Chicago
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Judy Judy Cohen, born 1939, U.S. artist, author, and educator.
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a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan: second largest city in the U.S.
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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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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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Perpetuals are a new financial product for the U.S., but they didn’t debut on longstanding financial exchanges like the Chicago Mercantile Exchange —they are tradable only on Kalshi, the prediction market platform.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
The owners could try to find one of their own revenue sources to compensate the Dodgers and other behemoths, including the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
The latest Phase 3 data were released Sunday at a premier cancer conference in Chicago and published in The Lancet.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026
The trial, led by American scientists and presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago, involved 248 patients who were given daraxonrasib and 252 who were given chemotherapy.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
I started leaving my copy of the Chicago Press & Tribune on the table each day for Aunt Kitty to read, something she was always saying she had no time for.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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