By the 1960s, white residents in several neighborhoods left the city for the suburban areas – in many American cities, a process known as white flight – as Blacks continued to move beyond the Black Belt. Chicago is famous for its outdoor public art with donors establishing funding for such art as far back as Benjamin Ferguson's 1905 trust. We got to be free (background: come on now) The Willis Tower (formerly named Sears Tower) is a popular destination for tourists. Two major daily newspapers are published in Chicago: the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, with the Tribune having the larger circulation. Chicago is one of the largest hubs of passenger rail service in the nation. Yeah, let's go live out there [297], Chicago high school rankings are determined by the average test scores on state achievement tests. ... earth And givin' Talkin 'bout the natural things we've had since birth That's lovin' Well I'm talkin' 'bout a walk in the country Mother nature's sweet charm The smell of her perfume As we walk arm in arm Let me tell you now I do love you I do love you I do love you Well it's a beautiful day And I'm on my way Ooh [100], When Chicago was founded in 1837, most of the early building was around the mouth of the Chicago River, as can be seen on a map of the city's original 58 blocks. In the 1980s and 90s, the city was the global center for house and industrial music, two forms of music created in Chicago, as well as being popular for alternative rock, punk, and new wave. Dutch Wheels, a world renowned company that manufactures ferris wheels, was selected to design the new wheel. Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. In a normal summer, temperatures reach at least 90 °F (32 °C) on as many as 23 days, with lakefront locations staying cooler when winds blow off the lake. While the genre was pioneered by Throbbing Gristle in the late 70s, the genre was largely started in the United Kingdom, with the Chicago-based record label Wax Trax! It also contains the University of Chicago, ranked one of the world's top ten universities,[211] and the Museum of Science and Industry. Tourists are able to look straight down. Chicago is served by O'Hare International Airport, the world's busiest airport measured by airline operations,[329] on the far Northwest Side, and Midway International Airport on the Southwest Side. The American Medical Association, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, American Osteopathic Association, American Dental Association, Academy of General Dentistry, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, American College of Surgeons, American Society for Clinical Pathology, American College of Healthcare Executives, the American Hospital Association and Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association are all based in Chicago. Please note: as of June 19, PDF daily reports will only be produced Monday through Friday. André Velloso - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Come on people Windy City, Chi-Town, City of the Big Shoulders, ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Chicago has also been the setting of a number of television shows, including the situation comedies Perfect Strangers and its spinoff Family Matters, Married... with Children, Punky Brewster, Kenan & Kel, Still Standing, The League, The Bob Newhart Show, and Shake It Up. [67][68] In 1883, Chicago's railway managers needed a general time convention, so they developed the standardized system of North American time zones. I do love you [217] These visitors contributed more than US$13.7 billion to Chicago's economy. Well-known chefs who have had restaurants in Chicago include: Charlie Trotter, Rick Tramonto, Grant Achatz, and Rick Bayless. The aldermanic, mayoral, and other city offices are filled through nonpartisan elections with runoffs as needed. Grant Park holds Millennium Park, Buckingham Fountain (1927), and the Art Institute of Chicago. Today, the Chicago Park District consists of more than 570 parks with over 8,000 acres (3,200 ha) of municipal parkland. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, the second-most-populous county in the US, with a small portion of the northwest side of the city extending into DuPage County near O'Hare Airport. [159] To these ethnic groups, the basis of the city's industrial working class, were added an additional influx of African Americans from the American South—with Chicago's black population doubling between 1910 and 1920 and doubling again between 1920 and 1930. [14] The region also has the largest number of federal highways and is the nation's railroad hub. A number of statues also honor recent local heroes such as Michael Jordan (by Amrany and Rotblatt-Amrany), Stan Mikita, and Bobby Hull outside of the United Center; Harry Caray (by Amrany and Cella) outside Wrigley field, Jack Brickhouse (by McKenna) next to the WGN studios, and Irv Kupcinet at the Wabash Avenue Bridge. It becomes so clear At least three short periods in the history of Chicago have had a lasting influence on American literature. [313], The city of Chicago has a higher than average percentage of households without a car. The entertainment and cultural magazine Time Out Chicago and GRAB magazine are also published in the city, as well as local music magazine Chicago Innerview. "New York, Philadelphia, and other northern cities: phonology". The central element of the Port District, Calumet Harbor, is maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Within sixty years of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the population went from about 300,000 to over 3 million,[158] and reached its highest ever recorded population of 3.6 million for the 1950 census.