Flag of Chicago
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The flag of Chicago consists of two light blue horizontal bars, or stripes, on a field of white, each bar one-sixth the height of the full flag, and placed slightly less than one-sixth of the way from the top and bottom. 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.
Kitty Kelly holding Flag of Chicago from the Chicago Tribune, 1921. Note the two stars on the flag at the time.
City of Chicago Flag, alongside the US and Illinois State Flags at Navy Pier
Sketches for the flag from a contest from 1892. This design ultimately became used in the municipal device.
Twenty-three other icons that were commissioned representing different city departments could be placed on the flag for that department.
Chicago
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Chicago 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 in the 2020 census, it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the seat of Cook County, the second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents.
Image: Chicago Skyline in September 2023 (cropped)
Image: Chicago River ferry
Image: Pink Line at State & Lake
Image: Wrigley Field in line with home plate