Chicago

Chicago (i/ʃˈkɑːɡ/ or /ʃˈkɔːɡ/) is the third most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois and the Midwest. The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, has nearly 10 million people and is the third-largest in the U.S. Chicago is the seat of Cook County.

Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century. The city is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation: O'Hare International Airport is the busiest airport in the world when measured by aircraft traffic; it also has the largest number of U.S. highways and rail road freight. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranked seventh in the world in the 2014 Global Cities Index.As of 2014, Chicago had the third largest gross metropolitan product in the United States at US$610.5 billion.

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Things to Do in Chicago May 2-8, 2024

Chicago Sun-Times 02 May 2024
Bluey’s Big Play,” the stage show, arrives in Chicago this weekend ... Chicago Writers’ Bloc presents its New Play Festival featuring 10 new works by Chicago writers ranging from comedies and dramas to documentary theater ... The Chicago stop on the exhibit’s tour also includes works and archival materials relating to Chryssa’s relationship to Chicago....
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Mary Jane Yohe remembered 75 years after beginning pioneering legal career

York Daily Record 01 May 2024
I was taking in a new exhibit at York College’s Archives about students and campus life and immediately recognized some prominent collegians and memorable events from the past ... Louis Cardinals to the Chicago Cubs between games of a doubleheader in 1922. And part of this exhibit ......
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Chryssa exhibit a vivid reminder of all-but-forgotten Greek artist and her impact on American art

Chicago Sun-Times 26 Apr 2024
A touring exhibition that opens May 3 at ... Although the exhibition is centered on New York, the Wrightwood installation also touches on Chryssa’s connections to Chicago, where she almost moved to in 1994, according to a letter that she wrote to the Art Institute of Chicago....
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Things to Do in Chicago April 25-May 1

Chicago Sun-Times 25 Apr 2024
Paloma Nozicka and Nate Santana in rehearsal for Steppenwolf Theatre’s Chicago premiere of “The Thanksgiving Play.” Joel Moorman ... Presented in partnership with the Design Museum of Chicago and The Vintage House Show Collective, the exhibit explores the history of the artists, clubs and labels that built the style of house pioneers and artists....
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Baseball boosted Japanese Americans during internment camps. A field in the desert may retell the story.

Usatoday 25 Apr 2024
His uncle, Johnny Nakagawa, is pictured in a famous portrait alongside Ruth and Gehrig from their Fresno exhibition ... Yet since her husband, Jack, had enlisted in the Army before internment, he avoided internment and was able to play on an Army all-star team that defeated the Chicago Cubs in an exhibition....
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Young innovators energize Korea's 2024 art fair scene

Korea Times 22 Apr 2024
The result? A dynamic mix of major dealers, such as Berlin-headquartered Esther Schipper and Hong Kong-founded Pearl Lam Galleries, alongside fast-growing galleries like Chicago’s Mariane Ibrahim Gallery and Seoul’s CYLINDER, all intermingling across the three exhibition halls of SETEC....
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Christina Ramberg retrospective opens at Art Institute nearly 30 years after her untimely death

Chicago Sun-Times 21 Apr 2024
Collection of Anstiss and Ronald Krueck, Chicago ... Collection of Anstiss and Ronald Krueck, Chicago ... Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S ... A Retrospective,” a stunning, much-deserved exhibition that opens April 20 at the Art Institute of Chicago, comes in ... Collection of the Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Family, Chicago ... Dempsey, Chicago ... Dempsey, Chicago....
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Why Miniatures Inspire Such Awe

The Atlantic 20 Apr 2024
In 1933, hundreds of thousands of people lined up at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition to see not some futuristic technology but an exhibit of 30 miniature rooms, imagined, commissioned, and furnished by Thorne ... James Ward Thorne.” (The Art Institute of Chicago.) Miniatures are often said to be all about control....
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A Quartet of Career-Spanning Joan Mitchell Paintings Could Realize $50M at Auction

New York Observer 19 Apr 2024
The upcoming sale also comes on the heels of two Mitchell retrospectives at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Baltimore Museum of Art and the 2022 “Monet-Mitchell” exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton. Originally from Chicago, Mitchell studied at the School ......
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Design, Art, Fashion, Or Beyond? Jonathan Anderson Brings The Work Of Patrick Carroll To Milan Design Week

Vogue 19 Apr 2024
“I reached a point where I felt as though the craft was sufficiently developed that I wanted to see how it would operate within the idiom of art.” In between that fashion show and this art show, Carroll has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Nebraska, but this ......
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Vintage Chicago Tribune: Paul Durica’s March 1924 finds

Chicago Tribune 18 Apr 2024
We’re checking in on our friend Paul Durica, director of exhibitions for the Chicago History Museum, as he continues to wade daily through pages of the Chicago Tribune from 100 years ago ... A Chicago Barn Dance” Saturday at the Hideout, 1354 W ... (Chicago Tribune) ... John Duffy, an underworld figure in Chicago who was murdered in March 1924....
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Afternoon Briefing: Johnson bond plan advances, then gets delayed

Chicago Tribune 17 Apr 2024
Good afternoon, Chicago ... And remember, for the latest breaking news in Chicago, visit chicagotribune.com/latest-headlines and sign up to get our alerts on all your devices ... Highland Park plans scaled-down Fourth of July celebration 2 years after shooting Lake County salutes the return of cicadas with exhibition Jennifer Graves ... Meslar/Chicago Tribune....
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Review: Camille Claudel’s hand, not her trauma, is at the center of a magnificent Getty Museum show

The Los Angeles Times 17 Apr 2024
Camille Claudel,” a fascinating exhibition at the J ... Curators Anne-Lise Desmas at the Getty and Emerson Bowyer at the Art Institute of Chicago, where the show was seen last fall, make no bones about articulating the sculptor’s very real travails ... The exhibition was inspired by Getty and Art Institute of Chicago acquisitions in recent years....
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