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Chicago

[ shi-kah-goh, -kaw- ]

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noun

Judy Judy Cohen, born 1939, U.S. artist, author, and educator.
a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan: second largest city in the U.S.
a river formed in Chicago that flows through downtown and, as engineered, to the Des Plaines River: part of the Illinois Waterway.

Chicago

/ ʃɪˈ��ɑːɡəʊ /

noun

a port in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan: the third largest city in the US; it is a major railway and air traffic centre. Pop: 2 869 121 (2003 est)

Chicago

Largest city in Illinois ; located on Lake Michigan .

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Carl Sandburg , in his poem “Chicago,” called the city the “Hog Butcher for the World” because of Chicago's heavy involvement in the meatpacking industry.

During the time of Prohibition , Chicago was controlled by gangsters, Al Capone being the most notorious. Gangster warfare continued long after this particularly violent period.

Originally called the “Windy City” because the city bragged about the 1893 World Expo that was held there. The term has since come to refer to the strong northern winds that blow off the lake in the winter.

Chicago's downtown is referred to as the “Loop” because it is enclosed by elevated railways, called the “El.”

For many years the second largest city in the United States, before being displaced by Los Angeles , and therefore referred to as the “Second City.”

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At the time she was a violinist in the Chicago Youth Symphony, touring the world with the orchestra.

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When I landed, I took an Uber to downtown Indianapolis, got lunch, saw “Sinners” and then literally got a Lyft back to the airport and was back in Chicago at 4 p.m.

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As a sophomore at Loyola Chicago, he’d fallen into a depression so deep that he considered suicide.

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Her first stage drama would premiere in 1990 at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, with various productions taking place across the country thereafter, including in San Diego, San Antonio, Chicago and Los Angeles.

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Under the Trump administration, ICE has already conducted well-publicized operations in Chicago and New York.

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