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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Artist's rendering of the fire, by Currier and Ives; the view faces northeast across the Randolph Street Bridge

Great Chicago Fire

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1871 Chicago view before the 'Great Conflagration'

The cottage of Catherine and Patrick O'Leary, 137 (now 558) W. DeKoven St. As this view suggests, the neighborhood was congested with mean wooden buildings and a variety of industry, a condition which helped to spread the fire of 1871 as rapidly as it did. A strong wind blowing towards the northeast spared the O'Leary cottage and the buildings seen here to its west. From a stereoptican view by A.H. Abbott, Photographer, whose studio at 976 (now 2201) N. Clark Street was consumed by the flames.

1869 map of Chicago, altered to show the area destroyed by the fire (location of O'Leary's barn indicated by red dot)

Aftermath of the fire, corner of Dearborn and Monroe Streets, 1871

General Philip H. Sheridan, who saved Chicago three times: the Great Fire in October 1871, when he used explosives to stop the spread; again after the Great Fire, protecting the city; and lastly in 1877 during the "communist riots", riding in from 1,000 miles away to restore order.

More than 20 years after the Great Fire, 'The World Columbian Exposition of 1893', known as the 'White City', for being lit up with newly invented light bulbs and electric power.

A pre-fire house in Chicago on Cleveland Avenue (photographed in 2016)

1871 illustration from Harper's Magazine depicting Mrs. O'Leary milking the cow

The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871.

Fort Dearborn

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Artist's rendering of a bird's-eye view of the original Fort Dearborn

The Kinzie Mansion. Fort Dearborn is in the background.

London Guarantee Building with large relief above the entrance commemorating Fort Dearborn

A marker showing the fort's southern perimeter

Fort Dearborn was a United States fort built in 1803 beside the Chicago River, in what is now Chicago, Illinois.

The lagoon south of the Museum of Science and Industry

Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)

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Interior Of Palace Of Fine Arts — Official Views Of The World's Columbian Exposition

Museum of Science and Industry from 1700 East 56th Street

A U-505 flattened U.S. penny from the MSI

A tractor from a Mold-A-Rama machine at the museum

New York Central and Hudson River Railroad No. 999

The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) is a science museum located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago.

The Arthur family arrived at Chicago's Polk Street Depot on August 30, 1920, during the Great Migration.

Great Migration (African American)

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The movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.

African-American youths play basketball in Chicago's Stateway Gardens high-rise housing project in 1973.

The Hub is the retail heart of the South Bronx, New York City.

White tenants seeking to prevent Black people from moving into the Sojourner Truth housing project in Detroit erected this sign, 1942

Graph showing the percentage of the African-American population living in the American South, 1790–2010

The Great Migration shown by changes in the African-American share of populations of major U.S. cities, 1910–40 and 1940–70

Racially motivated murders per decade from 1865 to 1965.

A map of the black percentage of the U.S. population by each state/territory in 1900.

A map of the black percentage of the U.S. population by each state/territory in 1990.

A map showing the change in the total Black population (in percent) between 1900 and 1990 by U.S. state.

The historic change brought by the migration was amplified because the migrants, for the most part, moved to the then-largest cities in the United States (New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.) at a time when those cities had a central cultural, social, political, and economic influence over the United States.

Museum Campus

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Pedestrian tunnel in the Museum Campus running underneath Lake Shore Drive

Museum Campus is a 57 acre park in Chicago that sits alongside Lake Michigan in Grant Park and encompasses five of the city's most notable attractions: the Adler Planetarium, America's first planetarium; the Shedd Aquarium; the Field Museum of Natural History; Soldier Field, home of the NFL Chicago Bears football team; and the Lakeside Center of McCormick Place.

Chicago Tribune

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An 1870 advertisement for Chicago Tribune subscriptions

The lead editorial in the first issue the Chicago Tribune published after the Great Chicago Fire

Truman was widely expected to lose the 1948 election, and the Chicago Tribune ran the incorrect headline, "Dewey Defeats Truman".

Tribune Tower, Howells & Hood, architects, opened 1925

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing.

