Chicago has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues, including two Major League Baseball teams. Other notable shows include CBS's The Good Wife and Mike and Molly. At nearly 10 million people, the metropolitan area is the third most populous in the United States. Washington's first term in office directed attention to poor and previously neglected minority neighborhoods. Civil and criminal law cases are heard in the Cook County Circuit Court of the State of Illinois court system, or in the Northern District of Illinois, in the federal system. In 1885, the first steel-framed high-rise building, the Home Insurance Building, rose in the city as Chicago ushered in the skyscraper era,[59] which would then be followed by many other cities around the world. [127][128], A popular tourist activity is to take an architecture boat tour along the Chicago River.[129]. [275] Violent crime rates vary significantly by area of the city, with more economically developed areas having low rates, but other sections have much higher rates of crime. [85] Structural changes in industry, such as globalization and job outsourcing, caused heavy job losses for lower-skilled workers. [61][62], Labor conflicts followed the industrial boom and the rapid expansion of the labor pool, including the Haymarket affair on May 4, 1886, and in 1894 the Pullman Strike. The two teams have faced each other in a World Series only once: in 1906, when the White Sox, known as the "Hitless Wonders," defeated the Cubs, 4–2. Chicago has a distinctive fine art tradition. As of 2018[update], Windy City Live is Chicago's only daytime talk show, which is hosted by Val Warner and Ryan Chiaverini at ABC7 Studios with a live weekday audience. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn. [286] Chicago ended 2013 with 415 murders, the lowest number of murders since 1965, and overall crime rates dropped by 16 percent. 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Kortmann, Bernd, Kate Burridge, Rajend Mesthrie, Edgar W. Schneider and Clive Upton (eds). In 1994, the United States hosted a successful FIFA World Cup with games played at Soldier Field. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $670.5 billion according to September 2017 estimates. When did organ music become associated with baseball? [326] CREATE, the Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency Program, comprises about 70 programs, including crossovers, overpasses and underpasses, that intend to significantly improve the speed of freight movements in the Chicago area.[327]. It includes Rush University Medical Center, ranked as the second best hospital in the Chicago metropolitan area by U.S. News & World Report for 2014–16, the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, Jesse Brown VA Hospital, and John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, one of the busiest trauma centers in the nation.[337]. The Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL) began play in 1926, and are one of the "Original Six" teams of the NHL. Grant Park holds Millennium Park, Buckingham Fountain (1927), and the Art Institute of Chicago. [105] The Illinois Department of Tourism defines Chicagoland as Cook County without the city of Chicago, and only Lake, DuPage, Kane, and Will counties. This was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn by the British and their native allies. [197], Manufacturing, printing, publishing and food processing also play major roles in the city's economy. 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