A report on Chicago

Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History

An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871

Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893

Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931)

Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention

Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront

The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window.

Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of the Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition

Downtown Chicago and the Chicago River during January 2014 cold wave

Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people:

The National Hellenic Museum in Greektown is one of several ethnic museums comprising the Chicago Cultural Alliance.

The spire of the Copernicus Center is modeled on the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan.

The Magnificent Mile hosts numerous upscale stores, as well as landmarks like the Chicago Water Tower.

Carl Sandburg's most famous description of the city is as "Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/ Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,/ Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders."

Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side

Daley Plaza with Picasso statue, City Hall in background. At right, the Daley Plaza Building contains the state law courts.

When it was opened in 1991, the central Harold Washington Library appeared in Guinness World Records as the largest municipal public library building in the world.

The University of Chicago, as seen from the Midway Plaisance

WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station.

The former Harpo Studios in West Loop, Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011 and other Harpo Production operations until 2015.

Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange, opened in the 1960s

Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States.

Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station

Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus

Most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the third-most populous city in the United States, following New York City and Los Angeles.

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Illinois

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State in the Midwestern United States.

Mississippian copper plate found at the Saddle Site in Union County, Illinois

Illinois in 1718, approximate modern state area highlighted, from Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi by Guillaume de L'Isle

The bell donated by King Louis XV in 1741 to the mission at Kaskaskia. It was later called the "Liberty Bell of the West", after it was rung to celebrate U.S. victory in the Revolution

In 1818, Illinois became the 21st U.S. state. The southern portion of Illinois Territory was admitted as the state of Illinois, and the rest was joined to Michigan Territory.

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Old State Capitol]]: Abraham Lincoln and other area legislators were instrumental in moving the state capitol to centrally located Springfield in 1839.

Embarkation of Union troops from Cairo on January 10, 1862

Charles Mound, the highest natural point in Illinois at 1,235 feet above sea level, is located in the Driftless Area in the northwestern part of the state.

At 279 feet above sea level, the lowest elevation point in the state is located near Cairo and the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

Density map displaying the population of Illinois

The Baháʼí House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago at the heart of Chicago's financial center

Byron Nuclear Generating Station in Ogle County

Average annual wind power distribution for Illinois, 50 m height above ground (2009)

The Illinois State Capitol in Springfield

Vandalia State House State Historic Site in Vandalia

The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago

Magnolia Manor is a Victorian period historic house museum in Cairo.

Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield

A Railway Post Office preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union

Standard license plate introduced in 2017

Illinois license plate design used throughout the 1980s and 1990s, displaying the Land of Lincoln slogan that has been featured on the state's plates since 1954

Chicago is its largest city, and the state's capital is Springfield; other major metropolitan areas include Metro East (of Greater St. Louis), Peoria and Rockford.

South Side, Chicago

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A typical Chicago Bungalow, examples of which are found in abundance on the South Side.

Ida Wells lived in the Ida Wells House, a Chicago Landmark in the Bronzeville historic district.

The intersection of East 35th Street and South Giles Avenue, 1973. Photo by John H. White.

Last Robert Taylor Home, 2005, since demolished

The South Side is an area of Chicago, Illinois, U.S. It lies south of the city's Loop area in the downtown.

Chicago Loop

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Willis Tower, formerly Sears Tower, is the third tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.

View of the Chicago 'L' tracks, 35 East Wacker, and Trump International Hotel and Tower

The northwest corner of the CTA Loop, which was once the busiest railroad junction in the world.

A sign commemorating the terminus of Route 66

The Chicago River is the south border of the Near North Side (right) and the north border of the Loop; the Loop's Near East Side is to the left in this picture.

The Loop, one of Chicago's 77 designated community areas, is the central business district of the city and is the main section of Downtown Chicago.

Chicago metropolitan area

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Metropolitan area in the Midwestern United States.

A map of Chicagoland in relation to the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana.

Airborne view of the dense southern part of Chicago, running alongside Lake Michigan. Downtown Chicago is at the far left by the lake in the photo.

The extent of the 16-county Chicago CSA (in black) and the 16 counties that share a border with the Chicago CSA (in gray), with counties divided into Minor Civil Divisions. In Illinois and Indiana, townships are intermediate between counties and municipalities (with the latter lying within townships and crossing township borders), while in Michigan and Wisconsin, townships are a type of municipality.

Westward view from the Willis Tower in Chicago

Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago

Taken from the ISS on June 23, 2022; downtown Chicago is at the center by the lake

Encompassing 10,286 sq mi (28,120 km2), the metropolitan area includes the city of Chicago, its suburbs and hinterland, spanning 14 counties in northeast Illinois, northwest Indiana, and a small portion of southeast Wisconsin.

Grant Park (Chicago)

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This 1893 sketch of the Art Institute of Chicago shows most of today's Grant Park still submerged under Lake Michigan with railroad tracks running along the shoreline behind the Museum

2007 Chicago Jazz Festival at Petrillo Music Shell

Millennium Park and the new Maggie Daley Park comprise the northern end of Grant Park

Grant Park, Monroe Harbor, and Chicago skyline 2004 from Museum Campus

Grant Park is a large urban park 319 acre in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.

