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  2. Wacker Drive - Wikipedia

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    1926. Wacker Driveis a major multilevel streetin Chicago, Illinois, running along the south side of the main branch and the east side of the south branch of the Chicago Riverin the Loop.[2] The vast majority of the street is double-decked; the upper level is intended for local traffic, and the lower level for through-traffic and trucks serving ...

  3. Flag of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Four bright red stars, with six sharp points each, are set side by side, close together, in the middle third of the flag's surface. [ 1] Chicago is a city in Illinois, United States. Its flag was adopted in 1917 after the design by Wallace Rice won a City Council sponsored competition. It initially had two stars until 1933, when a third was added.

  4. Wrigley Building - Wikipedia

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    The Wrigley Building is a skyscraper located at 400–410 North Michigan Avenue on Chicago's Near North Side. It is located on the Magnificent Mile directly across Michigan Avenue from the Tribune Tower. Its two towers in an elaborate style were built between 1920 and 1924 to house the corporate headquarters of the Wrigley Company.

  5. Near North Side, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Near North Side, Chicago. /  41.90000°N 87.63444°W  / 41.90000; -87.63444. The Near North Side is the eighth of Chicago's 77 community areas. It is the northernmost of the three areas that constitute central Chicago, the others being the Loop and the Near South Side. The community area is located north and east of the Chicago River.

  6. List of neighborhoods in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chicago's Chinatown. St. Simeon Mirotočivi, a Serbian Orthodox church located in East Side. Greektown. Fiesta Boricua on Paseo Boricua in Humboldt Park. The Robie House in Hyde Park is a Frank Lloyd Wright design. The Gateway Theatre 's Solidarity Tower in Jefferson Park is a replica of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

  7. North Side Gang - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Outfit and Genna crime family. The North Side Gang, also known as the North Side Mob, was an Irish-American criminal organization within Chicago during the Prohibition era from the early 1920s to the mid-1930s. It was the principal rival of the South Side Gang, also known as the Chicago Outfit, the crime syndicate of Italian-Americans ...

  8. Flags of the U.S. states and territories - Wikipedia

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    Most U.S. state flags were designed and adopted between 1893 and World War I. [ 1] The most recently adopted state flag is that of Minnesota, adopted on May 11, 2024; while the most recently adopted territorial flag is that of the Northern Mariana Islands, adopted on July 1, 1985. The flag of the District of Columbia was adopted in 1938.

  9. Shooting on Chicago's West Side leaves one dead, two ... - AOL

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    Fox local. Cody King. July 14, 2024 at 5:30 PM. CHICAGO - A shooting on the city's West Side has left one man dead and two others hospitalized, according to Chicago police. The incident happened ...