A report on Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Harry Caray and Chicago

Caray in the Wrigley Field booth in 1988

The 1876 White Stockings won the NL championship.

Caray in 1951, when he was with the St. Louis Cardinals. The team's broadcasts were sponsored by the Griesedieck Brothers brewery prior to its purchase by Anheuser-Busch in 1953.

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

The 1906 Cubs won a record 116 of 154 games. They then won back-to-back World Series titles in 1907–08.

Ed Walsh holds the record for lowest career earned run average (ERA), 1.82

U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the press box with Caray during a 1988 game at Wrigley Field

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

Caray using his net to catch a foul ball in the Cardinals broadcast booth, 1957. He continued this practice when he worked for other teams.

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

Harry Caray's statue outside Wrigley Field

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

The White Sox celebrate after winning a tie-breaker game against the Minnesota Twins for a spot in the 2008 playoffs

Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention

A sports-related curse that was supposedly placed on the Chicago Cubs by Billy Goat Tavern owner William Sianis during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series.

View from the upper deck of U.S. Cellular Field in 2006

Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront

Ryne Sandberg set numerous league and club records in his career and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2005.

Andre Dawson, 5× All-Star and 1987 NL MVP during tenure in Chicago

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

Sammy Sosa was the captain of the Chicago Cubs during his tenure with the team.

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

Kerry Wood, along with Mark Prior, led the Cubs' rotation in 2003.

Eddie Murphy, John "Shano" Collins, Joe Jackson, Happy Felsch, and Nemo Leibold in their dugout during the 1917 World Series

Downtown Chicago and the Chicago River during January 2014 cold wave

Dempster emerged in 2004 and became the Cubs' regular closer.

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

Alfonso Soriano signed with the club in 2007.

Carlos Zambrano warming up before a game

Starlin Castro during his 2010 rookie season

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

One of two Cubs building blocks, Anthony Rizzo, swinging in the box

The Cubs celebrate after winning the 2016 World Series.

2016 Champions visit the White House in June 2017.

Minnie Miñoso (1951–57, 1960–61, 1964, 1976, 1980)

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

Bill Veeck, White Sox owner (1959–61, 1975–80) who revolutionized baseball by introducing many innovations in promotion

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

Fielder Jones of the White Sox hits the ball against Cubs at West Side Grounds, 1905

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

Harrelson in the broadcast booth in 2007

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

The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago.

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The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago.

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After a year working for the Oakland Athletics and 11 years with the Chicago White Sox, Caray spent the last 16 years of his career as the announcer for the Chicago Cubs.

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The Cubs are one of two major league teams based in Chicago; the other, the Chicago White Sox, is a member of the American League (AL) Central division.

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The White Sox are one of two MLB teams based in Chicago, the other being the Chicago Cubs of the National League (NL) Central division.

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At the top of the order, Dernier and Sandberg were exciting, aptly coined "the Daily Double" by Harry Caray.

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Caray's funeral was held on February 27, 1998, at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago.

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A number of statues also honor recent local heroes such as Michael Jordan (by Amrany and Rotblatt-Amrany), Stan Mikita, and Bobby Hull outside of the United Center; Harry Caray (by Amrany and Cella) outside Wrigley field, Jack Brickhouse (by McKenna) next to the WGN studios, and Irv Kupcinet at the Wabash Avenue Bridge.

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After Elson's retirement in 1970, Harry Caray began his tenure as the voice of the White Sox, on radio and on television.

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The city has two Major League Baseball (MLB) teams: the Chicago Cubs of the National League play in Wrigley Field on the North Side; and the Chicago White Sox of the American League play in Guaranteed Rate Field on the South Side.

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News van outside the Dirksen Federal Building in June 2018.

WGN-TV (channel 9) is an independent television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

WGN-TV also became more reliant on sports programming, led by its broadcasts of Chicago Cubs baseball games as well as other regional collegiate and professional teams.

The Broadcast Center, which began housing some local program production on January 16 of that year, was developed for color broadcasting—allowing the station to televise live studio shows as well as Chicago Cubs and White Sox baseball games in the format—and with civil defense concerns in mind to provide a safe location to conduct broadcasts in the event of a hostile attack (such as a bombing by a nuclear weapon) targeting downtown Chicago.

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