New York City

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Most populous city in the United States.

New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it "New York"

Fort George and the City of New York c. 1731. Royal Navy ships of the line are seen guarding what would become New York Harbor.

Columbia University was founded by royal charter in 1754 under the name of King's College.

The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolution, took place in Brooklyn in 1776.

Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.

The current 5 boroughs of Greater New York as they appeared in 1814. Bronx was in Westchester County, Queens County included modern Nassau County, Kings County had 6 towns, one of which was Brooklyn, New York City is shown by hatching in southern New York County on the island of Manhattan, and Richmond County on Staten Island.

A construction worker atop the Empire State Building as it was being built in 1930. The Chrysler Building is behind him.

Manhattan's Little Italy, Lower East Side, circa 1900

The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement

United Airlines Flight 175 hits the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

The core of the New York City metropolitan area, with Manhattan Island at its center

Lower and Midtown Manhattan, as seen by a SkySat satellite in 2017

Central Park in Winter by Raymond Speers, in Munsey's Magazine, February 1900

Flushing Meadows–Corona Park was used in both the 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fair, with the Unisphere as the centerpiece of the latter and which remains today.

The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York Harbor is a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity.

View of The Pond and Midtown Manhattan from the Gapstow Bridge in Central Park, one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, in 2019

California sea lions play at the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo.

A map of racial distribution in New York, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people:

The landmark Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral, Midtown Manhattan

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish residents in Brooklyn. Brooklyn has the largest Jewish community in the United States, with approximately 600,000 individuals.

The Islamic Cultural Center of New York in Upper Manhattan was the first mosque built in New York City.

Ganesh Temple in Flushing, Queens, is the oldest Hindu temple in the Western Hemisphere.

The New York Stock Exchange, by a significant margin the world's largest stock exchange per market capitalization of its listed companies, at US$23.1 trillion as of April 2018. Pictured is the exchange's building on Wall Street.

The Deutsche Bank Center as viewed from Central Park West

Times Square is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a media center. It also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 50 million.

Rockefeller Center is home to NBC Studios.

Times Square Studios, home of Good Morning America

Butler Library at Columbia University, described as one of the most beautiful college libraries in the United States

The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of both New York University (NYU) and its Greenwich Village neighborhood

New York-Presbyterian Hospital, affiliated with Columbia University and Cornell University, the largest hospital and largest private employer in New York City and one of the world's busiest

The New York Police Department (NYPD) is the largest police force in the United States.

Police officers of New York Police Department (NYPD)

The Fire Department of New York (FDNY) is the largest municipal fire department in the United States.

The Stephen A. Schwarzman Headquarters Building of the New York Public Library, at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street

The fast-paced streets of New York City, January 2020

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, part of Museum Mile, is one of the largest museums in the world.

Smorgasburg opened in 2011 as an open-air food market and is part of the Brooklyn Flea.

As of 2012, the city had about 6,000 hybrid taxis (shown) in service, the largest number of any city in North America.

New York City Hall is the oldest City Hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions.

The New York County Courthouse houses the New York Supreme Court and other offices.

Eric Adams, the current and 110th Mayor of New York City

New York City is home to the two busiest train stations in the U.S., including Grand Central Terminal.

The New York City Subway is the world's largest rapid transit system by number of stations.

The Port Authority Bus Terminal, the world's busiest bus station, at 8th Avenue and 42nd Street

John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States

The Staten Island Ferry shuttles commuters between Manhattan and Staten Island.

Yellow medallion taxicabs are widely recognized icons of the city.

8th Avenue, looking northward ("uptown"). Most streets and avenues in Manhattan's grid plan incorporate a one-way traffic configuration.

The George Washington Bridge, connecting Upper Manhattan (background) from Fort Lee, New Jersey across the Hudson River, is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge.

The growing skyline of Long Island City, Queens (background),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-30/nyc-s-fastest-growing-neighborhood-gets-180-million-investment|title=NYC's Fastest-Growing Neighborhood Gets $180 Million Investment|first=Henry|last=Goldman|date=October 30, 2018|publisher=Bloomberg L.P|access-date=October 30, 2018}}</ref> facing the East River and Manhattan in May 2017

The Grand Concourse in the Bronx, foreground, with Manhattan in the background in February 2018

St. George, Staten Island as seen from the Staten Island Ferry, the world's busiest passenger-only ferry system, shuttling passengers between Manhattan and Staten Island

The Asia gate entrance to the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo.

The Spanish Harlem Orchestra. New York City is home to nearly 3 million Latino Americans, the largest Hispanic population of any city outside Latin America and Spain.

The Financial District of Lower Manhattan including Wall Street, the world's principal financial center

New York City gained more residents between 2010 and 2020 (629,000) than any other U.S. city, and a greater amount than the total sum of the gains over the same decade of the next four largest U.S. cities, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Phoenix, Arizona combined.

