1885 to its demolition in 1931.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
Hot dog bun
A hot dog bun is a type of soft bun shaped specifically to contain a hot dog or another type of sausage.
House music
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute.
Houston
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is a contemporary dance company based in Chicago.
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Hull House
Hull House was a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
Humboldt Park, Chicago
Humboldt Park, one of 77 designated community areas, is on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois.
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Humid continental climate
A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) and snowy winters.
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Hyde Park Township, Cook County, Illinois
Hyde Park Township is a former civil township in Cook County, Illinois, United States that existed as a separate municipality from 1861 until 1889 when it was annexed into the city of Chicago.
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Hyde Park, Chicago
Hyde Park is a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, located on and near the shore of Lake Michigan south of the Loop.
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Ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.
Ida Crown Jewish Academy
Ida Crown Jewish Academy is a Modern Orthodox Jewish high school in Skokie, Illinois, under the auspicies of the Associated Talmud Torahs.
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Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Illinois and Michigan Canal
The Illinois and Michigan Canal connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Illinois Tech and IIT, is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Illinois Medical District
The Illinois Medical District (IMD) is a special-use zoning district two miles west of the Loop in Chicago, Illinois.
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Illinois River
The Illinois River (Inoka Siipiiwi) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River at approximately in length.
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Illinois Route 50
Illinois Route 50 (IL 50) is a north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois.
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Illinois's congressional districts
Illinois is divided into 17 congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives.
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Imagism
Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language.
Immigration to the United States
Immigration to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of its history.
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Improvisational theatre
Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted, created spontaneously by the performers.
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Independent music
Independent music (also commonly known as indie music, or simply indie) is a broad style of music characterized by creative freedoms, low-budgets, and a do-it-yourself approach to music creation, which originated from the liberties afforded by independent record labels.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indian removal
The Indian removal was the United States government's policy of ethnic cleansing through the forced displacement of self-governing tribes of American Indians from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi Riverspecifically, to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, present-day Oklahoma), which many scholars have labeled a genocide.
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Indigenous languages of the Americas
The Indigenous languages of the Americas are a diverse group of languages that originated in the Americas prior to colonization, many of which continue to be spoken.
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Industrial district
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Industrial music
Industrial music is a genre of music that draws on harsh, mechanical, transgressive, or provocative sounds and themes.
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Inland Northern American English
Inland Northern (American) English, also known in American linguistics as the Inland North or Great Lakes dialect, is an American English dialect spoken primarily by White Americans in a geographic band reaching from the major urban areas of Upstate New York westward along the Erie Canal and through much of the U.S.
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa (ISAC; formerly the Oriental Institute), established in 1919, is the University of Chicago's interdisciplinary research center for ancient Near Eastern studies and archaeology museum.
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Integrys Energy Group
Integrys Energy Group, Inc. was an American energy company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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Interstate 190 (Illinois)
Interstate 190 (I-190) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway in the US state of Illinois.
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Interstate 290 (Illinois)
Interstate 290 (I-290) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that runs westward from the Jane Byrne Interchange near the Chicago Loop.
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Interstate 294
Interstate 294 (I-294) is a tolled auxiliary Interstate Highway in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Illinois.
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Interstate 355
Interstate 355 (I-355), also known as the Veterans Memorial Tollway, is an Interstate Highway and tollway in the western and southwest suburbs of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois.
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Interstate 55 in Illinois
Interstate 55 (I-55) is a major north–south Interstate Highway in the US state of Illinois that connects St. Louis, Missouri, to the Chicago metropolitan area.
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Interstate 57
Interstate 57 (I-57) is a north–south Interstate Highway in Missouri and Illinois that parallels the old Illinois Central Railroad for much of its route.
Interstate 65 in Indiana
Interstate 65 (I-65) in the US state of Indiana traverses from the south-southeastern Falls City area bordering Louisville, Kentucky, through the centrally located capital city of Indianapolis, to the northwestern Calumet Region of the Hoosier State which is part of the Chicago metropolitan area.
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Interstate 80 in Illinois
Interstate 80 (I-80) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey.
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Interstate 80 in Indiana
Interstate 80 (I-80) is a transcontinental Interstate Highway in the United States, stretching from San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey.
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Interstate 88 (Illinois)
Interstate 88 (I-88) is an Interstate Highway in the US state of Illinois that runs from an interchange with I-80 near Silvis and Moline to an interchange with I-290 and I-294 in Hillside, near Chicago.
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Interstate 90 in Illinois
Interstate 90 (I-90) in the US state of Illinois runs roughly northwest-to-southeast through the northern part of the state.
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Interstate 94 in Illinois
Interstate 94 (I-94) generally runs north–south through the northeastern portion of the US state of Illinois, in Lake and Cook counties.
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Interstate 94 in Indiana
Interstate 94 (I-94) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from Billings, Montana, to Port Huron, Michigan.
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Interstate Highway System
The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, or the Eisenhower Interstate System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States.
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IO Theater
iO, or iO Chicago, (formerly known as "ImprovOlympic") is an improv theater and training center in central Chicago, with a former branch in Los Angeles, called iO West and in Raleigh, North Carolina called iO South.
Ion Television
Ion Television (currently known on-air as simply Ion) is an American broadcast television network and FAST television channel owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company.
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Irish people
Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common ancestry, history and culture.
Iroquois County, Illinois
Iroquois County is a county located in the northeast part of the U.S. state of Illinois. Chicago and Iroquois County, Illinois are 1833 establishments in Illinois and populated places established in 1833.
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Irreligion
Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.
Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Islam in the United States
Islam is the third-largest religion in the United States (1.34%), behind Christianity (67%) and Judaism (2.07%).
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Italian Americans
Italian Americans (italoamericani) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry.
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Italian beef
An Italian beef is a sandwich, originating in Chicago, made from thin slices of roast beef simmered and served nocat on French bread.
Ivan Albright
Ivan Le Lorraine Albright (February 20, 1897 – November 18, 1983) was an American painter, sculptor and print-maker most renowned for his self-portraits, character studies, and still lifes.
Jackscrew
A jackscrew, or screw jack, is a type of jack that is operated by turning a leadscrew.
Jackson Park (Chicago)
Jackson Park is a urban park located on the South Side of Chicago.
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James Merrill
James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet.
Jane Addams
Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author.
Jane Byrne
Jane Margaret Byrne (née Burke; May 24, 1933November 14, 2014) was an American politician who served as the 50th mayor of Chicago from April 16, 1979, until April 29, 1983.
Jaume Plensa
Jaume Plensa i Suñé (born 23 August 1955) is a Spanish visual artist, sculptor, designer and engraver.
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; before 1750 – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder.
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Jean Dubuffet
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor of the Ecole de Paris (School of Paris).
Jeff Award
The Joseph Jefferson Award, more commonly known informally as the Jeff Award, is given for theatre arts produced in the Chicago area.
Jeff Smith (chef)
Jeffrey L. Smith (January 22, 1939 – July 7, 2004) was the author of several cookbooks and the host of The Frugal Gourmet, a popular American cooking show.
