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Original to the 1917 flag: This star stands for the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Its six points symbolize transportation, labor, commerce, finance, populousness, and salubrity (health). [1] [2] Original to the 1917 flag: This star symbolizes the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Its six points represent the virtues of religion, education ...
The flag of Cook County, Illinois, nicknamed "I Will", consists of a light blue pall with a green border on a field of white. Six red stars with seven points each sit in a circle at the flag's hoist side, drawing cues from the city flag and other symbols of the county seat of Chicago and its in-county suburbs.
"Blowin' in from Chicago", 2005 – composer: Hank Hirsh; Six Perfections Music; Around and Back "Blue Line" – Local H "Blues for the South Side" – Ronnie Earl "Blues for the West Side" – Eddie Shaw "Boo’d Up" - Ella Mai "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" - Andrews Sisters "Boost Chicago" – composer: Armin P. Bauer
Barry Joseph Goldberg (December 25, 1941 – January 22, 2025) was an American blues and rock keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. Goldberg co-produced albums by Percy Sledge, Charlie Musselwhite, James Cotton, and the Textones, plus Bob Dylan's version of Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready".
The Chicago municipal flag shall be white, with two blue bars, each taking up a sixth of its space, and set a little less than one-sixth of the way from the top and bottom of the flag, respectively. There shall be two bright red stars with sharp points, six in number, set side by side, close together, next the staff in the middle third of the ...
To return to the six-pointed stars in the Chicago municipal flag. By the terms of the competition under the rules laid down by the Chicago Flag Commission in 1917, the use of religious symbols, which included the cross, the star and crescent, and the two triangles, one reversed and superimposed, was barred, for obvious reasons. [1]
Consequently, the flag was adopted as a motif within the nascent Chicago punk scene and later became fashionable outside the milieu of music. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] John Kezdy is the older brother of bassist Pierre Kezdy who died in 2020 and was best known for playing in Strike Under , Bloodsport, Naked Raygun and Pegboy .
CHICAGO! Go! Yeah!" on the vinyl edition) is a track from Sufjan Stevens 2005 concept album Illinois, released on Asthmatic Kitty. The song tells the semi-autobiographical [1] story of a young man on a road trip, and his youthful idealism. The track is one of Stevens' most popular songs, and he usually ends his live shows with a version of this ...