Burnham Park (Chicago)

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Burnham Harbor in Burnham Park with the Field Museum of Natural History in the foreground

Burnham Park is a public park located in Chicago, Illinois.

Chicago Bears

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The team's founder George Halas (right) with NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, early 1980s

1961 Chicago Bears offensive line in action. "Bears Workout at Soldier Field for Armed Forces game Friday."

Payton set several franchise and NFL records in rushing during his 13-season career with the Bears

Bears Hall of Famer Mike Ditka is the only person in the modern era to win an NFL championship as a player and coach for the Chicago Bears

The Bears made one of the biggest trades in team history by acquiring Pro Bowl quarterback Jay Cutler in 2009

Roquan Smith, Khalil Mack, DeAndre Houston-Carson, and Akiem Hicks of the Bears in 2018

Halas Hall in Lake Forest, Illinois is the Bears' headquarters.

Soldier Field in 2011, as seen from the lakeshore

The CNA Center in Chicago flashes a "GO BEARS" window display before a Bears Sunday Night Football game

Map of radio affiliates by tower location, thus WBBM's location in the western suburbs of Chicago.

The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago.

Art Institute of Chicago

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

Georges-Pierre Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte 1884–1886

Art Institute of Chicago, Michigan Avenue

El Greco, Saint Martin and the Beggar, c. 1597–1600

Rembrandt, Old Man with a Gold Chain, c. 1631

Antoine Watteau, Fête champêtre (Pastoral Gathering), 1718–1721

Eugène Delacroix, The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan, 1826

Édouard Manet, Seascape Calm Weather, 1864–1865

Édouard Manet, Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers, 1864–1865

Édouard Manet, The Philosopher, (Beggar with Oysters), 1864–1867

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beata Beatrix, c. 1871–1872

Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1876–1877

Claude Monet, Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, By the Water, 1880

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881

Paul Cézanne, The Bay of Marseilles, view from L'Estaque, 1885

Vincent van Gogh, Bedroom in Arles, 1888

Claude Monet, Wheatstacks (End of Summer), 1890–1891

Paul Cézanne, The Basket of Apples, c.1890s

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, 1892

Paul Gauguin, Why are you angry? (No te aha oe Riri), 1896

Winslow Homer, After the Hurricane, 1899

Pablo Picasso, 1904, Woman with a Helmet of Hair, gouache on tan wood pulp board

Edgar Degas, Woman at Her Toilette, c. 1900–1905

Pablo Picasso, 1909, Head of a Woman (Tête de femme)

Jean Metzinger, 1913, La Femme à l'Éventail (Woman with a Fan)

Wassily Kandinsky, 1912, Landscape With Two Poplars

Kazimir Malevich, Painterly Realism of a Football Player—Color Masses in the 4th Dimension, 1915

Amedeo Modigliani, Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz, 1916

A Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD), tomb sculpture of a pixiu (or chimera) creature

Saraswati playing an alapini vina, Bangladesh, Pala period 10th-12th century C.E.

Ancient Greek Amphora depicts Herakles killing the Nemean Lion, with Iolaus and Nemea on the left and Athena and Hermes on the right. 550–525 BC.

Illuminated Manuscript page from a Book of Hours, c. 1440/45

One of the Thorne Miniature Rooms, c. 1930s

Pieces from the porcelain collection in the Art Institute of Chicago

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Under the Wave off Kanagawa) Japanese woodblock print by Hokusai

The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world.

Montrose Avenue Beach (4400 N.) in Uptown

List of beaches in Chicago

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Extensive network of waterfront recreational areas operated by the Chicago Park District.

Ohio Street Beach (400 N.) in Near North

Fountain at 63rd Street beach house (6300 S.) in Jackson Park

Looking north, Oak Street Beach (bottom right) and North Ave Beach viewed from above

A woman enjoying herself at 12th Street Beach in 1973

The Chicago metropolitan waterfront includes parts of the Lake Michigan shores as well as parts of the banks of the Chicago, Des Plaines, Calumet, Fox, and DuPage Rivers and their tributaries.