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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Camille Claudel comes into her own in the Getty Museum’s major retrospective

People's World 16 May 2024
A comprehensive exhibition currently on view at the J ... The exhibition co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago includes about 60 sculptures, several of them variants on the same idea, iterated, for example, in plaster, bronze, and marble ... Claudel’s ‘Bust of Rodin,’ first exhibited in 1892....
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Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi 'honoured' to lead Biennale of Sydney 2026

The National 16 May 2024
Read More ... The first took place in 1973. It has grown to become one of the longest-running exhibitions of its kind and was the first biennale to be established in the Asia-Pacific region ... View this post on Instagram ... She has also co-curated exhibitions for the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.Updated ... .......
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Paintings By Forgotten Artist Kyohei Inukai Are Headed to the Brooklyn Museum

New York Observer 16 May 2024
as a teenager and studied at San Francisco’s Mark Hopkins Institute of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. He made his way to New York City by 1915 and was regularly the only Japanese artist admitted into exhibitions at the National Academy of Design and the Grand Central Art Galleries....
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When will Lionel Messi return from leg injury? Here's what we know after draw vs. Orlando

Usatoday 16 May 2024
Soccer star Lionel Messi's Barcelona pre-contract napkin on auction block ... United ... “The idea is that it will play on Saturday, but it will depend on how he continues to recover ... D.C ... WATCH ... TICKETS ... Argentina will also play two exhibitions before the tournament on June 9 against Ecuador in Chicago, and on June 14 against Guatemala in Landover, Maryland....
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Walter Hagen may be the GOAT from Rochester. And he easily was the most colorful

Democrat & Chronicle 16 May 2024
And it's the same trophy that Rochester native Walter Hagen famously lost during a night spent partying in Chicago nearly a century ago ... After winning his third PGA Championship in Chicago in 1925, Hagen was booked for a two-week run of exhibition matches beginning 24 hours later in Waterloo, Iowa....
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Things to do in Chicago May 16-22: The Mix

Chicago Sun-Times 16 May 2024
Director Hershey Kaur Suri reimagines the story through the lens of a South Asian family living in the Chicago suburbs ... May 22 at Space, 1245 Chicago, Evanston ... Mapping South Asian American Art in Chicago” is the first comprehensive exhibition to map and disseminate the history of South Asian art and artists in Chicago ... Exhibition Hub....
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A trillion cicadas will emerge in the next few weeks. This hasn’t happened since 1803.

Grist 15 May 2024
And if you live in Chicago, you know the Cicadalypse is coming ... For a little perspective, consider that in 1803 Chicago was not yet a city, just a fort built at the intersection of what is now Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive ... Stephanie Adams, a scientist at the Morton Arboretum in suburban Chicago, displays a cicada in her palm....
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Thompson Center artwork — Where did it all go?

Chicago Sun-Times 15 May 2024
Passing the Thompson Center’s front facade, Guenther — a preparator of collections and exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago — encountered late French artist Jean Dubuffet’s sculpture "Monument with Standing Beast" — mid-disassembly, its parts rigged and loaded onto pallets....
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WNBA is entering a new era: skyrocketing viewership, sold-out arenas, young stars

West Hawaii Today 14 May 2024
The first preseason exhibition for Chicago Sky rookies Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso was not on traditional television, but more than 500,000 viewers tuned in to a phone stream from a resourceful fan ... The Chicago Sky practice at a public facility; the Sachs Recreation Center ......
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Study shows natural shorelines support greater biodiversity in the Chicago river

Phys Dot Org 13 May 2024
The study, conducted by Shedd Aquarium, Illinois Department of Natural Resources and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, revealed important trends in fish diversity and abundance along various types of shorelines in the Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS) ... Chicago River....
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Mayor Johnson at one year in office: Former activist grapples with being the boss

Chicago Tribune 12 May 2024
As he approached his first anniversary in office, the freshman mayor whose political career began at the firebrand Chicago Teachers Union looked right at home before the adoring crowd of self-proclaimed troublemakers at the annual Labor Notes conference in April near O’Hare International Airport ... Kim/Chicago Tribune) ... Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)....
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Landmarks: Story of Roosevelt’s globe highlights revived Dixie Highway tour

Chicago Tribune 12 May 2024
For a little while, there was a big secret in Chicago Heights ... in Chicago Heights, along with the U.S ... The School Board chipped in the remainder, and when word got out, the Chicago History Museum requested the artifact on temporary loan for a Chicago in Wartime exhibit marking the 50th anniversary of World War II in 1992....
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