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Chicago
City (pop., 1996: 2,722,000), NE Illinois. Located on Lake Michigan, with the Chicago River flowing through it, Chicago has extensive port facilities. In the 17th cent. the name was associated with a portage between the Des Plaines and Chicago rivers connecting the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes with the Mississippi River. Ft. Dearborn was built in 1803 on a tract acquired from Indians. It expanded rapidly after the completion of the Illinois and Michigan Canal (1848), which connected the Chicago and Mississippi rivers, and also became the nation's chief rail center. Rebuilt quickly after a hugely destructive fire in 1871, it was the site of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. It was the birthplace of the steel-frame skyscraper in the late 19th cent., and it boasts designs by eminent architects, incl. L. Sullivan, F. L. Wright, and L. Mies van der Rohe. Nuclear scientists produced the first nuclear chain reaction at the Univ. of Chicago in 1942. After World War II the city underwent another building boom, but as in other large cities its population subsequently dropped as its suburbs grew. The 3d largest U.S. city, it is a major industrial, commercial, and transportation center and is the site of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. Several museums and the Art Institute of Chicago are located there.
chicken
One of the most widely domesticated poultry species (Gallus gallus), raised worldwide for its meat and eggs. Descended from the wild red jungle fowl of India, chickens have been domesticated for at least 4,000 years. Not until the 19th cent. did chicken meat and eggs become mass-production commodities. Modern high-volume poultry farms, with rows of cages stacked indoors for control of heat, light, and humidity, began to proliferate in Britain c.1920 and in the U.S. after World War II (see factory farming). Females are raised for meat and eggs; immature males are castrated to become meat birds called capons. See also praire chicken.
chicory
Blue-flowered perennial plant (Cichorium intybus) of the composite family. Native to Europe, it was introduced to the U.S. late in the 19th cent. Chicory has a long, fleshy taproot; a rigid, branching, hairy stem; and lobed, toothed leaves, similar in appearance to dandelion leaves, around the base. Both roots and leaves are edible. The roots are also used as a flavoring in or substitute for coffee. The plant is also grown as a fodder or herbage crop for cattle.
Quiche
Indian population of the Guatemalan highlands, largest of all ethnic groups speaking a Mayan language. The Quiche Mayas had an advanced civilization in pre-Columbian times. Records of their history and mythology are preserved in the Popol Vuh. Traditional Quiche are agricultural. Their homes are thatched huts, and they practice weaving and pottery. Nominally Roman Catholic, they conduct pagan rituals as well. Many were ...
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