Chicago

Chicago (i/ʃˈkɑːɡ/ or /ʃˈkɔːɡ/) is the third most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois and the Midwest. The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, has nearly 10 million people and is the third-largest in the U.S. Chicago is the seat of Cook County.

Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century. The city is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation: O'Hare International Airport is the busiest airport in the world when measured by aircraft traffic; it also has the largest number of U.S. highways and rail road freight. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranked seventh in the world in the 2014 Global Cities Index.As of 2014, Chicago had the third largest gross metropolitan product in the United States at US$610.5 billion.

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Legislator calls Pritzker a 'population denier' after data show Chicago loses more

Longview News-Journal 17 May 2024
(The Center Square) – Annual Census estimates released Thursday show Illinois’ largest cities continuing to lose population. Gov. J.B. Pritzker again denied it .......
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Chicago Fire FC Provides Notice Of Data Breach

MENA FN 17 May 2024
(MENAFN - ACCESSWIRE) CHICAGO, IL / ACCESSWIRE / May 16, 2024 / Chicago Fire FC today provided notice of a breach that impacted the Club's IT systems. In October 2023, the Fire's early detection ... ....
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Chicago police officer dies in apparent suicide: authorities

Chicago Tribune 17 May 2024
A Chicago police officer died Thursday afternoon in an apparent suicide on the city’s Near ......
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Chicago: Police clear pro-Palestinian Arab encampment at DePaul University

Israel National News 17 May 2024
Police dismantle pro-Palestinian Arab encampment at DePaul University in Chicago, say all the protesters “voluntarily left” the area .......
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Chicago Fire's Taylor Kinney weds Ashley Cruger after 2 years of dating

Digital Spy 17 May 2024
Chicago Fire star Taylor Kinney has married Ashley ... I couldn't be happier to have been in this story space, getting to work with real firefighters and paramedics this long.”Chicago Fire, Chicago PD and Chicago Med air on NBC and Peacock in the US, and on Sky Witness in the UK....
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Off-duty Chicago police officer dies by apparent suicide in West Loop home

Chicago Sun-Times 17 May 2024
<img class="Image" alt="The side of a Chicago police squad car." ... An off-duty Chicago police officer is believed to have killed himself Thursday inside a West Loop home ... inside a home in the 1600 block of West Warren Boulevard with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Chicago police said....
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Biden speeds up asylum process for migrants headed to NYC, LA, Chicago

New York Post 17 May 2024
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday that a new Recent Arrivals (RA) Docket will swiftly place single adults before immigration judges in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City....
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Chicago Tribune journalists file discrimination suit against paper

Chicago Sun-Times 17 May 2024
Chicago Tribune employees have filed suit against the paper’s current and former owners alleging systematic wage discrimination ... Seven Chicago Tribune journalists filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday against the newspaper and its owner, alleging violations of equal pay based on sexual and racial discrimination ... ‘This is Chicago, we don’t back down’....
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What we heard at the NBA combine, including Bronny James on his future and Terrence ...

Colorado Springs Gazette 17 May 2024
CHICAGO — All eyes were on Bronny James this week in Chicago as the son of Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James showed out at the NBA combine at Wintrust Arena .......
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US reaches a new clean energy milestone, with 5 million solar projects installed

The Pantagraph 17 May 2024
When Peter Gorr got his first solar roof in 2011, he didn’t know what to expect. But installation went well, the smooth black panels lowered his electric bills, and Gorr — who is very concerned about climate change — relished ... ....
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