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Jefferson Park, Chicago
Jefferson Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, located on the northwest side of the city.
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination.
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Jewish United Fund
The Jewish United Fund of Chicago (JUF) is the central philanthropic address of Chicago's Jewish community and one of the largest not-for-profit social welfare institutions in Illinois.
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Jibarito
The jibarito, is a sandwich made with flattened, fried green plantains instead of bread, aioli or garlic-flavored mayonnaise, and a filling that typically includes meat, cheese, lettuce and tomato.
Jim Nutt
James T. Nutt (born November 28, 1938) is an American artist who was a founding member of the Chicago surrealist art movement known as the Chicago Imagists, or the Hairy Who.
Joffrey Ballet
The Joffrey Ballet is an American dance company and training institution in Chicago, Illinois.
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John Ashbery
John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic.
John Crerar (industrialist)
John Crerar (8 March 1827 – 19 October 1889) was a wealthy American industrialist and businessman from Chicago whose investments were primarily in the railroad industry.
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John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County
The John H. Stroger Jr.
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John Hancock Center
The John Hancock Center is a 100-story, 1,128-foot supertall skyscraper located in Chicago, Illinois.
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Joliet Junior College
Joliet Junior College (JJC) is a public community college in Joliet, Illinois.
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Judaism
Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.
Judge Mathis
Judge Mathis is an American arbitration-based reality court show presided over by Judge Greg Mathis, a former judge of Michigan's 36th District Court and Black-interests motivational speaker/activist.
Julius Rosenwald
Julius Rosenwald (August 12, 1862 – January 6, 1932) was an American businessman and philanthropist.
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Junior college
A junior college is a type of post-secondary institution that offers vocational and academic training that is designed to prepare students for either skilled trades and technical occupations or support roles in professions such as engineering, accountancy, business administration, nursing, medicine, architecture, and criminology.
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Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction (from Latin juris 'law' + dictio 'speech' or 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice.
Kansas–Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kennedy Expressway
The John F. Kennedy Expressway is a nearly freeway in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Kennedy–King College
Kennedy–King College (KKC) part of City Colleges of Chicago, is a public two-year community college in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Kenwood, Chicago
Kenwood, one of Chicago's 77 community areas, is on the shore of Lake Michigan on the South Side of the city.
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Ketchup
Ketchup or catsup is a table condiment with a sweet and sour flavor.
Labor history of the United States
The nature and power of organized labor in the United States is the outcome of historical tensions among counter-acting forces involving workplace rights, wages, working hours, political expression, labor laws, and other working conditions.
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Lake Calumet
Lake Calumet is the largest body of water within the city of Chicago.
Lake freighter
Lake freighters, or lakers, are bulk carrier vessels operating on the Great Lakes of North America.
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Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.
Lake Shore Drive
Lake Shore Drive (officially Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable Lake Shore Drive; also known as DuSable Lake Shore Drive, The Outer Drive, The Drive, LSD or DLSD) is an expressway that runs alongside the shoreline of Lake Michigan, and adjacent to parkland and beaches, in Chicago, Illinois.
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Lake View, Chicago
Lakeview, also spelled Lake View, is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois.
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Lake-effect snow
Lake-effect snow is produced during cooler atmospheric conditions when a cold air mass moves across long expanses of warmer lake water.
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Lamb Chop's Play-Along
Lamb Chop's Play-Along! is a half-hour preschool children's television series that was shown on PBS in the United States from January 13, 1992, until September 22, 1995, with reruns airing on PBS until January 4, 1998, and on KTV FAVE - KIDZ 2019.
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Landfill
A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials.
Large Interior Form, 1953–54
Large Interior Form, 1953–54 (LH 297b) is a sculpture by Henry Moore.
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Las Vegas
Las Vegas, often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Legislature
A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city.
Leon Golub
Leon Golub (January 23, 1922 – August 8, 2004) was an American painter.
LGBT
is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".
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Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park is a park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.
Lincoln Park Conservatory
The Lincoln Park Conservatory (1.2 ha / 3 acres) is a conservatory and botanical garden in Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois.
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Lincoln Park Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo, also known as Lincoln Park Zoological Gardens, is a zoo in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois.
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List of beaches in Chicago
The beaches in Chicago are an extensive network of waterfront recreational areas operated by the Chicago Park District.
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List of busiest airports by passenger traffic
The world's busiest airports by passenger traffic are measured by total passengers provided by the Airports Council International, defined as passengers enplaned plus passengers deplaned plus direct-transit passengers.
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List of cities by GDP
This is a list of cities in the world by nominal gross domestic product (GDP).
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List of colleges and universities in Chicago
The following is a list of colleges and universities in the Chicago metropolitan area.
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List of counties in Illinois
There are 102 counties in Illinois.
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List of festivals in Chicago
This is a list of festivals in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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List of largest buildings
Buildings around the world listed by usable space (volume), footprint (area), and floor space (area) comprise single structures that are suitable for continuous human occupancy.
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List of municipalities in Illinois
Illinois is a state located in the Midwestern United States.
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List of museums and cultural institutions in Chicago
The city of Chicago, Illinois, has many cultural institutions and museums, large and small.
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List of neighborhoods in Chicago
There are 178 official neighborhoods in Chicago.
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List of tallest buildings and structures
The world's tallest human-made structure is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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List of tallest buildings in Chicago
Chicago, the third-largest city in the United States, is home to 1,397 completed high-rises, 56 of which stand taller than.
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List of the most populous counties in the United States
This is a list of the 100 most populous of the 3,144 counties in the United States based on the national decennial US census conducted on April 1, 2020 and vintage Census population estimates for July 1, 2023.
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List of United States cities by population
This is a list of the most populous incorporated places of the United States.
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List of United States over-the-air television networks
In the United States, for most of the history of broadcasting, there were only three or four major commercial national terrestrial networks.
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List of United States urban areas
This is a list of urban areas in the United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau, ordered according to their 2020 census populations.
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Lithuanian Americans
Lithuanian Americans (Amerikos lietuviai) refers to American citizens and residents who are Lithuanian and were born in Lithuania, or are of Lithuanian descent.
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Lithuanian language
Lithuanian is an East Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.
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Lithuanian Opera Company of Chicago
The Lithuanian Opera Company of Chicago was founded by Lithuanian emigrants in 1956, and presents operas in Lithuanian.
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Lithuanians in the Chicago area
Lithuanians in Chicago and the nearby metropolitan area are a prominent group within the "Windy City" whose presence goes back over a hundred years.
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Little Italy, Chicago
Little Italy, sometimes combined with University Village into one neighborhood, is on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois.
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Local ordinance
A local ordinance is a law issued by a local government such as a municipality, county, parish, prefecture, or the like.
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Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza (Lolla) is an annual American four-day music festival held in Grant Park in Chicago.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
Lou Malnati's Pizzeria
Lou Malnati's Pizzeria is an American Chicago-style pizza restaurant chain headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois.
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Louis Sullivan
Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism." He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.
