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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Flag of Chicago

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The flag of Chicago consists of two light blue horizontal bars, or stripes, on a field of white, each bar one-sixth the height of the full flag, and placed slightly less than one-sixth of the way from the top and bottom.

Kitty Kelly holding Flag of Chicago from the Chicago Tribune, 1921. Note the two stars on the flag at the time.

City of Chicago Flag, with the Star Spangled Banner and Illinois State Flag at its sides at Navy Pier

The Chicago PD's flag; adopted in April 1977.

The flag of NAVA Meeting 31, hosted in Chicago. NAVA meeting flags often incorporate elements to reflect the host city.

Sketches for the flag from a contest from 1892. This design ultimately became used in the municipal device.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-flag-origins-flag-day-htmlstory.html|title=Chicago's flag: The history of every star and every stripe|last=Marx|first=Kori Rumore and Ryan|website=Chicago Tribune|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-07}}</ref>

Twenty-three other icons that were commissioned representing different city departments that could be placed on the flag for that department.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-flag-origins-flag-day-htmlstory.html|title=Chicago's flag: The history of every star and every stripe|last=Marx|first=Kori Rumore and Ryan|website=chicagotribune.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-07}}</ref>

Chicago flag of 1917 poster, with "I Will" motto

The City of Chicago's flag was adopted in 1917 after the design by Wallace Rice won a City Council sponsored competition.

Detroit

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Largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan.

Topographical plan of the Town of Detroit and Fort Lernoult showing major streets, gardens, fortifications, military complexes, and public buildings (John Jacob Ulrich Rivardi, ca. 1800)

An electric PCC streetcar in Detroit, 1953

The former Packard Automotive Plant, closed since 1958

Construction progress at Hudson's Site in 2021.

A Satellite image from Sentinel-2 taken in September 2021 of Detroit and its surrounding metropolitan area with Windsor across the river.

Ally Detroit Center and the Michigan Labor Legacy Monument

The Detroit Financial District viewed from across the Detroit River

The Cass Park Historic District in Midtown

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

Chaldean Town, a historically Chaldean neighborhood in Detroit.

The First National Building, a class-A office center within the Detroit Financial District.

The Detroit River is one of the busiest straits in the world. Lake freighter MV American Courage passing the strait.

"Motown Mansion" in Boston-Edison Historic District; former home of Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Records

The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant, birthplace of the Ford Model T and the world's oldest car factory building open to the public.

The Guardian Building serves as the headquarters of Wayne County

College of Business Administration, University of Detroit Mercy

DeRoy Auditorium at Wayne State University, by Minoru Yamasaki

Offices of the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News

Harper Hospital and Hutzel Women's Hospital

The Detroit People Mover (DPM) elevated railway in Bricktown

A QLine streetcar at Campus Martius station

Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW), the principal airport serving Detroit, is located in nearby Romulus

J.W. Westcott II on the Detroit River in front of the Ambassador Bridge

The City of Detroit anchors the second-largest regional economy in the Midwest, behind Chicago and ahead of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, and the 14th-largest in the United States.

O'Hare International Airport

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Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat on display in O'Hare's Terminal 2, restored in the markings of "Butch" O'Hare's plane

Reconstructed Brachiosaurus skeleton, formerly in the Field Museum, exhibited at the airport since 1999

Control tower and terminals 3 & 2 seen from ATS (Airport Transit System)

The Terminal 1 underground tunnel connects Concourses B and C

Chicago O'Hare International Airport, typically referred to as O'Hare Airport, Chicago O'Hare, or simply O'Hare, is the main international airport located on the Northwest Side of Chicago, Illinois, 17 mi northwest of the Loop business district.

Navy Pier

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During construction, 1915 (Chicago Daily News)

The iconic Navy Pier wheel, which was retired on September 27, 2015

Navy Pier is a 3300 ft pier on the shoreline of Lake Michigan, located in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community area in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Chicago race riot of 1919

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African American men in front of Walgreen Drugs (now called Walgreens) at 35th and S. State St. in the Douglas community area

Three African American men moving furniture.

A map of the riot-affected areas on the South Side of Chicago, with the Union Stock Yards visible. North is to the right.

House with broken windows and debris in front yard

$A white gang looking for African Americans during the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. This and a subsequent picture at The Crisis Magazine 1919 Vol 18 No. 6 is part of a series of the Chicago race riots of 1919. The first pictures of the white gang chasing a victim are at <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&id=57044693CA7748A64E432B8B0C5B23C2FC9838EA&thid=OIP.ni3K59jjumKcB5pqVSgUtQHaFf&mediaurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmonovisions.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F02%2FChicago-1919-race-riot-01.jpg&exph=778&expw=1050&q=Chcicago+race+riot+1919&selectedindex=13&ajaxhist=0&vt=0&eim=0,1,2,6|title = Chcicago race riot 1919 - Bing}}</ref> and <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&id=335A6D7B3F2066DD52130F7EA895B01C299C74DC&thid=OIP.qmZwJsGfHLJOksDOMLJuFgHaFs&mediaurl=https%3A%2F%2Fflashbak.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F03%2FMob-chasing-victim-during-race-riots.jpg&exph=922&expw=1200&q=Chcicago+race+riot+1919&selectedindex=2&ajaxhist=0&vt=0&eim=0,1,2,6&ccid=qmZwJsGf&simid=608000508424293275&pivotparams=insightsToken%3Dccid_ebYPXKAe*mid_E80B04A3A227EBA9C749CFB3C5FF6AADE29861D1*simid_608021175842376018*thid_OIP.ebYPXKAeCfsf5eZnZewaTAHaFl&iss=VSI|title=Chcicago race riot 1919 - Bing}}</ref>$

A fifth picture from the series; an African American man assaulted with stones during the Chicago Race Riot.<ref>Note this picture was printed backwards – see corrected version at .</ref> A subsequent 6th and 7th pictures show the arrival of police officers and the victim.

White men and boys standing in front of a vandalized house.

The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a violent racial conflict between white Americans and black Americans that began on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, on July 27 and ended on August 3, 1919.