Chicago

Chicago (i/ʃˈkɑːɡ/ or /ʃˈkɔːɡ/) is the third most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois and the Midwest. The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, has nearly 10 million people and is the third-largest in the U.S. Chicago is the seat of Cook County.

Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century. The city is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation: O'Hare International Airport is the busiest airport in the world when measured by aircraft traffic; it also has the largest number of U.S. highways and rail road freight. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranked seventh in the world in the 2014 Global Cities Index.As of 2014, Chicago had the third largest gross metropolitan product in the United States at US$610.5 billion.

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Nominations Open for American Marketing Association Chicago’s 2024 'Marketer of the Year' Award

ACCESSWIRE 16 May 2024
The award was launched in 2022 to recognize the wide range of talent in Chicago's marketing industry, and garner additional awareness for marketing as a driver of business growth and success ... For more information on the award or to learn more about the AMA Chicago chapter, visit AMAChicago.org ... Visit amachicago.org to learn more and join....
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How we’re building accessibility into our Chromebooks around the world

Google Blog 16 May 2024
30 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teachers of students with diverse learning needs recently participated in an educational pilot program funded by Google ... The pilot’s success allowed us to scale the effort in Chicago, with the goal of building teacher capacity to make computer science learning fun, engaging and accessible to everyone....
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Community colleges offer clean energy training as climate-related jobs expand across America

Telegraph Herald 16 May 2024
DANVILLE, Ill. — On the south side of Chicago, students learn to work on Rivian electric pickup trucks and SUVs through a new technician program at Olive-Harvey College ... ....
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Community colleges offer clean energy training as jobs grow

TimesDaily 16 May 2024
DANVILLE, Illinois (AP) — On the south side of Chicago, students learn to work on Rivian electric pickup trucks and SUVs through a new technician program at Olive-Harvey College ... ....
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Kedjidjian Leaving Dist. 34 For Communications Post At North Cook Regional Office Of Education

Journal Online Chicago 16 May 2024
Among those travels brought her to moderate a panel at a national symposium in ChicagoK-12 COVID-19 Response Across the Nation. What Worked, What We Learned, and What’s Next” in November 2022, ... What Worked, What We Learned, and What’s Next” symposium in Downtown Chicago on Nov....
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Dolton Trustee Andrew Holmes fired as crisis responder after sex assault allegations

Chicago Sun-Times 16 May 2024
Andrew Holmes was fired as a crisis responder for the group Chicago Survivors ... Holmes was terminated from Chicago Survivors in April when the group said it learned of the allegations detailed in a lawsuit filed that month ... Holmes is well known as a victim advocate in Chicago and was a frequent speaker on local TV newscasts until the lawsuit....
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A Chicago teen entered college at 10. At 17, she earned a doctorate from Arizona State

NBC Bay Area 16 May 2024
Dorothy Jean Tillman II’s participation in Arizona State University’s May 6 commencement was the latest step on a higher-education journey the Chicago teen started when she took her first college course at age 10 ... Tillman, called “Dorothy Jeanius” by family and friends, is the granddaughter of former Chicago Alderwoman Dorothy Tillman....
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Ohio State football game vs. Northwestern will be played at Wrigley Field

The Columbus Dispatch 15 May 2024
16 football game against Northwestern at Wrigley Field, The Dispatch has learned. And Northwestern is informing some of its season-ticket holders that the game will be played at the Chicago Cubs’ stadium ... in a south Chicago suburb....
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Chicago teen entered college at 10. At 17, she earned doctorate from Arizona State

Canoe 15 May 2024
CHICAGO — Dorothy Jean Tillman II’s participation in Arizona State University’s May 6 commencement was the latest step on a higher-education journey the Chicago teen started when she took her first college course at age 10.Advertisement 2 ... Chicago teen entered college at 10....
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At 10, she started college. At 17, she has her doctorate

Penn Live 15 May 2024
CHICAGO (AP) — Dorothy Jean Tillman II’s participation in Arizona State University’s May 6 commencement was the latest step on a higher-education journey the Chicago teen started when she took her first college course at age 10 ... of former Chicago Alderwoman Dorothy Tillman....
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Lawmakers, Chicagoans' views on CPS are worth your attention

Chicago Sun-Times 15 May 2024
... mean anything," that they don't measure intangibles like creativity, that there is racial and class bias in standardized tests, and that poverty and inequality — especially in Chicago, where Black students have been shortchanged for decades — greatly affect learning....
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Duke basketball’s Jared McCain breaks down strengths, weaknesses at NBA Draft Combine

BlueRidgeNow 15 May 2024
Video. Duke basketball's Jared McCain lights up NCAA Tournament ... Duke basketball’s Jared McCain is leaning into his strengths and learning more about his weaknesses this week at the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago ... “My best skill set, I think the most translatable, is the shooting ... “Other than that, I feel like a winner. Everywhere I’ve went, I’ve won ... ...
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