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Low-pressure area
In meteorology, a low-pressure area, low area or low is a region where the atmospheric pressure is lower than that of surrounding locations.
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Lower West Side, Chicago
Lower West Side is a community area on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Loyola Ramblers
The Loyola Ramblers (also called the Loyola Chicago Ramblers) are the varsity sports teams of Loyola University Chicago.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect, academic, and interior designer.
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Lutheran school
A Lutheran school is a school associated with Lutheranism.
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Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) is a seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Chicago, Illinois.
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Lyft
Lyft, Inc. is an American company offering mobility as a service, ride-hailing, vehicles for hire, motorized scooters, a bicycle-sharing system, rental cars, and food delivery in the United States and select cities in Canada.
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Lyric Opera of Chicago
Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States.
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Madison Street (Chicago)
Madison Street is a major east–west street in Chicago, Illinois.
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Magdalena Abakanowicz
Magdalena Abakanowicz (20 June 1930 – 20 April 2017) was a Polish sculptor and fiber artist.
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Magnificent Mile
The Magnificent Mile, sometimes referred to as The Mag Mile, is an upscale section of Chicago's Michigan Avenue, running from the Chicago River to Oak Street in the Near North Side.
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Mainline Protestant
The mainline Protestant churches (sometimes also known as oldline Protestants) are a group of Protestant denominations in the United States and Canada largely of the theologically liberal or theologically progressive persuasion that contrast in history and practice with the largely theologically conservative Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Charismatic, Confessional, Confessing Movement, historically Black church, and Global South Protestant denominations and congregations.
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Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.
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Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States.
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Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada
Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada traditionally include four leagues: Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), and the National Hockey League (NHL).
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Malcolm X College
Malcolm X College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, is a two-year college located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois.
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Man Enters the Cosmos
Man Enters the Cosmos is a cast bronze sculpture by Henry Moore located on the Lake Michigan lakefront outside the Adler Planetarium in the Museum Campus area of downtown Chicago, Illinois.
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Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons.
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Marshall Field
Marshall Field (August 18, 1834January 16, 1906) was an American entrepreneur and the founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago-based department stores.
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Marshall Field's
Marshall Field & Company (commonly known as Marshall Field's) was an upscale department store in Chicago, Illinois.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
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Maxwell Street Polish
A Maxwell Street Polish consists of a grilled or fried length of Polish sausage topped with grilled onions and yellow mustard and optional pickled whole, green sport peppers, served on a bun.
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Mayor of Chicago
The mayor of Chicago is the chief executive of city government in Chicago, Illinois, the third-largest city in the United States.
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Maywood, Illinois
Maywood is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, in the Chicago metropolitan area.
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McCormick Place
McCormick Place is a convention center in Chicago.
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McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States.
Meigs Field
Merrill C. Meigs Field Airport (pronounced, formerly) was a single-runway airport in Chicago that was in operation from 1948 to 2003, when it was bulldozed overnight by then-mayor Richard M. Daley.
Merchandise Mart
The Merchandise Mart (or the Merch Mart, or the Mart) is a commercial building located in downtown Chicago, Illinois.
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Meskwaki
The Meskwaki (sometimes spelled Mesquaki), also known by the European exonyms Fox Indians or the Fox, are a Native American people.
Metaxa
Metaxa (Μεταξά) is a line of branded Greek alcoholic drinks, each a flavored amber blend of spirits and Muscat wine, aged in oak barrels, and packaged in amphora-shaped bottles.
Metra
Metra is the primary commuter rail system in the Chicago metropolitan area serving the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs via the Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, and other railroads.
Metra Electric District
The Metra Electric District is an electrified commuter rail line owned and operated by Metra which connects Millennium Station (formerly Randolph Street Station), in downtown Chicago, with the city's southern suburbs.
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Metropolitan statistical area
In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the region.
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MeTV
MeTV, an acronym for Memorable Entertainment Television, is an American broadcast television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting.
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Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans (mexicano-estadounidenses, mexico-americanos, or estadounidenses de origen mexicano) are Americans of Mexican heritage.
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Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
Miami
Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.
Miami people
The Miami (Miami–Illinois: Myaamiaki) are a Native American nation originally speaking one of the Algonquian languages.
Miami–Illinois language
Miami–Illinois (endonym: myaamia), also known as Irenwa or Irenwe, is an indigenous Algonquian language spoken in the United States, primarily in Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, western Ohio and adjacent areas along the Mississippi River by the Miami and Wea as well as the tribes of the Illinois Confederation, including the Kaskaskia, Peoria, Tamaroa, and possibly Mitchigamea.
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Michael Flanagan (American politician)
Michael Patrick Flanagan (born November 9, 1962) is a former captain in the United States Army, a practicing attorney, and a Republican Party politician from Chicago, Illinois.
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Michael Jordan
Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials MJ, is an American businessman and former professional basketball player.
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Michelin Guide
The Michelin Guides are a series of guide books that have been published by the French tyre company Michelin since 1900.
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Michelle Obama
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (Robinson; born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017, being married to Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.
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Michigan Avenue (Chicago)
Michigan Avenue is a north-south street in Chicago that runs at 100 east on the Chicago grid.
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Midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan is the central portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan and serves as the city's primary central business district.
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Midway International Airport
Chicago Midway International Airport is a major commercial airport on the Southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, located approximately 12 miles (19 km) from the city's Loop business district.
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Midway Plaisance
The Midway Plaisance, known locally as the Midway, is a public park on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.
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Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau.
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Midwestern University
Midwestern University (MWU) is a private medical and professional school with campuses in Downers Grove, Illinois and Glendale, Arizona.
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Millennium Park
Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Milwaukee County.
Miró's Chicago
Miró's Chicago (originally called The Sun, the Moon and One Star) is a sculpture by Joan Miró in Brunswick Plaza, Chicago, United States.
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Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.
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Missouri Valley Conference
The Missouri Valley Conference (also called MVC or simply "The Valley") is the fourth-oldest collegiate athletic conference in the United States.
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MLS Cup
The MLS Cup is the annual championship game of Major League Soccer (MLS) and the culmination of the MLS Cup Playoffs.
Moline, Illinois
Moline is a city located in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. Chicago and Moline, Illinois are cities in Illinois.
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Montenegrin Americans
Montenegrin Americans are Americans who are of Montenegrin origin.
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Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward is the name of two successive U.S. retail corporations.
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Monument with Standing Beast
Monument with Standing Beast is a sculpture by Jean Dubuffet previously located in front of the Helmut Jahn designed James R. Thompson Center in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.
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Moody Bible Institute
Moody Bible Institute (MBI) is a private evangelical Christian Bible college in Chicago, Illinois.
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Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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Mother Teresa
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu,; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.
Municipal corporation
Municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.
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Museum Campus
Museum Campus is a park in Chicago facing Lake Michigan in Grant Park.
Museum of Broadcast Communications
The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) is an American museum, the stated mission of which is "to collect, preserve, and present historic and contemporary radio and television content as well as educate, inform and entertain through our archives, public programs, screenings, exhibits, publications and online access to our resources." It is headquartered in Chicago.
