Throughout its history, Chicago has had ambitions to be a great city, and nowhere is this more evident than in its world-beating classical music scene.
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Whether portraying a criminal underworld or a high–school utopia, Chicago always looks right at home on the silver screen.
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The devastation of the Great Chicago Fire gave the city a chance for a new life, and some of the most innovative structures the world had ever known emerged from the ashes.
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There’s something about this cloud-scraping city – its blend of high culture and earthy pleasures – that bewitches.
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Everyone knows Chicago has the world's biggest free blues fest, but what of the spots that have fallen off the usual itinerary, the ones that require imagination to appreciate them?
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