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Chicago
[ shi-kah-goh, -kaw- ]
noun
- Judy Judy Cohen, born 1939, U.S. artist, author, and educator.
- a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan: second largest city in the U.S.
- a river formed in Chicago that flows through downtown and, as engineered, to the Des Plaines River: part of the Illinois Waterway.
Chicago
/ 蕛瑟藞办蓱藧伞蓹蕣 /
noun
- a port in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan: the third largest city in the US; it is a major railway and air traffic centre. Pop: 2聽869聽121 (2003 est)
Chicago
- Largest city in Illinois ; located on Lake Michigan .
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Carl Sandburg , in his poem 鈥淐hicago,鈥 called the city the 鈥淗og Butcher for the World鈥 because of Chicago's heavy involvement in the meatpacking industry.
During the time of Prohibition , Chicago was controlled by gangsters, Al Capone being the most notorious. Gangster warfare continued long after this particularly violent period.
Originally called the 鈥淲indy City鈥 because the city bragged about the 1893 World Expo that was held there. The term has since come to refer to the strong northern winds that blow off the lake in the winter.
Chicago's downtown is referred to as the 鈥淟oop鈥 because it is enclosed by elevated railways, called the 鈥淓l.鈥
For many years the second largest city in the United States, before being displaced by Los Angeles , and therefore referred to as the 鈥淪econd City.鈥
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Chicago now have the first option to speak to De Bruyne, who announced in April he would be leaving City when his current deal expires at the end of the season.
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The DHS said a first "illegal alien" had already taken up the offer, receiving a ticket for a flight from Chicago to Honduras.
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Such 鈥渃osmic choreography鈥 touched writer-producer Jill Goldsmith nearly 30 years ago, she said, when she left her job as a public defender in Chicago to pursue TV writing.
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In 1995, Gibson earned his bachelor鈥檚 degree from the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Chicago is Channel 5 and in Denver/Boulder it鈥檚 Channel 9.
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