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Encyclopedia > Chicago (disambiguation)

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As a title: Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Official website: http://egov. ... Chicago is a rock band that was formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. ... The University of Chicago is an elite private university principally located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1890 and opened in 1892. ... [[image:Madrid-metro-1. ... Quincy L Station serving the Brown Line, Purple Line and Orange Line The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), founded on October 1, 1947, provides bus and rail mass transit services to the citizens of Chicago and several of the citys inner suburbs. ... The Chicago Elevated is the principal urban heavy rail and metro serving Chicago, Illinois in the United States. ... Chicago is an elevated station on the Chicago Transit Authoritys L system, located in the Near North Side at 300 West Chicago Avenue in Chicago, Illinois (directional coordinates 800 north, 300 west). ... Chicago house is a style of house music. ... The poker game called Chicago is one of the most popular card games in Sweden today. ... Chicago is a sans-serif font designed by Susan Kare for Apple Computer. ... Windows 95 (codename Chicago) is a hybrid 16-bit/32-bit graphical user interface-based operating system released on August 24, 1995 by the Microsoft Corporation. ... The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) is a highly regarded style guide for American English, dealing with questions of style, manuscript preparation, and, to a lesser degree, usage. ... 334 Chicago is a very large Main belt asteroid. ... Four United States Navy ships have been named USS Chicago, after the city of Chicago, Illinois. ... Stud poker is any of a number of poker variants in which each player receives a mix of face-down and face-up cards dealt in multiple betting rounds. ... The Land Of Smelly Onions refers to the swampy area next to Lake Michigan that existed around the 18th century in present day Chicago. ...


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Chicago, Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (7601 words)
Chicago's politics lean famously to the left compared to the rest of the Midwest, and it is often said that Chicago is the "East Coast" of the Midwest.
The Lyric Opera of Chicago was founded in 1954 and performs in the Civic Opera Building, which was built in 1929 on the east bank of the Chicago River and is the second-largest opera auditorium in North America, with 3,563 seats.
The Chicago Bulls of the NBA are arguably the most recognized basketball team in the world, thanks to the heroics of a player often cited as the best ever, Michael Jordan, who led the team to six NBA championships in eight seasons in the 1990s.
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