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?ikago şehri
şikago

Yaklaşık 1830 yılında, aile anayurdu Almanya'dan Şikago'ya taşındı. - The family moved from their native Germany to Chicago around the year 1830.

Mike'ın Şikago'da yaşayan bir arkadaşı var. - Mike has a friend who lives in Chicago.

{i} Chicago
(isim) Chicago
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university of chicago
Chicago Üniversitesi
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A large city located on Lake Michigan in northeastern Illinois, USA
A large city in Illinois, USA
American artist best known for The Dinner Party (1979), a ceramic and needlepoint project depicting the social history of women in the Western world. the third largest city in the US. It is in the state of Illinois, on the southwest shore of Lake Michigan, and is an important industrial and business centre. Chicago is sometimes called "the Windy City". City (pop., 2000: 2,896,016), northeastern Illinois, U.S. Located on Lake Michigan and the Chicago River, Chicago has extensive port facilities. In the 17th century the name was associated with a portage between the Des Plaines and Chicago rivers connecting the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes with the Mississippi River. Fort Dearborn was built in 1803 on a tract acquired from Indians. It expanded rapidly after the completion of the Illinois and Michigan Canal (1848), which connected the Chicago and Mississippi rivers, and also became the nation's chief rail centre. Rebuilt quickly after a hugely destructive fire in 1871, it was the site of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. It was the birthplace of the steel-frame skyscraper in the late 19th century, and it boasts designs by eminent architects, including Louis H. Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Nuclear scientists produced the first nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago in 1942. After World War II the city underwent another building boom, but, as in other large cities, its population subsequently dropped as its suburbs grew. The third largest U.S. city, it is a major industrial, commercial, and transportation centre and is the site of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. Several museums and the Art Institute of Chicago are located there. Art Ensemble of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago Chicago and North Western Transportation Co. Chicago literary renaissance Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Chicago River Chicago School Chicago Tribune Chicago Judy Chicago University of
{i} largest city in the state of Illinois (USA); short river in Chicago (USA); 1927 movie produced by Cecil B. DeMille; name of a U.S. musical first performed in 1975; 2002 U.S.A. movie (starred Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rene Zellweger and Richard Gere) based on the musical; name of rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago (Illinois, USA); name of a poker game which is one of the most popular card games in Sweden
largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan

