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  Chicago Encyclopedia Article @ USHQ.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Chicago in its first century was one of the fastest growing cities in the world, having started with a population of zero at the beginning of the 1800's swelling to over 1 million people by 1900.
The Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association is one of the world's most recognized basketball teams, thanks to their enormous success during the Michael Jordan era, when they won six NBA titles in the 1990s.
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).
www.ushq.org /encyclopedia/Chicago   (7490 words)

  
 ooBdoo
Chicago is also home to other nationally recognized medical schools including Rush Medical College, the Pritzker School of Medicine of the University of Chicago, and the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University.
In addition, the Chicago Medical School and Loyola University Chicago's Stritch School of Medicine are located in the suburbs of North Chicago and Maywood, respectively.
Chicago is served by Midway Airport on the south side and O'Hare International Airport, one of the world's busiest airports, on the far northwest.
www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Chicago   (8375 words)

  
 Top20Chicago.com - Your Top20Guide to Chicago, IL.
On August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was incorporated with a population of 350.
Chicago's politics lean famously to the left compared to the rest of the midwest, and it is often said that Chicago is the "East Coast" of the Midwest.
The Lyric Opera of Chicago was founded in 1954 and performs in the Civic Opera Building, which was built in 1929 on the east bank of the Chicago River and is the second-largest opera auditorium in North America, with 3,563 seats.
top20chicago.com   (5700 words)

  
 VZ Local - Chicago, Illinois City Guide
Chicago has been among the first US cities to build an integrated emergency response center to coordinate the city's response to terrorist attacks, gang violence, and natural disasters in the city.
Chicago is one of the few cities in the United States with two professional baseball teams (Cubs, White Sox), professional football (Bears), soccer (Fire), basketball (Bulls, WNBA Sky), and professional hockey (Blackhawks).
Chicago then became one of the largest grain and lumber ports in the world, with grain being sent to more established populations and lumber being sent to the forest-starved prairies where new settlers needed to build.
www.vzlocal.com /Chicago-IL.html   (7121 words)

  
 Chicago, Illinois - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Chicago was the site of the world's first skyscraper, and today is the architectural, financial, and cultural capital of the Midwest and transportation center of the country, with more rail lines and interstates radiating from the city than any other city in the country.
Chicago is the largest city and the county seat of Cook County.
The Chicago campus of the University of Illinois system, the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the city's largest university and one of the nation's largest urban public universities.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Chicago,_IL   (7580 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Chicago   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Chicago also has several dozen distinct neighborhoods to match the ethnic diversity; the city is divided into 77 official community areas.
Chicago, and its surrounding metropoltian area, are also home to the second largest labor pool in the United States numbering approximately 4.25 million workers.
In the 20th century, Chicago held on to its status as the nation's transportation hub with the building of two airports: Midway Airport, on the south side, which was superceded in the 1960s by O'Hare International Airport on the far northwest.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/chicago   (6611 words)

  
 Jazz Age Chicago--Extended List of Chicago History Links
Notable University of Chicago Faculty [University of Chicago Library]
History of the Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus, The Jesuits
Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963 [University of Illinois at Chicago]
chicago.urban-history.org /res/res03.shtml   (2422 words)

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