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)
The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (MSI), formerly known as the Museum of Science and Industry, is a science museum located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago.
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MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV (stylized as myNetworkTV; unofficially abbreviated MyTV, MyNet, MNT or MNTV, and sometimes referred to as My Network) is an American commercial broadcast television syndication service and former television network owned by Fox Corporation, operated by its Fox Television Stations division, and distributed through the syndication structure of Fox First Run.
Naperville, Illinois
Naperville is a city in DuPage and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. Chicago and Naperville, Illinois are cities in Illinois.
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National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and one in Canada.
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National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).
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National Hockey League
The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey, LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.
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National Louis University
National Louis University (NLU) is a private nonprofit university with its main campus in Chicago, Illinois.
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National Mall and Memorial Parks
National Mall and Memorial Parks (formerly known as National Capital Parks-Central) is an administrative unit of the National Park Service (NPS) encompassing many national memorials and other areas in Washington, D.C. Federally owned and administered parks in the capital area date back to 1790, some of the oldest in the United States.
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National Museum of Mexican Art
The National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA), formerly known as the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, is a museum featuring Mexican, Latino, and Chicano art and culture.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
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National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".
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National Weather Service
The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information.
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.
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Navy Pier
Navy Pier is a pier on the shoreline of Lake Michigan, located in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community area in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
NBA Finals
The NBA Finals is the annual championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
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NBC Tower
The NBC Tower is an office tower on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois located at 454 North Columbus Drive (455 North Cityfront Plaza is also used as a vanity address) in downtown Chicago's Magnificent Mile area.
NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally.
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Near East
The Near East is a transcontinental region around the East Mediterranean encompassing parts of West Asia, the Balkans, and North Africa, specifically the historical Fertile Crescent, the Levant, Anatolia, East Thrace, and Egypt.
Near North Side, Chicago
The Near North Side is the eighth of Chicago's 77 community areas.
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Near South Side, Chicago
The Near South Side is a community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States, just south of the downtown central business district, the Loop.
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Near West Side, Chicago
The Near West Side, one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, is on the West Side, west of the Chicago River and adjacent to the Loop.
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Nederlander Theatre (Chicago)
The James M. Nederlander Theatre is a theater located at 24 West Randolph Street in the Loop area of downtown Chicago, Illinois.
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New wave music
New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
NewsNation
NewsNation is an American subscription television network owned by the Nexstar Media Group, and is the company's only wholly owned, national cable-originated television channel.
Nexstar Media Group
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. is an American publicly traded media company with headquarters in Irving, Texas, Midtown Manhattan, and Chicago.
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Nicknames of Chicago
Throughout the history of Chicago, there have been many nicknames for the city of Chicago, Illinois.
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North American Numbering Plan
The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean.
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North Chicago, Illinois
North Chicago is a city in Lake County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of the Chicago metropolitan area. Chicago and North Chicago, Illinois are cities in Illinois and Illinois populated places on Lake Michigan.
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North Park University
North Park University is a private Christian university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Northeast Conference
The Northeast Conference (NEC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
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Northerly Island
Northerly Island (also Northerly Island Park) is a human-made peninsula and park located on Chicago's Lake Michigan lakefront.
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Northern Illinois
Northern Illinois is a region generally covering the northern third of the U.S. state of Illinois.
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Northwest Indian War
The Northwest Indian War (1785–1795), also known by other names, was an armed conflict for control of the Northwest Territory fought between the United States and a united group of Native American nations known today as the Northwestern Confederacy.
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Northwest Indiana
Northwest Indiana, nicknamed The Region after the Calumet Region, is an unofficial region of northern Indiana, United States that is located at the northwestern corner of the state.
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) is a nationally ranked academic medical center located on Northwestern University's Chicago campus in Streeterville, Chicago, Illinois.
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Northwestern University
Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois.
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Northwestern Wildcats
The Northwestern Wildcats are the athletic teams that represent Northwestern University, located in Evanston, Illinois.
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NYSE Chicago
NYSE Chicago, formerly known as the Chicago Stock Exchange (CHX), is a stock exchange in Chicago, Illinois, US.
O'Hare International Airport
Chicago O'Hare International Airport is a major international airport serving Chicago, Illinois, United States, located on the city's Northwest Side, approximately northwest of the Loop business district.
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Oak Park, Illinois
Oak Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, adjacent to Chicago.
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Objectivism (poetry)
The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernists who emerged in the 1930s.
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Odawa
The Odawa (also Ottawa or Odaawaa) are an Indigenous American people who primarily inhabit land in the Eastern Woodlands region, now in jurisdictions of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.
Ojibwe
The Ojibwe (syll.: ᐅᒋᐺ; plural: Ojibweg ᐅᒋᐺᒃ) are an Anishinaabe people whose homeland (Ojibwewaki ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ) covers much of the Great Lakes region and the northern plains, extending into the subarctic and throughout the northeastern woodlands.
Olive–Harvey College
Olive–Harvey College is a community college in Chicago's far South Side, and is a part of the City Colleges of Chicago.
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One World Trade Center
One World Trade Center, also known as One World Trade, One WTC, and formerly called the Freedom Tower during initial planning stages, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
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Onion
An onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.
Orange Line (CTA)
The Orange Line is a rapid transit line in Chicago, Illinois, operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) as part of the Chicago "L" system.
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Original Six
The Original Six are the teams that composed the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1942 and 1967.
Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States.
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Osteopathic medicine in the United States
Osteopathic medicine is a branch of the medical profession in the United States that promotes the practice of science-based medicine, often referred to in this context as allopathic medicine, with a set of philosophy and principles set by its earlier form, osteopathy.
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Oswego, Illinois
Oswego is a village in Kendall and Will counties, Illinois, United States. Chicago and Oswego, Illinois are 1833 establishments in Illinois and populated places established in 1833.
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Outsider art
Outsider art is art made by self-taught individuals who are untrained and untutored in the traditional arts with typically little or no contact with the conventions of the art worlds.
Pace (transit)
Pace is the suburban bus and regional paratransit division of the Regional Transportation Authority serving the Chicago metropolitan area.
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Paratransit
Paratransit (the term used in North America) or Intermediate Public Transport (also known by other names such as community transport (UK)), is a type of transportation services that supplement fixed-route mass transit by providing individualized rides without fixed routes or timetables.
Parking meter
A parking meter is a device used to collect money in exchange for the right to park a vehicle in a particular place for a limited amount of time.
Parks in Chicago
Parks in Chicago include open spaces and facilities, developed and managed by the Chicago Park District.
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Parliament of the World's Religions
There have been several meetings referred to as a Parliament of the World's Religions, the first being the World's Parliament of Religions of 1893, which was an attempt to create a global dialogue of faiths.
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Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is a natural history museum located in Chicago, Illinois, and operated by the Chicago Academy of Sciences.
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Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit.
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Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center (also simply known as Pew) is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
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Ping Tom Memorial Park
Ping Tom Memorial Park is a public urban park in Chicago's Chinatown neighborhood, in South Side, Chicago.
