Definitions for Chicago
ʃɪˈkɑ goʊ, -ˈkɔ-chica·go

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1. Chicago, Windy Citynoun

   largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan

2. Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stopsnoun

   a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

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1. Chicagonoun

   A large city located on Lake Michigan in northeastern Illinois, USA.

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1. Chicago

   Chicago (often listed as "Chicago / We Can Change the World") is a song written by Graham Nash for his solo debut album Songs for Beginners. As a single, it reached number 35 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and 29 on the Cash Box Top 100. It is his highest charting single. In Canada, "Chicago" peaked at number 19. The song also made the Dutch Charts in 1971, peaking at number 5.

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1. chicago

   Chicago is the third largest city in the United States, located in the state of Illinois. It is known for its vibrant arts scene, numerous cultural attractions, historic architecture, significant sports teams, and culinary delights - particularly its deep dish pizza and Chicago-style hot dogs. The city is also considered an international hub for finance, commerce, technology, and transportation, with one of the largest and busiest airports in the world, O'Hare International Airport. The city's skyline is marked by high-rise buildings and iconic landmarks like the Willis Tower, Navy Pier, and the "Bean" (officially named "Cloud Gate") in Millennium Park.

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1. Chicago

   Chicago, a city in the U.S. state of Illinois, is the third most populous city in the United States and the most populous city in the American Midwest, with approximately 2.7 million residents. Its metropolitan area, which extends into Indiana and Wisconsin, is the third-largest in the United States, after those of New York City and Los Angeles, with an estimated 9.8 million people. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion of the city limits also extends into DuPage County. Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. Today, Chicago is listed as an alpha+ global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the world in the 2012 Global Cities Index. The city is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, telecommunications, and transportation, with O'Hare International Airport being the second-busiest airport in the world in terms of traffic movements. In 2008, Chicago hosted 45.6 million international and domestic visitors. Among metropolitan areas, Chicago has the fourth-largest gross domestic product in the world, just behind Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles, and ranking ahead of London and Paris. Chicago is one of the most important Worldwide Centers of Commerce and trade.

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1. Chicago

   the metropolis of Illinois, in the NE. of the State, on the SW. shore of Lake Michigan, is the second city in the Union; its unparalleled growth, dating only from 1837—in 1832 a mere log-fort, and now covering an area of 180 sq. m., being 21 m. in length and 10 m. in breadth—is due to its matchless facilities for communication. Situated in the heart of the continent, a third of the United States railway system centres in it, and it communicates with all Canada, and with the ocean by the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River; laid out with absolute regularity, it has many magnificent buildings, enormously tall office "sky-scrapers," and an unrivalled system of parks and avenues; there are a university, medical, commercial, and theological colleges, an art institute, libraries, and observatory; it suffered severely from fire in 1871 and 1874; it is the greatest grain and pork market in the world, and its manufactures include almost every variety of production; the population is a mixture of all European peoples; native-born Americans are a small minority, outnumbered by the Germans and almost equalled by the Irish.

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1. chicago

   Song lyrics by chicago -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by chicago on the Lyrics.com website.

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1. Chicago

   Indian for “wild onion.”

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1. Alex

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Chicago in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Chicago in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Chicago in a Sentence

1. Mayor Rahm Emanuel:

   To all those who are, after Tuesday’s election, very nervous and filled with anxiety as we’ve spoken to, you are safe in Chicago, you are secure in Chicago and you are supported in Chicago, chicago will always be a sanctuary city.

2. Jean Nathan Miller:

   The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago ... Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation.

3. Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad:

   Frank I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or be able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact I bought her a harp for christmas. She asked me what it was.

4. Henri Poincare:

   Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

5. Dave Barry:

   Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

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