Chicago

City in Illinois, United States.

Famous attractions

  Sears Tower
  [Standard Oil building]?
  [John Hancock building]?
  [Buckingham Fountain]?
  [Grant Park]?
  [Navy Pier]?
  [McComick Place]?
  [Water Tower]?
  [Lincoln Park]?
  [Drake Hotel]?
  [Chicago River]?

Colleges

  [Depaul University]?
  [Loyola University]?
  [Northwestern University]? (in Evanston, suburb of of Chicago)
  [Roosevelt University]?
  University of Chicago
  [University of Illinois-Chicago]?

Museums

  [Adler Planetarium]?
  [Art Institute of Chicago]?
  [Field Museum of Natural History]?
  [Museum of Contemporary Art]?
  [Shedd Aquarium and Oceanarium]?
  [Museum of Science and Industry]? 

Sports

  Chicago Bears (American football) (Play at [Soldier Field]?)
  [Chicago Bulls]? (Basketball)
  Chicago Cubs (Baseball)(Play at [Wrigley Field]?)
  [Chicago Fire]?  (Soccer/Football)
  Chicago White Sox (Baseball) (Play at [Comiskey Park]?)

Nicknames:

"The Windy City" (inspired by the speechmaking proclivities of its politicians more than by its prevailing weather conditions);

"Second City" (so called because it was, for many years, the second-largest city in the United States, and also because of its rebirth after the [Great Chicago Fire]? of 1871);

"City of Big Shoulders"; and

"Hog-Butcher To The World" (from a [Carl Sandburg]? poem).

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