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	Eastland Memorial Society - Chicago River History
		Chicago was chartered in 1833 with a population of only 350 residents, but by the next year the population had grown to over 2,000 and the river soon became polluted.
		To reverse the flow of the Chicago River, a 28-mile canal was built from the south branch of the river through the low summit and down to Lockport.
		Chicago's South Plant, with a capacity of 720 million gallons per/day, was the largest of its kind in the world until it was surpassed in 1968 by the James W. Jardine Water Purification Plant with a capacity of 1,440 million gallons per/day.
	www.inficad.com /~ksup/chiriver.html (1181 words)

	Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chicago is located along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan and is a center of transportation, industry, politics, culture, finance, medicine and higher education.
		Chicago is a major financial center with the second largest central business district in the U.S. The city is the headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (the Seventh District of the Federal Reserve).
		Chicago is the county seat of Cook County.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chicago (8388 words)

	introvert.net » flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The July issue of the Flagwaver appeared on the internets recently, containing an editorial response to my complaints about their depiction of the Chicago Flag in their December 2000 issue.
		However, I’ve yet to see a picture of a flag from the 1928-1933 era, between the time the change was made and the third star was added.
		The Chicago municipal flag shall be white, with two blue bars, each taking up a sixth of its space, and set a little less than one-sixth of the way from the top and bottom of the flag, respectively.
	introvert.net /blog/category/flag (908 words)

	Eastland Memorial Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		KEYWORD(S) The Chicago flag is flown and proudly displayed daily with civic pride as a visual reminder of the historical events and philosophies that shaped and forged the foundation of this magnificent city.
		The municipal flag of Chicago is never to be displayed in a superior position to the United States flag.
		The municipal flag shall be white, with two blue bars, each taking up a sixth of its space, and set a little less than one-sixth of the way from the top and bottom of the flag, respectively.
	www.eastlanddisaster.com /chicago.shtml (529 words)

	facts
		Town of Chicago was incorporated August 12, 1833 with a population of 350 people.
		The City of Chicago was incorporated March 4, 1837, with a population of 4,170.
		The Municipal Flag of Chicago consists of 3 white stripes separated by two stripes of blue with four red six-pointed stars.
	cuip.uchicago.edu /~kpalmer/chicago/facts.htm (201 words)

	News - 10/22/2004
		CHICAGO - the Chicago Fire and PUMA® announced on Friday a new playing kit set to debut during the 2005 season.
		While retaining the signature Fire badge branding, the new jersey, like the flag, features white stripes across the chest and side panels that signify the north, south and west sides of the city.
		The City of Chicago flag is one of the most distinctive and well known flags in the country and now it will receive national exposure through the new Chicago Fire third strip."
	www.ssur.org /news/items/2004/200410/20041022_ChicagoFire.htm (561 words)

	Gapers Block : Airbags : We Totally Have the Best Flag
		The Municipal Flag of Chicago was adopted by the city in 1917, based on a design by Wallace Rice, a poet and reporter for the Chicago Herald.
		The Municipal Flag of Chicago is brilliant because it combines simplicity of design with a rich complex of meaning.
		In contrast, both the New York City flag and the Los Angeles flag (PDF) consist of three vertical stripes with the City Seal in the center.
	www.gapersblock.com /airbags/archives/we_totally_have_the_best_flag (1157 words)

	Section 8 Chicago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At 60+ meters long and one meter high, it will incorporate a number of symbols of both the Chicago Fire Soccer Club and Section 8 into a segmented six-panel composition that will drape the entire north wall of the field while still allowing field access through the aisle gates at the bottom.
		Chicago municipal flag light blue and white piping run around the whole circumference with large white letters (trimmed in light blue) saying "CHICAGO FIRE SOCCER CLUB" and on the stripe red letters saying "EST.
		This flag will only be used during player introductions before kickoff - for big matches and special occasions as an extra boost to the team against rivals and in playoff/cup matches.
	www.section8chicago.com /news/press_detail.asp?prID=73 (520 words)