Cook County, Illinois

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Most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County, California.

Cook County and adjacent counties, from ISS Expedition 37 in 2013.

Cook County 1836–39 after the creation of McHenry and Will Counties

Cook County was reduced to its current size in 1839 by the creation of DuPage County.

Its county seat is Chicago, the most populous city in Illinois and the third-most-populous city in the United States.

Midwestern United States

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One of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau .

Divisions of the Midwest by the U.S. Census Bureau into East North Central and West North Central, separated largely by the Mississippi River.

Scotts Bluff National Monument in western Nebraska

The Driftless Area as viewed from Wildcat Mountain State Park in Vernon County, Wisconsin

Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota

Prairie in Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa

Monks Mound, located at the Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois, is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in America north of Mesoamerica and a World Heritage Site

Young Oglala Lakota girl in front of tipi with puppy beside her, probably on or near Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota

Cumulus clouds hover above a yellowish prairie at Badlands National Park, South Dakota, native lands to the Sioux.

c. 1681 map of Marquette and Jolliet's 1673 expedition

Beaver hunting grounds, the basis of the fur trade

The state cessions that eventually allowed for the creation of the territories north and southwest of the River Ohio

Lake Michigan is shared by four Midwestern states: Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

The Upper Mississippi River near Harpers Ferry, Iowa

An animation depicting when United States territories and states forbade or allowed slavery, 1789–1861

A map of various Underground Railroad routes

Minneapolis, Minnesota is on the Mississippi River

Omaha, Nebraska, is on the Missouri River

Distribution of Americans claiming German Ancestry by county in 2018

German population density in the United States, 1870 census

A pastoral farm scene near Traverse City, Michigan, with a classic American red barn

Standing wheat in Kansas, part of America's Breadbasket

Soybean fields at Applethorpe Farm, north of Hallsville in Ross County, Ohio

The Chicago Board of Trade Building a National Historic Landmark

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland

Mount Rushmore is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

The Milwaukee Art Museum is located on Lake Michigan.

The first local meeting of the new Republican Party took place here in Ripon, Wisconsin on March 20, 1854.

Midwestern U.S. Senators by party for the 117th Congress

Midwestern U.S. Representatives by party for the 117th Congress

Chicago is the most populous city in the American Midwest and the third most populous in the United States.

Chicago River

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Aerial view of the North Branch of the Chicago River, from the south, with Goose Island, near center

The Chicago 'L' Ravenswood train (Brown Line) crossing the north branch of the Chicago River

View west along the main stem of the Chicago River from the Outer Drive Bridge, 2009

The main stem of the river, Wrigley Building, and Tribune Tower at night.

Kayakers take a break at Wolf Point with 333 West Wacker, Lake Street Bridge and the south skyline in the background

A view of the Chicago River from the South Branch, looking toward the main stem (right) and the North Branch (upper left) at Wolf Point

View from the U.S. Turning Basin towards the Chicago Loop

Passengers being rescued from the hull of the Eastland by the tugboat Kenosha in the Chicago River

State Street Bridge raised to allow boats to pass

The Chicago River dyed green for Saint Patrick’s Day

Near the mouth of the Chicago River 1831

Near the mouth of the Chicago River 1838

Near the mouth of the Chicago River 1893

Near the mouth of the Chicago River c. late 1800s

Mouth of the river in the early 20th century

The river dyed green for Saint Patrick's Day in 2015

The river dyed blue during the Chicago Cubs' 2016 World Series celebration

The Chicago River is a system of rivers and canals with a combined length of 156 mi that runs through the city of Chicago, including its center (the Chicago Loop).

Hyde Park, Chicago

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Engraving of the Hyde Park Water Works, 1882

In 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition was held in Hyde Park and Woodlawn.

The southwestern part of Hyde Park serves as the campus of the University of Chicago

Looking east along South Shore Drive near 55th St. in Hyde Park (aka East Hyde Park)

U.S. President Barack Obama has lived near Hyde Park for more than twenty years.

Nuclear Energy, a sculpture by Henry Moore marking the site of Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor.

The courtyard of the Hyde Park Shopping Center

The University of Chicago as seen from the Midway Plaisance, a wide boulevard connecting Jackson Park and Washington Park.

The Robie House, a National Historic Landmark designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1908.

The Rockefeller Chapel, located on the University of Chicago campus and named after University of Chicago founder John D. Rockefeller.

The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, founded by the prominent educational reformer John Dewey in 1896.

The Hampton House, a condominium located on the property that once housed the Hyde Park House (Hyde Park's first hotel). In the 1980s, the Hampton House was home to Chicago Mayor Harold Washington.

A monument marking the location of the first kiss between Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, located on the corner of 53rd Street and Dorchester Avenue.

Osaka Garden, a Japanese garden in Jackson Park.

Downtown Chicago and lakefront condominiums in Hyde Park as seen from the northern side of Promontory Point.

Hyde Park is the 41st of the 77 community areas of Chicago.