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Pink Line (CTA)
The Pink Line is an rapid transit line in Chicago, run by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) as part of the Chicago "L" system.
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Pitchfork Music Festival
The Pitchfork Music Festival is an annual music festival in Union Park in Chicago, Illinois, organized by the online magazine Pitchfork. Starting in 2011, the festival announced a branch staged in Paris at Grande halle de la Villette.
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Poetry (magazine)
Poetry (founded as Poetry: A Magazine of Verse) has been published in Chicago since 1912.
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Poetry slam
A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word poetry before a live audience and a panel of judges.
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
Poles in Chicago
Both immigrant Poles and Americans of Polish heritage live in Chicago, Illinois.
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Polish Americans
Polish Americans (Polonia amerykańska) are Americans who either have total or partial Polish ancestry, or are citizens of the Republic of Poland.
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Polish cathedral style
The Polish cathedral architectural style is a North American genre of Catholic church architecture found throughout the Great Lakes and Middle Atlantic regions as well as in parts of New England.
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Polish language
Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.
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Polish Museum of America
The Polish Museum of America is located in West Town, in what had been the historical Polish Downtown neighborhood of Chicago.
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Polish people
Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.
Political machine
In the politics of representative democracies, a political machine is a party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives (such as money or political jobs) and that is characterized by a high degree of leadership control over member activity.
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Pontiac, Michigan
Pontiac is a city in and the county seat of Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Poppy seed
Poppy seed is an oilseed obtained from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum).
Pork ribs
Pork ribs are a cut of pork popular in Western and Asian cuisines.
Port Huron, Michigan
Port Huron is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of St. Clair County.
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Port of Chicago
The Port of Chicago consists of several major port facilities within the city of Chicago, Illinois, operated by the Illinois International Port District (formerly known as the Chicago Regional Port District).
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Portland, Oregon
Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.
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Potawatomi
The Potawatomi, also spelled Pottawatomi and Pottawatomie (among many variations), are a Native American people of the Great Plains, upper Mississippi River, and western Great Lakes region.
Prairie
Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.
Prairie School
Prairie School is a late 19th and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States.
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Presbyterianism
Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders.
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Primary election
Party primaries or primary elections are elections in which a political party selects a candidate for an upcoming general election.
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Pritzker Military Museum & Library
The Pritzker Military Museum & Library (formerly Pritzker Military Library) is a non-profit museum and a research library for the study of military history on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.
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Pronunciation of English ⟨a⟩
There are a variety of pronunciations in Modern English and in historical forms of the language for words spelled with the a.
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Proposed Chicago south suburban airport
The proposed Chicago south suburban airport (also referred to as the Peotone airport) is a proposed airport that would be located in Peotone, Illinois, United States, approximately south of Chicago.
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Public art
Public art is art in any media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process.
Public Land Survey System
The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling.
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Public Radio International
Public Radio International (PRI) was an American public radio organization.
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Puerto Rican cuisine
Puerto Rican cuisine consists of the cooking style and traditional dishes original to Puerto Rico.
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Pulitzer Center
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an American news media organization established in 2006 that sponsors independent reporting on global issues that other media outlets are less willing or able to undertake on their own.
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Pullman Strike
The Pullman Strike was two interrelated strikes in 1894 that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression.
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Pullman, Chicago
Pullman, one of Chicago's 77 defined community areas, is a neighborhood located on the city's South Side.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.
Purple Line (CTA)
The Purple Line of the Chicago "L" is a route on the northernmost section of the system.
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Quincy, Illinois
Quincy is a city in and the county seat of Adams County, Illinois, United States, located on the Mississippi River. Chicago and Quincy, Illinois are cities in Illinois and county seats in Illinois.
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Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Israel Emanuel (born November 29, 1959) is an American politician and diplomat currently serving as United States ambassador to Japan.
Railroad classes
Railroad classes are the system by which freight railroads are designated in the United States.
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Rave
A rave (from the verb: to rave) is a dance party at a warehouse, club, or other public or private venue, typically featuring performances by DJs playing electronic dance music.
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Ravinia Festival
Ravinia Festival is an outdoor music venue in Highland Park, Illinois.
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Red Line (CTA)
The Red Line is a rapid transit line in Chicago, run by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) as part of the Chicago "L" system.
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Red states and blue states
Starting with the 2000 United States presidential election, the terms "red state" and "blue state" have referred to U.S. states whose voters vote predominantly for one party—the Republican Party in red states and the Democratic Party in blue states—in presidential and other statewide elections.
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Redlining
Redlining is a discriminatory practice in which financial services are withheld from neighborhoods that have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities.
Regional Transportation Authority (Illinois)
The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) is the financial and oversight body for the three transit agencies in northeastern Illinois; the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra, and Pace, which are called Service Boards in the RTA Act.
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René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (November 22, 1643 – March 19, 1687), was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America.
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Rent strike
A rent strike is a method of protest commonly employed against large landlords.
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Retail
Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers.
Richard J. Daley
Richard Joseph Daley (May 15, 1902 – December 20, 1976) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Chicago from 1955, and the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party Central Committee from 1953, until his death.
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Richard J. Daley College
Richard J. Daley College is a public, two-year community college in Chicago, one of the seven City Colleges of Chicago.
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Richard M. Daley
Richard Michael Daley (born April 24, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 54th mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1989 to 2011.
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Richard T. Crane
Richard Teller Crane I (May 15, 1832 – January 8, 1912) was the founder of R.T. Crane & Bro., a Chicago-based manufacturer, later Crane Co.
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Rick Bayless
Rick Bayless (born November 23, 1953) is an American chef and restaurateur who specializes in traditional Mexican cuisine with modern interpretations.
Rick Tramonto
Richard Michael Tramonto (born May 30, 1963) is a Chicago chef and cookbook author.
River North Gallery District, Near North Side, Chicago
The River North Gallery District or simply River North, in Chicago, is in the Near North Side, Chicago.
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Robb Report
The Robb Report is an American, English-language, luxury-lifestyle magazine featuring products, including automobiles, aviation, boating, real estate and watches.
Robbery
Robbery (from Old French rober ("to steal, ransack, etc."), from Proto-West Germanic *rauba ("booty")) is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by use of fear.
Robert Lostutter
Robert Lostutter (born 1939) is a Chicago-based artist.
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Robert Morris University Illinois
Robert Morris University Illinois, formerly Robert Morris College, was a private university with its main campus in Chicago, Illinois.
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Robert P. Hanrahan
Robert Paul Hanrahan (February 25, 1934 – January 7, 2011) was a former U.S. Representative from Illinois.
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Robie House
The Frederick C. Robie House is a historic house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1908-09 and constructed in 1909-10.
Rochester, New York
Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Monroe County.
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Rockford, Illinois
Rockford is a city in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States. Chicago and Rockford, Illinois are cities in Illinois and county seats in Illinois.
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Roger Brown (artist)
Roger Brown (December 10, 1941 – November 22, 1997) was an American artist and painter.