	Kosco Flags and Flagpoles - Your source for USA Flags, State Flags, Sports Flags, and many Country Flags.
		Our flag cases are proudly made in the USA out of solid hard woods to display a 5' x 9-1/2' flag.
		At Kosco Flags we also carry NFL flags, and other sports flags, as well as religious flags, military flags, message flags, flag display cases, flag brackets, flag poles and never furl kits.
		So if you are looking for United States flags, state flags, nations of the world flags, religious flags, sports flags, military flags, or many other types of flags, flagpoles, flag cases you have come to the right place.
	www.koscoflags.com (272 words)

	Roosevelt University - History of Chicago - Resources on the Internet
		Chicago area telephone numbers most frequently asked for by patrons of the CPL Harold Washington Library Center's Information Center.
		Chicago Community Area Demographics from University of Illinois - Chicago Experimental demographic information from the 1990 U.S. Census Bureau Summary Tape File Three (STF3) with the data summarized from census tract to the Chicago Community Area.
		Chicago Historical Society and its The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory.
	www.roosevelt.edu /chicagohistory/resources.htm (272 words)

	sixosix magazine chicago • 606mag.com • chicago magazine • hopscotch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The flag should never be displayed in any position that indicates superiority over the flag of the United States.
		Despite the punk scene of Chicago telling us otherwise, code 1-8-90 of the city's municipal code states “ It shall be unlawful for any person to use the municipal flag, standard, pennant, or badge, or any imitation or design thereof, except for the usual and customary purposes of decoration or display.
		The design of Chicago's flag consists of three white stripes interrupted by two blue stripes with four six-pointed red stars on the center white stripe.
	www.606mag.com /main.php?id=189 (451 words)

	Chicago Historical Society - My Chicago
		Use this interactive flag to learn what the symbols on the Chicago flag represent.
		Match photographs of objects that were found after the fire and try to guess what the objects were before they were melted.
		Take a trip down the Chicago River and use your knowledge about the city to raise the bridges on your journey.
	www.chicagohistory.org /mychicago/03games.html (125 words)

	CFA Editorial: Major General Brady's Speech to Chicago Flag Rally
		They would be outraged by a Supreme Court which took away our freedom to protect their Flag, and they did it in the same year that their sacrifices brought down the Berlin wall and won freedom for so many.
		If you believe that burning the American Flag is an act of cowardice, that only a coward, hiding behind false speech, would spew his venom on something that cannot speak back.
		If you agree with them, fly your Flag, but not only for them, for all the great jurist who for 200 years defended the right of the people to protect their Flag..
	www.cfa-inc.org /editorials/edit14.htm (1840 words)

	NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago
		In Chicago, it's the city's concentration of ethnic drinkers that still supports a small, but rapidly disappearing industry distilling, blending and distributing liquors.
		Mallort labels boast a small picture of the Chicago flag, and a booklet that tells the Jeppsen Mallort story is attached to each bottle.
		Located in a virtual no-man's land on West 35th, surrounded by factories, the Stevenson Expressway and the Chicago Sanitary Canal, the two-by-three-block Union Beverage Warehouse still stands as a forbidding structure, surrounded by barbed-wire fences and flened windows.
	www.newcitychicago.com /chicago/food-2000-10-05-703.html (664 words)

	Municipal Flag of Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The municipal flag of Chicago consists of two blue horizontal stripes on a field of white, each stripe one-sixth the height of the full flag, and placed slightly less than one-sixth of the way from the top or bottom, respectively.
		In a review by the North American Vexillological Association of 150 American city flags, the Chicago city flag came in 2nd with a rating of 9.03 out of 10.
		The second star stands for the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and is original to the 1917 design of the flag.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Municipal_Flag_of_Chicago (537 words)