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Chicago Protocol
A method for the testing of appliances that perform any kind of combustion (household heaters, stoves, etc.) for carbon monoxide emissions
Chicago Board of Trade
an important market in Chicago, US, in which future contracts for the delivery of commodities are bought and sold
Chicago Bulls
{i} professional basketball team based in Chicago which is an NBA basketball team
Chicago Cubs
leading American professional baseball team from Chicago (Illinois)
Chicago Heights
A city of northeast Illinois south of Chicago. It is an industrial center. Population: 33,072
Chicago Race Riot of 1919
Most severe of about 25 race riots throughout the U.S. in the summer after World War I. Racial friction was intensified by the migration of African Americans to the North. On Chicago's South Side, the African American population had increased in 10 years from 44,000 to 109,000. The riot was triggered by the death of an African American youth swimming in Lake Michigan near a beach reserved for whites; he was stoned and he shortly drowned. When police refused to arrest the white man allegedly responsible, fighting broke out between gangs of African Americans and whites. Violence spread throughout the city, unchecked by the state militia. After 13 days, 38 people were dead (23 African Americans, 15 whites), and 537 injured, and 1,000 African American families were made homeless
Chicago River
A river formed at Chicago by the junction of northern and southern branches that total about 55 km (34 mi) in length. It is an important link in the Illinois Waterway. River, northeastern Illinois, U.S. A small river, consisting of a northern and southern branch, it originally flowed through Chicago into Lake Michigan. After a severe storm in 1885 caused the river to empty large amounts of polluted water into the lake, its flow was reversed by constructing a canal in 1900, the building of which was considered a significant engineering feat. Now flowing inland, it is connected with the Des Plaines River by the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
Chicago School
A group of U.S. architects of the late 19th to early 20th century, including William Le Baron Jenney and Louis Sullivan, noted for their utilitarian designs and their use of steel framing as a skeleton for multistory buildings. Group of architects and engineers who in the 1890s exploited the twin developments of structural steel framing and the electrified elevator, paving the way for the ubiquitous modern-day skyscraper. Their work earned Chicago a reputation as the "birthplace of modern architecture." Among the school's members were Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, and John Wellborn Root (1850-91)
Chicago Seven
seven radicals tried in 1969-1970 for inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention (included major counterculture leaders, such as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin)
Chicago Sun Times
one of the largest daily newspapers in the United States (published in Chicago, Illinois)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
a US orchestra (=a large group of musicians) based in Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Tribune
one of two major daily newspapers for the Chicago metropolitan area (USA)
Chicago Tribune
a daily newspaper produced in Chicago and also sold in other parts of the US. It is famous for the high quality of its writing and reporting. Daily newspaper published in Chicago. The Tribune is one of the leading U.S. newspapers and long has been the dominant voice of the Midwest. Founded in 1847, it was bought in 1855 by six partners, including Joseph Medill (1823-99), who made the paper successful and increased its stature while promulgating his generally liberal views. He bought a controlling interest in 1874 and was publisher until his death. During Robert McCormick's tenure (1914-55), the paper achieved the largest circulation among U.S. standard-sized newspapers and led the world in newspaper advertising revenue. The Tribune also reflected his nationalist-isolationist views, but its editorial positions moderated after his death. It subsequently became the flagship of the Tribune Company, which has holdings in broadcasting, cable TV, publishing, and other media
Chicago and North Western Transportation Co
Former U.S. railroad company. It was created when employees of the financially troubled Chicago and North Western Railway Co. purchased its assets in 1972. The initial company, founded in 1859, evolved from the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, which had been the first railroad to enter Chicago (1848). Employees ceased to hold a majority of the company's stock in 1983. The system served an 11-state region west of Lake Michigan, with principal routes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska. It was purchased by Union Pacific in 1995
Chicago literary renaissance
Flourishing of literary activity in Chicago 1912-25. Its leading writers Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee Masters, and Carl Sandburg realistically depicted the contemporary urban environment, condemning the loss of traditional rural values in the increasingly industrialized and materialistic American society. Associated with the period were the Little Theatre, an outlet for young playwrights; the Little Room, a literary group; and magazines such as The Dial, Poetry, and The Little Review. The renaissance also encompassed a revitalization of newspaper journalism as a literary medium
Chicago overcoat
coffin (Slang)
Art Ensemble of Chicago
U.S. jazz ensemble. The group evolved from the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), an experimental collective. Saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman, trumpeter Lester Bowie, bassist Malachi Favors, and drummer Don Moye formed the group in 1969, combining freely changing tempos, dynamics, and textures with an often comic theatricality of presentation. Their diversity of inspiration is expressed by their motto, "Great Black Music: Ancient to the Future
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum in Chicago that houses European, American, Asian, African, and pre-Columbian art. It was established in 1866 as the Chicago Academy of Design and took its current name in 1882. In 1893 it moved to its present building, designed by the architectural firm of Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge for the World's Columbian Exposition, on Michigan Avenue. The Art Institute, which comprises both a museum and a school, is noted for its extensive collections of 19th-century French painting (Impressionist works and the work of Claude Monet in particular) and 20th-century European and American painting. Among its best-known works are Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on La Grand Jatte 1884 (1884-86), Grant Wood's American Gothic (1930), and Edward Hopper's Nighthawks (1942)
Chicagoan
{i} native or resident of Chicago (USA)
Chicagoan
{s} of or pertaining to Chicago (USA)
Judy Chicago
orig. Judy Cohen born July 20, 1939, Chicago, Ill., U.S. U.S. multimedia artist. She studied at UCLA, and in 1970 she adopted the name of her hometown. Motivated by perceived discrimination in the art world and alienation from canonical art traditions, she developed "environments" featuring feminine imagery. Her most notable work, The Dinner Party (1974-79), is a triangular table with place settings for 39 important women, each represented by personalized ceramic plates and table runners embellished with embroidery styles typical of their eras. This installation established her reputation as a leader in feminist art. In 1973 she cofounded the Feminist Studio Workshop and Woman's Building in Los Angeles
University of Chicago
Independent university in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. It was founded in 1890 with an endowment from John D. Rockefeller. William Rainey Harper, its first president (1891-1906), did much to establish its reputation, and under Robert M. Hutchins (1929-51) the university came to be recognized for its broad liberal arts curriculum. The world's first department of sociology was established there in 1892 under Robert E. Park. In 1942 it was the site of the first controlled self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, under the direction of Enrico Fermi. Other notable achievements include the development of carbon-14 dating and the isolation of plutonium. More than 70 scholars associated with the University of Chicago have been awarded Nobel Prizes in their fields. The university comprises an undergraduate college, several professional schools, and centres for advanced research, including the Oriental Institute (Middle Eastern studies), Yerkes Observatory, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the Center for Policy Study. The university operates the Argonne National Laboratory
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largest city in the state of Illinois (USA)
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