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The 66 pages that link to Chicago, each with the reason it gives.

• World's Columbian ExpositionRelated: Chicago won the right to host the exposition in a contest with New York.

• Kanye WestRelated: West grew up in Chicago, whose music scene shaped his early artistic identity.

• Theodore DreiserRelated: Dreiser worked as a journalist in Chicago, a city that became central to his fiction.

• Ludwig Mies van der RoheRelated: After emigrating in 1938, he built, taught, and developed his American practice there.

• Harrison FordRelated: Ford was born and raised in the Chicago area before pursuing acting.

• Lorraine HansberryRelated: Hansberry grew up in Chicago, whose neighborhoods informed A Raisin in the Sun.

• Nat King ColeRelated: Cole grew up in Chicago, where its music scene shaped his early career.

• Chicago TribuneRelated: The newspaper emerged in Chicago and has long covered the city’s civic life.

• Saul BellowRelated: Bellow grew up in Chicago, whose neighborhoods became central to his imaginative geography.

• Edgar Rice BurroughsRelated: Burroughs was born in Chicago and began his writing career there.

• Gordon ParksRelated: Parks developed as a photographer there before gaining national assignments.

• Isiah ThomasRelated: Thomas grew up on Chicago's West Side and developed his game in the city's basketball culture.

• Thomas A. DorseyRelated: Dorsey developed his gospel career amid Chicago’s vibrant Black church and music communities.

• Cyrus McCormickRelated: McCormick moved production there, linking reaper manufacturing to a growing agricultural market.

• Edgar Lee MastersRelated: Masters practiced law there and observed the social world beyond his rural Illinois upbringing.

• Henry DargerRelated: Darger lived and worked in Chicago, whose institutions and streets framed his everyday world.

• Jason RobardsRelated: Robards was born there in 1922.

• Miles FranklinRelated: Her years in Chicago broadened her experience beyond Australia and included wartime service.

• Renée ZellwegerRelated: Zellweger played Roxie Hart in the film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

• Sam CookeRelated: Cooke spent formative years in Chicago, where his family joined the city’s gospel community.

• The Man with the Golden ArmRelated: The film locates Frankie’s precarious return to civilian life in a Chicago neighborhood.

• Apichatpong WeerasethakulRelated: He studied architecture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

• William GoldmanRelated: Goldman was born and raised in the Chicago area.

• Allan PinkertonRelated: Pinkerton settled there and opened his detective agency.

• Frankie KnucklesRelated: Knuckles’s work made Chicago a foundational place in the history of house music.

• Loie FullerRelated: Fuller was born near Chicago and began performing in the United States.

• Redd FoxxRelated: Foxx was born and raised in Chicago before pursuing performance.

• The Adventures of Augie MarchRelated: Its neighborhoods, workplaces, and social divisions anchor Augie’s early life.

• Curtis MayfieldRelated: Mayfield grew up and developed his musical career in Chicago.

• Johnny TorrioRelated: Torrio relocated there and built the criminal network that defined his career.

• Nella LarsenRelated: Larsen’s Chicago origins preceded the Harlem setting most associated with her literary career.

• Sidney SheldonRelated: Sheldon was born in Chicago in 1917.

• Alvah Curtis RoebuckRelated: The company’s Chicago base linked its mail-order operations to a major transport and wholesale hub.

• Colleen MooreRelated: Moore was born in Port Huron, Michigan, but grew up largely in Chicago.

• Dinah WashingtonRelated: Washington grew up and began performing professionally in Chicago’s music scene.

• Nelson AlgrenRelated: Its neighborhoods and street life provide the setting and social world of much of Algren’s fiction.

• Anish KapoorRelated: Cloud Gate became a defining public artwork in Millennium Park and a familiar civic image.

• Herman LammRelated: Chicago was a major setting for Lamm’s criminal activity.

• James L. KraftRelated: Kraft began selling cheese from a horse-drawn wagon in Chicago.

• Jesse JacksonRelated: Jackson built his organizations and political base in Chicago.

• Kim NovakRelated: Novak was born there in 1933 as Marilyn Pauline Novak.

• Michael FlatleyRelated: Flatley was born and raised in Chicago in an Irish American family.

• No WomanRelated: Whitney formed and recorded in Chicago, where the song’s sound took shape.

• Sono OsatoRelated: Osato later settled in Chicago, where she raised her family and became active in civic life.