	Amazon.com: Rally 'round the Flag: Chicago And the Civil War: Books: Theodore J. Karamanski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Rally 'Round The Flag: Chicago And The Civil War" by Theodore Karamanski (Professor of History, Loyola University of Chicago) is an impressive, informative, and scholarly history of Chicago history during the years of the American Civil War.
		Because Chicago was far from battle lines, war fields and killing grounds, yet accessible to them through railroad and waterway systems of transport, its war-time economy boomed, attracting a huge increase in population that strained Chicago's pre-war social fabric.
		From the Republic convention of 1860 to the dismal conditions of the Confederate POWs in Camp Douglas on the South Side of Chicago, readers are provided with a vividly accurate historical account of Chicago's conditions during the bloody conflict that threatened to tear apart the American nation.
	www.amazon.com /Rally-round-Flag-Chicago-Civil/dp/0742551377 (978 words)

	Around the Town
		The image on this Flag is familiar to many Americans as one that circulated after the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the United States.
		The Chicago City Flag that we offer here is made of 100% heavyweight nylon that is lustrous, with superior wear plus excellent flyability even in the slightest breeze.
		A replica image of the U.S. Constitution on parchment paper overlays a visual of an American Flag floating on the wind combining two of the symbols synonymous with the 4th of July with style and grace.
	www.usflagdepot.com /store/page2.html (877 words)

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		"Darts, Flag Football and Billiards are all popular in the U.S. and all three have shown recent significant growth in participation by U.S. LGBT sports leagues," said Ted Cappas, another of Chicago’s Sports Chairs.
		Hal Shipman, Coach of Chicago’s new gay rugby team, the Chicago Dragons, and team representative to the Chicago Area Rugby Football Union, a member of USA Rugby, said, "Nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation has been part of USA Rugby’s policies for 15 years.
		Chicago Games, Inc. is the host of Gay Games VII and is led by experienced civic leaders from Chicago’s business, sports and non-profit sectors.
	www.chicago2006.org /media/article.php?aid=9 (659 words)

	‘New American Pride’ Flag Lights Up Chicago Navy Pier
		The lighting ceremony for the neon/cathode flag was hosted by IBEW Local 134, whose members worked on the project, and the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) of Chicago.
		The flag was a brilliant backdrop for the Olympics Ring Lighting Ceremony, which was televised around the globe.
		The flag has since been scheduled for display at other prominent venues around the country, including the Pentagon and in New York City.
	www.ibew.org /articles/02journal/0210/p5.flag.htm (451 words)

	Chicago Bears Flag your Chicago Bears Flag, banner, and pennant source
		Our Chicago Bears Flag is constructed of polyester, measures 3x5 feet, and has two plastic D-rings for attaching to our 6' aluminum flagpole or tailgate pole.
		Due to its large size, this flag is also perfect to hang on any wall in your game room, sports room, or office.
		The Chicago Bears Flag is viewable from both sides with the opposite side being a reverse image.
	www.proflagsandbanners.com /chicago_bears_flag_7874_prd1.html (200 words)

	Chicago Historical Society - My Chicago
		Flags tell stories in a kind of code.
		The colors and designs on flags represent important people, places, and events.
		Like the United States flag, Chicago's flag has symbols on it.
	www.chicagohs.org /mychicago/03flag.html (79 words)

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		The four red stars on the logo are drawn from the City of Chicago flag.
		Each star represents a major event in Chicago’s history - the building of Fort Dearborn at the mouth of the Chicago River in 1803, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, and the Century of Progress, a star added in 1933.
		The points on the 3rd star, for example, represent the international history of Chicago and Illinois, first as a territory of France, then Great Britain before becoming part of the United States in 1778 and, finally, Illinois’ statehood in 1818.
	www.chicago2006.org /yourhost/logo.php (557 words)