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Rogers Park, Chicago
Rogers Park is the first of Chicago's 77 community areas.
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago
The Archdiocese of Chicago (Archidiœcesis Chicagiensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction, an archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in Northeastern Illinois, in the United States.
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Romanian Americans
Romanian Americans (Români Americani) are Americans who have Romanian ancestry.
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Roosevelt University
Roosevelt University is a private university with campuses in Chicago and Schaumburg, Illinois.
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Rush University
Rush University is a private university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Rush University Medical Center
Rush University Medical Center (Rush) is an academic medical center in the Illinois Medical District neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
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Russian Americans
Russian Americans (p) are Americans of full or partial Russian ancestry.
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Ryan AbilityLab
The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), is a not-for-profit nationally ranked physical medicine and rehabilitation research hospital based in Chicago, Illinois.
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Saganaki
In Greek cuisine, saganaki (Greek σαγανάκι) is any one of a variety of dishes prepared in a small frying pan, the best-known being an appetizer of fried cheese.
Sailing ship
A sailing ship is a sea-going vessel that uses sails mounted on masts to harness the power of wind and propel the vessel.
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day 1929.
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Saint Xavier University
Saint Xavier University (or SXU) is a private Roman Catholic university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Saint-Domingue
Saint-Domingue was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1697 to 1804.
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Same-sex marriage in Illinois
Same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in Illinois since a law signed by Governor Pat Quinn on November 20, 2013 took effect on June 1, 2014.
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San Antonio
San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 US census.
Sanctuary city
A sanctuary city is a municipality that limits or denies its cooperation with the national government in enforcing immigration law.
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Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and streams on Peacock.
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Sauk people
The Sauk or Sac are Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands.
School district
A school district is a special-purpose district that operates local public primary or secondary schools or both in various countries.
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois.
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Schwinn Bicycle Company
The Schwinn Bicycle Company is an American company that develops, manufactures and markets bicycles under the eponymous brand name.
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Sears
Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago.
SeatGeek Stadium
SeatGeek Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium in Bridgeview, Illinois, about twelve miles southwest of downtown Chicago.
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Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.
Second Great Migration (African American)
In the context of the 20th-century history of the United States, the Second Great Migration was the migration of more than 5 million African Americans from the South to the Northeast, Midwest and West.
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Serbian Americans
Serbian Americans (српски Американци / srpski Amerikanci) or American Serbs (амерички Срби / američki Srbi), are Americans of ethnic Serb ancestry.
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Shedd Aquarium
Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago.
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Shimer Great Books School
Shimer Great Books School (pronounced) is a Great Books college that is part of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.
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Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors.
Sneak Previews
Sneak Previews (1975 to 1996: known as Opening Soon...at a Theater Near You from 1975 to 1977, and Sneak Previews Goes Video from 1989 to 1991) is an American film review show that ran for over two decades on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
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Social realism
Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions.
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Social work
Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being.
Socialism
Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.
Society for Human Rights
The Society for Human Rights was an American gay-rights organization established in Chicago in 1924.
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Soldier Field
Soldier Field is a multi-purpose stadium on the Near South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
South Bend, Indiana
South Bend is a city in and the county seat of St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States, on the St. Joseph River near its southernmost bend, from which it derives its name.
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South Shore Line
The South Shore Line is an electrically powered interurban commuter rail line operated by the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (NICTD) between Millennium Station in downtown Chicago, Illinois and the South Bend International Airport in South Bend, Indiana, United States.
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South Shore, Chicago
South Shore is one of 77 defined community areas of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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South Side, Chicago
The South Side is one of the three major sections of the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.
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Sports in Chicago
Sports in Chicago include many professional sports teams.
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Spring (season)
Spring, also known as springtime, is one of the four temperate seasons, succeeding winter and preceding summer.
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St. Adalbert's in Chicago
St.
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St. Louis
St. Chicago and St. Louis are Inland port cities and towns of the United States.
Stamping (metalworking)
Stamping (also known as pressing) is the process of placing flat sheet metal in either blank or coil form into a stamping press where a tool and die surface forms the metal into a net shape.
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Stanley Cup
The Stanley Cup (La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion.
State Street (Chicago)
State Street is a large south-north street, also one of the main streets, in Chicago, Illinois, USA and its south suburbs.
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Steamboat
A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels.
Steel frame
Steel frame is a building technique with a "skeleton frame" of vertical steel columns and horizontal I-beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the floors, roof and walls of a building which are all attached to the frame.
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Chicago theater company founded in 1974 by Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry, and Gary Sinise in the Immaculate Conception grade school in Highland Park, Illinois and is now located in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on Halsted Street.
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Streeterville
Streeterville is a neighborhood in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States, north of the Chicago River.
StreetWise
StreetWise is a street magazine sold by people without homes or those at-risk for homelessness in Chicago.
Stritch School of Medicine
Stritch School of Medicine is the medical school affiliated with Loyola University Chicago.
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Summer
Summer is the hottest and brightest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn.
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the annual league championship game of the National Football League (NFL) of the United States.
Supporters' Shield
The Supporters' Shield is an annual award given to the Major League Soccer team with the best regular season record, as determined by the MLS points system.
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Surrealism
Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.
Sustainable development
Sustainable development is an approach to growth and human development that aims to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
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Symphony Center
Symphony Center is a music complex located at 220 South Michigan Avenue in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois.
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Tamale
A tamale, in Spanish, is a traditional Mesoamerican dish made of masa, a dough made from nixtamalized corn, which is steamed in a corn husk or banana leaves.
Taste of Chicago
The Taste of Chicago (also known locally as The Taste) is the world's largest food festival, held in September in Chicago, Illinois in Grant Park.
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Telemundo
Telemundo (formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal, which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast. It provides content nationally with programming syndicated worldwide to more than 100 countries in over 35 languages.
The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club is an online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media.
The Blues Brothers (film)
The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis.
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The Chicago School
The Chicago School is a private university with its main campus in Chicago, Illinois.
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The CW
The CW Television Network (commonly referred to as the CW or simply CW) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is controlled by Nexstar Media Group through a 75-percent ownership interest.
The Gazette (Chicago)
Gazette Chicago (formerly the Near West Gazette and then Near West/ South Gazette) is a monthly newspaper covering the Near West/Tri-Taylor, University Village, West Loop, South Loop, West Haven, Bridgeport/Armour Square, Chinatown, Bronzeville, West Town, and Heart of Chicago communities of Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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The Jenny Jones Show
The Jenny Jones Show is an American first-run syndicated talk show that was hosted by Jenny Jones.
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The Jerry Springer Show
Jerry Springer, commonly referred to as The Jerry Springer Show, is an American first-run syndicated talk show that was hosted by Jerry Springer.
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The McLaughlin Group
The McLaughlin Group was a syndicated half-hour weekly public affairs television program in the United States, hosted by John McLaughlin from 1982 until his death in 2016.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Onion
The Onion is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news.
