Chicago

American  

[shi-kah-goh, -kaw-] / ʃɪˈkɑ goʊ, -ˈkɔ- /

noun

1. Judy Judy Cohen, born 1939, U.S. artist, author, and educator.

2. a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan: second largest city in the U.S.

3. a river formed in Chicago that flows through downtown and, as engineered, to the Des Plaines River: part of the Illinois Waterway.

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Chicago British  

/ ʃɪˈkɑːɡəʊ /

noun

1. 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)

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Chicago Cultural  

1. 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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James Watson was born in Chicago in April 1928 to Jean and James, descendants of English, Scottish and Irish settlers.

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In hubs like Chicago, handoffs often require loading freight onto trucks that move between rail terminals.

From The Wall Street Journal

A new working paper by economists at Harvard and the University of Chicago found that the real average tariff rate was 14.1% as of late September, well below the headline number of 27.4%.

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Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol commander who has led militarized immigration operations in Los Angeles and Chicago, is headed to Minneapolis with Border Patrol agents, the people said.

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Once United arrived at their training base in Chicago in July, access was limited.

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