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Chicago ( or ), officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7million residents, it is also the most populous city in both the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States. It is the county seat of Cook County. The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, has nearly 10 million people and is the third-largest in the U.S. Chicago has often been called a global architecture capital. Chicago is considered one of the most important business centers in the world.

Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which razed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild on the damage. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, leading Chicago to become among the five largest cities in the world by 1900. During this period Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the eventual creation of the steel-framed skyscraper.
1. How many people live in Chicago?
2. What is Chicagoland?
3. How many people live there?
4. What was early Chicago near?
5. What water bodies did the portage connect?
6. How many people had nowhere to live after the fire?
7. How many actual houses were ruined?
8. True or False: The population size never recovered from the disaster.
9. What movement started in Chicago?
10. What tall structure was invented there?
11. True or False: The Baroque school of architecture started there.
12. What School do we know started there?
13. Is Chicago the biggest city in the U.S.?
14. How many are bigger?
15. Which ones?
16. Is there a bigger city in Illinois?
17. What about in the Midwest?
18. Which county has its seat there?
19. What is Chicago formally called?
20. When did the fire happen?

Numbered answers:
1. over 2.7million
2. The Chicago metropolitan area
3. nearly 10 million
4. a portage
5. the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed
6. over 100,000
7. unknown
8. false
9. the City Beautiful Movement
10. steel-framed skyscraper
11. unknown
12. the Chicago School of architecture
13. no
14. Two
15. unknown
16. no
17. no
18. Cook County.
19. the City of Chicago
20. 1871

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Musician JJ Cale, whose songs "Cocaine" and "After Midnight" were made famous by Eric Clapton, died Friday night after suffering a heart attack, the president of his management agency said. His contemporaries considered him a legend, even if many fans weren't familiar with his name.

He was 74.

"JJ Cale was loved by fans worldwide for his completely unpretentious and beautiful music," said Mike Kappus, president of the Rosebud Agency. "He was loved even more dearly by all those he came in contact with as the most real and down-to-earth person we all knew."

'Cocaine's' Cale makes his own groove

Lynyrd Skynyrd made Cale's song "Call Me The Breeze" famous, and bands including Santana, The Allman Brothers, Johnny Cash, and many others covered his songs.

He won a Grammy for his 2006 album with Clapton, called "The Road to Escondido."

"He was incredibly humble and avoided the spotlight at all costs but will be missed by anyone touched by him directly or indirectly," Kappus said. "Luckily, his music lives on."

The singer-songwriter passed away at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, his official website said.

There were no immediate plans for funeral services, it said.

"We've lost a great artist and a great person," Clapton wrote on his Facebook page.

His official biography describes Cale as someone for whom music is all he's ever known.

"I remember when I made my first album, I was 32 or 33 years old and I thought I was way too old then," Cale said, according to his bio. "When I see myself doing this at 70, I go, 'What am I doing, I should be layin' down in a hammock.'"
1. Who passed away?
2. How old was he?
3. What was his line of work?
4. When did he die?
5. What did he die from?
6. Where did he die?
7. What city is that in?
8. Did he ever win any awards?
9. When?
10. With who?
11. What record won?
12. How old was he when he made his first record?
13. What other songs did he do with Clapton?

Numbered answers:
1. JJ Cale
2. 74
3. musician
4. unknown
5. heart attack
6. Scripps Memorial Hospital
7. La Jolla
8. Grammy
9. 2006
10. Clapton
11. "The Road to Escondido."
12. 32 or 33
13. Cocaine

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CHAPTER XXXIV

THE CONSUMMATION

It was hot outside in the noisy streets, but the Somasco Consolidated offices were quiet and cool when Alton entertained two of his friends there one afternoon. There is no special sanctity attached to a place of business in the West, and nobody who knew Alton would have been astonished to find plates of fruit upon the papers which littered his table, and a spirit lamp burning on the big empty stove. A very winsome young lady also sat in a lounge-chair, and Forel close by glanced at her with a most unbusinesslike twinkle in his eyes. Seaforth had been married recently, and his wife had called in to see, so she told Alton, that he was not working him too hard.

"You will give Mrs. Charley some tea," said Alton. "Your husband, madam, has been brought up well, but there was a time when I had real trouble in teaching him. Forel, you'll find some ice and soda yonder as well as the other things."

Nellie Seaforth laughed a little as she thrust the cup away. "No," she said; "I know where that tea comes from, and I would sooner have some ice and soda with out the other things. Have the strawberries gone up, Harry?"

Alton nodded. "That's a fact, and I am very glad," he said. "You see, we are sending out about a ton of them every day, and there are none to equal ours in the Dominion. Still, if Charley wasn't so lazy he'd give you some. Can't you find that ice, Forel? There was a big lump yesterday."
1. Whose wife stopped by the office?
2. Why is she there?
3. Who is his boss?
4. Where do they work?
5. Where is it located?
6. Is Alton a messy guy?
7. What time of day is it?
8. How's the weather?
9. How many people are at the office?
10. Does Nellie accept the drink she was offered?
11. What is it?
12. What does she want instead?
13. Who's looking for the ice?
14. Do they sell something at this business?
15. What?
16. Who does he feel he has better strawberries than?
17. Do they sell a lot?
18. How many daily?
19. How long ago was Seaforth's wedding?
20. How much do the berries cost?
Numbered answers:
1. Seaforth's
2. To see that he wasn't working too hard.
3. Alton
4. Somasco Consolidated
5. In the west
6. Yes
7. Afternoon
8. Hot
9. Alton, his two friends, and Forel.
10. No
11. Tea
12. Ice and soda
13. Forel
14. Yes
15. Strawberries
16. Anyone in the Dominion
17. Yes
18. About a ton
19. Recently
20. Unknown but they had gone up.