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show, often referred to as The Oprah Show or simply Oprah, is an American daytime syndicated talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8, 1986, to May 25, 2011, from Chicago, Illinois.
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The Phil Donahue Show
The Phil Donahue Show, also known as Donahue, is an American television talk show that was hosted by Phil Donahue.
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The Second City
The Second City is an improvisational comedy enterprise.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Theater in Chicago
Theater in Chicago describes not only theater performed in Chicago, Illinois, but also to the movement in Chicago that saw a number of small, meagerly funded companies grow to institutions of national and international significance.
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This American Life
This American Life (TAL) is an American weekly hour-long radio program produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media and hosted by Ira Glass.
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Thunderstorm
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.
Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Time in Indiana
The U.S. state of Indiana is divided into Eastern and Central time zones.
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Time zone
A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes.
Times Higher Education
Times Higher Education (THE), formerly The Times Higher Education Supplement (The Thes), is a British magazine reporting specifically on news and issues related to higher education.
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Tomato
The tomato is the edible berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as the tomato plant.
Tony Accardo
Anthony Joseph Accardo (born Antonino Leonardo Accardo,; April 28, 1906 – May 22, 1992), also known as "Joe Batters" and "Big Tuna", was an American longtime mobster.
Tourism in Chicago
Tourism in Chicago draws on the city's status as a "world-class destination known for its impressive architecture, first-rate museums, brilliant chefs" and wide variety of neighborhood attractions.
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Town square
A square (or plaza, public square, or urban square) is an open public space used for various activities.
Trade union
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.
Treaty of Greenville
The Treaty of Greenville, also known to Americans as the Treaty with the Wyandots, etc., but formally titled A treaty of peace between the United States of America, and the tribes of Indians called the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanees, Ottawas, Chippewas, Pattawatimas, Miamis, Eel Rivers, Weas, Kickapoos, Piankeshaws, and Kaskaskias was a 1795 treaty between the United States and indigenous nations of the Northwest Territory (now Midwestern United States), including the Wyandot and Delaware peoples, that redefined the boundary between indigenous peoples' lands and territory for European American community settlement.
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Tribune Broadcasting
Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC was an American media company which operated as a subsidiary of Tribune Media, a media conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois.
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Truman College
Harry S Truman College or Truman College, formerly called Mayfair College, is a part of City Colleges of Chicago.
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Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)
The Trump International Hotel and Tower is a skyscraper condo-hotel in downtown Chicago, Illinois.
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Trust for Public Land
The Trust for Public Land is a U.S. nonprofit organization with a mission to "create parks and protect land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come".
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Turkish Americans
Turkish Americans (Türk Amerikalılar) or American Turks are Americans of ethnic Turkish origin.
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U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report (USNWR, US NEWS) is an American media company publishing news, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.
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U.S. Open Cup
The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, commonly known as the U.S. Open Cup (USOC), is a knockout cup competition in men's soccer in the United States of America.
UIC Flames
The UIC Flames are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Illinois Chicago, located in Chicago, Illinois, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), primarily competing in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) since the 2022–23 academic year.
Ulta Beauty
Ulta Beauty, Inc., formerly known as Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance Inc. and before 2000 as Ulta3, is an American chain of cosmetic stores headquartered in Bolingbrook, Illinois.
UniMás
UniMás (stylized as UNIMÁS, and originally known as TeleFutura from its launch on January 14, 2002, to January 6, 2013) is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision.
Union Stock Yards
The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865.
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United Airlines
United Airlines, Inc. is a major American airline headquartered at the Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois.
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United Center
The United Center is an indoor arena on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is home to the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). It is named after its corporate sponsor United Airlines, which has been based in Chicago since 2007 and has a hub at O'Hare International Airport.
United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Army Corps of Engineers
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army.
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United States Attorney
United States attorneys are officials of the U.S. Department of Justice who serve as the chief federal law enforcement officers in each of the 94 U.S. federal judicial districts.
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United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
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United States cities with teams from four major league sports
There are 12 United States cities (along with their corresponding metropolitan areas) with sports teams competing in each of the four major leagues of the United States and Canada: Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, National Football League, and the National Hockey League.
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United States Department of Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and production, works to assure food safety, protects natural resources, fosters rural communities and works to end hunger in the United States and internationally.
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United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (in case citations, N.D. Ill.) is the federal trial court with jurisdiction over the northern counties of Illinois.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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University of Chicago Divinity School
The University of Chicago Divinity School is a private graduate institution at the University of Chicago dedicated to the training of academics and clergy across religious boundaries.
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University of Chicago Medical Center
The University of Chicago Medical Center (UChicago Medicine) is a nationally ranked academic medical center located in Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago.
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University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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University of Illinois Chicago
The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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University of Illinois College of Medicine
The University of Illinois College of Medicine offers a four-year program leading to the MD degree at four different sites in Illinois: Chicago, Peoria, Rockford, and formerly Urbana–Champaign.
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States.
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Uno Pizzeria & Grill
Uno Pizzeria & Grill (formerly Pizzeria Uno and Uno Chicago Grill), or more informally as Uno’s, is a United States-origin franchised pizzeria restaurant chain under the parent company Uno Restaurant Holdings Corporation.
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Uptown, Chicago
Uptown is one of Chicago's 77 community areas.
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Urban heat island
Urban areas usually experience the urban heat island (UHI) effect, that is, they are significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas.
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Urban park
An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a city park, municipal park (North America), public park, public open space, or municipal gardens (UK), is a park or botanical garden in cities, densely populated suburbia and other incorporated places that offers green space and places for recreation to residents and visitors.
USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
USS Chicago
Four United States Navy ships have been named USS Chicago, after the city of Chicago, Illinois.
Victory Gardens Theater
Victory Gardens Theater is a theater company in Chicago, Illinois dedicated to the development and production of new plays and playwrights.
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Violent crime
A violent crime, violent felony, crime of violence or crime of a violent nature is a crime in which an offender or perpetrator uses or threatens to use harmful force upon a victim.
W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Wait Wait...
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Walgreens
Walgreens is an American company that operates the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the United States, behind CVS Health.
Walter Payton College Preparatory High School
Walter Payton College Preparatory High School (WPCP) is a public 4–year magnet high school located in the Old Town neighborhood on the near–north side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America.
Ward (United States)
In the United States, a ward is an optional division of a city or town for administrative and representative purposes, especially for purposes of an election.
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Washington Park (Chicago park)
Washington Park (formerly Western Division of South Park, also Park No. 21) is a park between Cottage Grove Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive, (originally known as "Grand Boulevard") located at 5531 S. Martin Luther King Dr.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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Water cribs in Chicago
The water cribs in Chicago are structures built to house and protect offshore water intakes used to supply the City of Chicago with drinking water from Lake Michigan.
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WBBM (AM)
WBBM (780 kHz) – branded Newsradio 780 WBBM – is a commercial all-news AM radio station licensed to serve Chicago, Illinois.
WBBM-TV
WBBM-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the market's CBS network outlet.
WBEZ
WBEZ (91.5 FM) – branded WBEZ 91.5 – is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to Chicago, Illinois, and primarily serving the Chicago metropolitan area.
