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Symbol Description Image Law [notes 1] [1] Adopted Amphibian: Eastern tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) 5 ILCS 460/85 2005 [2] Animal: White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) 5 ILCS 460/45 1982 [2] Artifact Pirogue: 5 ILCS 460/63 2017 [1] Bird: Northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 5 ILCS 460/10 1929 [2] Exercise Cycling: 5 ILCS 460/ ...
The symbol represents the north, south, and main branches of the Chicago River, and their confluence at Wolf Point. It was designed by Danish-born architect and civil engineer Alfred J. Råvad (Roewad). [3] Its earliest known appearance was in 1892 for a contest to design the city's flag held by the Chicago Tribune. [4]
Prosthechea cochleata is the national flower of Belize, where it is known as the black orchid. [53] Lycaste skinneri has a white variety (alba) that is the national flower of Guatemala, commonly known as Monja Blanca (White Nun). Panama's national flower is the Holy Ghost orchid (Peristeria elata), or 'the flor del Espiritu Santo'.
Chicago [a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, [9] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.
Caladenia catenata, commonly known as white caladenia, white fingers and lady's fingers, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. It is a ground orchid with a single hairy leaf and one or two white, sometimes pink flowers on a thin, sparsely-hairy stem.
Annual events include Illinois Craft Beer Week, [87] [88] the Festival of Barrel-Aged Beers (known as FOBAB), [89] [90] the Chicago Beer Festival, [91] and the Chicago Beer Classic. [ 92 ] [ 93 ] In the mid- to late-20th century, the most popular beer in Chicago was Old Style , a mass-produced lager that at the time was brewed by G. Heileman in ...
Visual arts of Chicago refers to paintings, prints, illustrations, textile art, sculpture, ceramics and other visual artworks produced in Chicago or by people with a connection to Chicago. Since World War II , Chicago visual art has had a strong individualistic streak, little influenced by outside fashions.
Chicago seal in 1895. In 1837, when Chicago was incorporated as a city, a new seal was drafted by Mayor William B. Ogden, Aldermen Josiah Goodhue and Daniel Pearsons.In the ordinance, the seal is described as "a shield (American) with a sheaf of wheat on its center; a ship in full sail on the right; a sleeping infant on the top; an Indian with bow and arrow on the left; and with the motto ...