Chicago
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Judy Judy Cohen, born 1939, U.S. artist, author, and educator.
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a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan: second largest city in the U.S.
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a river formed in Chicago that flows through downtown and, as engineered, to the Des Plaines River: part of the Illinois Waterway.
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Carl Sandburg, in his poem “Chicago,” called the city the “Hog Butcher for the World” 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 “Windy City” 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 “Loop” because it is enclosed by elevated railways, called the “El.”
For many years the second largest city in the United States, before being displaced by Los Angeles, and therefore referred to as the “Second City.”
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“Air power rarely produces friendly regime change,” said Robert A. Pape of the University of Chicago, a prominent scholar of air power.
From Los Angeles Times
For Kat Zamarrón, a music teacher at an elementary school on Chicago’s North Side, the uncertainty of not knowing when ICE might target students or staff has been trying.
From Salon
When Blue Owl sold $1.4 billion in tech-heavy private loans last month to cash out fleeing investors, the buyers were California’s $600 billion worker pension fund, two Canadian retirement funds and a Chicago area insurer.
The actor also offered a message of camaraderie to her fellow SAG-AFTRA members, citing the Chicago upbringing that made her a “union person.”
From Los Angeles Times
It sponsored conferences for financial advisers of Morgan Stanley, UBS and others, and recently flew investment advisers to Chicago, putting them up at The Langham hotel with dinner at Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse.
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