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WCIU-TV
WCIU-TV (channel 26) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, affiliated with The CW.
WCPX-TV
WCPX-TV (channel 38) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network.
Weigel Broadcasting
Weigel Broadcasting Co. is an American television broadcasting company based in Chicago, Illinois, alongside its flagship station WCIU-TV (Channel 26), at 26 North Halsted Street in the Greektown neighborhood.
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West Ridge, Chicago
West Ridge is one of 77 Chicago community areas.
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West Town, Chicago
West Town, northwest of the Loop on Chicago's West Side, is one of the city's officially designated community areas.
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Western Avenue (Chicago)
Western Avenue is a street within the city of Chicago.
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Western Hemisphere
The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian—which crosses Greenwich, London, England—and east of the 180th meridian.
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Wetland
A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.
WFLD
WFLD (channel 32) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the market's Fox network outlet.
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WGBO-DT
WGBO-DT (channel 66) is a television station licensed to Joliet, Illinois, United States, serving as the Chicago-area outlet for the Spanish-language network Univision.
WGN (AM)
WGN (720 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, featuring a talk radio format.
WGN-TV
WGN-TV (channel 9) is an independent television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Wheel tax
A wheel tax is a vehicle registration fee commonly used on automobiles generally less than 8000 pounds in the United States by some cities and counties.
White Americans
White Americans (also referred to as European Americans) are Americans who identify as white people.
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White flight
White flight or white exodus is the sudden or gradual large-scale migration of white people from areas becoming more racially or ethnoculturally diverse.
White House Chief of Staff
The White House chief of staff is the head of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, a cabinet position in the federal government of the United States.
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Wigwam (Chicago)
The Wigwam was a convention center and meeting hall that served as the site of the 1860 Republican National Convention.
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Wilbur Wright College
Wilbur Wright College, formerly known as Wright Junior College, is a public community college in Chicago.
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William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician of Latin American descent closely associated with modernism and imagism.
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William Hale Thompson
William Hale Thompson (May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931.
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William Rainey Harper
William Rainey Harper (July 24, 1856 – January 10, 1906) was an American academic leader, an accomplished semiticist, and Baptist clergyman.
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Willis Tower
The Willis Tower, originally and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110-story, skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States.
Windy City (nickname)
The city of Chicago has been known by many nicknames, but it is most widely recognized as the "Windy City".
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Windy City Times
Windy City Times is an LGBT newspaper in Chicago that published its first issue on September 26, 1985.
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Winter
Winter is the coldest and darkest season of the year in polar and temperate climates.
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States.
WJYS
WJYS (channel 62) is an independent television station licensed to Hammond, Indiana, United States, serving the Chicago area.
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WLS (AM)
WLS (890 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois.
WLS-TV
WLS-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the market's ABC network outlet.
WMAQ-TV
WMAQ-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the market's NBC outlet.
WMVP
WMVP (1000 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Chicago, Illinois, carrying a sports radio format.
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WNBA Finals
The WNBA Finals are the championship series of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the conclusion of the league's postseason each fall.
Women's National Basketball Association
The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a women's professional basketball league based in the United States.
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World Marathon Majors
The World Marathon Majors (WMM) (known for sponsorship reasons as the Abbott World Marathon Majors) is a championship-style competition for marathon runners that started in 2006.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
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World's fair
A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition or an expo, is a large global exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations.
WPWR-TV
WPWR-TV (channel 50) is a television station licensed to Gary, Indiana, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Chicago area.
Wrigley Field
Wrigley Field is a ballpark on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.
WSCR
WSCR (670 AM) – branded 670 The Score – is a commercial sports radio station licensed to serve Chicago, Illinois, and the Chicago metropolitan area.
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WTTW
WTTW (channel 11) is a PBS member television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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WTVK (TV)
WTVK (channel 59) is a television station licensed to Oswego, Illinois, United States, serving the Chicago television market and primarily airing paid programming from Corner Store TV.
WWTO-TV
WWTO-TV (channel 35) is a religious television station licensed to Naperville, Illinois, United States, serving as the Chicago area outlet for the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN).
WXFT-DT
WXFT-DT (channel 60) is a television station licensed to Aurora, Illinois, United States, serving as the Chicago-area outlet for the Spanish-language network UniMás.
WYCC
WYCC (channel 20) was a public television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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WYIN
WYIN (channel 56), branded on-air as Lakeshore PBS, is a secondary PBS member television station licensed to Gary, Indiana, United States, serving the Chicago area.
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Yellow fever
Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration.
Yellow Line (CTA)
The Yellow Line, alternatively known as the Skokie Swift, is a branch of the Chicago "L" train system in Chicago, Illinois.
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ZIP Code
A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS).
1860 Republican National Convention
The 1860 Republican National Convention was a presidential nominating convention that met May 16–18 in Chicago, Illinois.
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1937 Memorial Day massacre
In the Memorial Day massacre of 1937, the Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago, on May 30, 1937.
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1968 Democratic National Convention
The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held August 26–29 at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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1994 FIFA World Cup
The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national soccer teams.
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1995 Chicago heat wave
The July 1995 Chicago heat wave led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days.
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860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments
860–880 Lake Shore Drive is a twin pair of glass-and-steel apartment towers on N. Lake Shore Drive along Lake Michigan in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
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95th Street (Chicago)
95th Street is a major east–west highway on Chicago's South Side, and in the southwest suburbs, is designated as 9500 South in Chicago's address system.
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See also
1833 establishments in Illinois
- Alton Military Prison
- Batavia, Illinois
- Bloomingdale, Illinois
- Champaign County, Illinois
- Chicago
- Dover, Illinois
- First Presbyterian Church (Chicago)
- First United Methodist Church (Peoria, Illinois)
- Germantown, Illinois
- Griggsville, Illinois
- Illinois's 1st congressional district
- Illinois's 2nd congressional district
- Illinois's 3rd congressional district
- Iroquois County, Illinois
- Kappa, Illinois
- Lima, Illinois
- Mendon, Illinois
- Oakland, Illinois
- Oregon, Illinois
- Oswego, Illinois
- Petersburg, Illinois
- Tremont House (Chicago)
- Urbana, Illinois
- Warrenville, Illinois
Cities in the Chicago metropolitan area
- Chicago
- DeKalb, Illinois
Illinois populated places on Lake Michigan
- Chicago
- Evanston, Illinois
- Highland Park, Illinois
- Highwood, Illinois
- Lake Forest, Illinois
- North Chicago, Illinois
- Waukegan, Illinois
Inland port cities and towns of the United States
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Buffalo, New York
- Chicago
- Decatur, Alabama
- Detroit
- Duluth, Minnesota
- Helena–West Helena, Arkansas
- Lewiston, Idaho
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Napoleon, Arkansas
- Oswego, New York
- Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
- St. Louis
- Stockton, California
- Tulsa, Oklahoma
Populated places established in the 1780s
Railway towns in Illinois
- Chicago
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