	Nano-students raise microscopic U.S. flag Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		That's what graduate students at the University of Texas at Dallas had in mind when they created the likeness of an American flag so small it would take more than 10 to span the width of a human hair.
		The image of the flag -- complete with all 50 stars and 13 stripes -- is 7 microns tall, compared to the 100-micron width of a human hair.
		The flag and its pole were cut using an ion beam -- a microscopic version of a laser - - and lifted to a standing position by a nano manipulator.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20060705/ai_n16510915 (328 words)

	City Flag of West Chicago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The history of the American flag, the meaning of the colors, the explanation of the stripes, and the representation of the stars are a familiar story to all.
		Early in 1966, the West Chicago Railroad and Historical Society conducted a contest for the selection of suitable colors for the City, and, as a result, the West Chicago City Council in April, 1966 adopted red, white, blue, and green as the official City colors.
		The while is associated with the national and Chicago flags, as well as with one of the high school colors.
	wegoweb.net /history/cityflag.html (510 words)

	IndiaPost. FIA hoists flag in Chicago Downtown
		CHICAGO: The celebration of India's 59th Independence Day coincided with the Silver Jubilee celebration of the Federation of Indian Associations (FIA) and the FIA Board headed by Harish Bhatt stole a march over the City Hall in launching the India Day celebrations.
		FIA hosted a flag hoisting ceremony at Daley Plaza in Chicago Downtown on August 15 that was followed with a grand entertainment program to the delight of many an India American and American who had gathered to witness the event- diverse Indian culture with basic unity.
		FIA hosted a banquet on August 19 and a grand parade the next day on Devon Avenue in Chicago.
	www.indiapost.com /members/story.php?story_id=5040 (437 words)

	Newberry Library \| Chicago Genealogy
		Guide to Chicago Churches and Synagogues is available at the 2nd floor reference desk and on-line.
		See also, the on-line guide to Chicago streets on the Web site of the POINTers in Person Italian genealogy group.
		This database from the Northwestern School of Law is based on the Chicago Police Department Homicide Record Index, but provides more information and greater search capability.
	www.newberry.org /genealogy/chicago.html (925 words)

	Chicago, Illinois (U.S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The flag of Chicago has broader blue stripes and four six-pointed stars all in red.
		This photo of the Chicago Fire Department flag is unfortunately slightly cropped.
		This flag is being used by the City of Chicago, Bureau of Tourism, to welcome visitors to Chicago, especially for the year 2000 celebration.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/us-il-ch.html (236 words)

	chicago bears flag
		3'x5' officially licensed flag is Anco-dyed in brilliant, authentic colors on silk polyester and finished with white canvas headings and strong brass grommets...
		3'x5' officially licensed flag is Anco-dyed in brilliant, authentic colors on triple knit polyester and finished with white canvas headings and strong brass grommets...
		Flag size is 14.5 x 11.5 and made of durable, washable satin polyester Easily attaches to any car window...
	winnerschicagobearsstore.9f.com /flag.htm (160 words)

	Section 8 Chicago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		First, the 2006 Third ('Flag') kit design done in the colors and style of the Chicago municipal flag.
		Take a look at the new shirt design for next season, make up you own mind, and tell the suits in New York and at adidas what you think of their intimate perspective on Chicago identity and culture, since they seem to know it so well: emails for key officials are at the bottom.
		If you want the flag shirt to continue to be part of the CF97 arsenal, say so, but keep to subject and don't harass - it won't be productive in getting attention.
	section8chicago.com /news/press_detail.asp?prID=65 (189 words)

	Dave Dribin's blog: Municipal Flag of Chicago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The municipal flag of Chicago is rife with symbolism.
		And some may know that the four stars represent Fort Dearborn, the Chicago Fire, the and the World's Expositions of 1893 and 1933.
		And for those that didn't know, the Chicago Flag was ranked the second best American city flag.
	www.dribin.org /dave/blog/archives/2004/10/18/chicago_flag (126 words)

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