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2. City News Bureau of Chicago - Wikipedia

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   City News Bureau of Chicago ( CNB ), or City Press (1890–2005), [ 1] was a news bureau that served as one of the first cooperative news agencies in the United States. It was founded in 1890 by the newspapers of Chicago to provide a common source of local and breaking news and also used by them as a training ground for new reporters, described ...

3. Nielsen Media Research - Wikipedia

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   Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers. Headquartered in New York City, it is best known for the Nielsen ratings , an audience measurement system of television viewership that for years has been the deciding ...

4. History of Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history. Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe, especially Jews, Poles, and Italians, along with many smaller groups.

5. Stock market today: US stocks tick higher as traders await ...

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   Revised jobs data from April 2023 to March 2024 is due out Wednesday morning. US stocks edged higher on Wednesday as traders looked forward to the release of the Fed's meeting minutes and revised ...

6. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom - Wikipedia

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   Civil rights movement Washington D.C. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington, [ 1 ][ 2 ] was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. [ 3 ] The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.

7. Chicago metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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   The Chicago metropolitan area, also referred to as the Greater Chicago Area and Chicagoland, is the largest metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the Midwest, containing the City of Chicago along with its surrounding suburbs and satellite cities. Encompassing 10,286 square mi (28,120 km 2), the metropolitan area ...