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Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping
The Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping, also known as the Chibok kidnapping, was the 2014 abduction of 276 schoolgirls aged 12 to 17 by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria.
Chicago Board of Trade
The Chicago Board of Trade, or CBOT, is a Chicago-based futures and options exchange founded in 1848 as a cash grain market, part of CME Group since 2007.
Chicago Boys
The Chicago Boys were a group of Chilean economists, mostly Catholic University graduates trained in Chicago, who designed and ran Chile's free-market program under Pinochet from the mid-1970s until 1990.
Chicago City Council
The Chicago City Council is the legislative branch of Chicago, made up of the Mayor, the City Clerk, and 50 alderpersons elected from the city's 50 wards.
Chicago Cubs Radio Network
Chicago Cubs Radio Network: the station group airing Cubs games, flagship 670 The Score (WSCR-AM) and 104.3 FM simulcast since 2026, over 30 upper Midwest affiliates, Spanish on TUDN WPPN 106.7 HD2, after WGN (1950s-2014) and WBBM (2015) eras.
Chicago Daily News
Chicago Daily News, afternoon Chicago newspaper 1875-1978, the city's first penny paper, founded by Melville Stone, bought by Victor Lawson, later Field Enterprises; absorbed by the Sun-Times in 1978.
Chicago Fire Department
Chicago Fire Department (CFD), the City of Chicago's executive fire department: 4,500+ uniformed members, 98 firehouses, 97 engines, 61 trucks, 80 ALS ambulances, over 500,000 emergency calls yearly, founded as a paid force in 1858.
Chicago Gaylords
Chicago Gaylords (Almighty Gaylords), a Chicago street gang founded in 1951 as an Italian American social athletic club in West Town; navy blue and powder blue, two-lions emblem, People Nation alliance, once among the city's largest white gangs.
Chicago Growth Partners
Chicago Growth Partners was a Chicago-based middle-market private equity firm formed in 2004 as a spin-out of William Blair & Co., raising two funds totaling roughly $780 million.
Chicago Journal of International Law
Chicago Journal of International Law (CJIL), ISSN 1529-0816, is the University of Chicago Law School's student-edited international law journal, founded 1999-2000, merged with the Roundtable in 2002, published twice yearly with a CJIL Online imprint.
Chicago Loop
The Chicago Loop, also known as Downtown Chicago, is Chicago's central business district, bounded by the 1897 elevated rail line and holding 53% of the city's private-sector jobs.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, known as the Merc, is a Chicago-based derivatives exchange founded in 1898 by butter and egg merchants, now the world's largest.
Chicago Outfit
Chicago Outfit: Chicago's single La Cosa Nostra family, also called the Chicago Syndicate or Chicago Mob. Founded via Colosimo, Torrio, and Al Capone during Prohibition; crew-based structure; known for street tax, juice loans, gambling, labor racketeering; weakened by Operation Family Secrets.
Chicago Police Department
Chicago Police Department (CPD), municipal police force of Chicago, Illinois, established 1855; about 12,000 officers, second-largest US police force; under 2019 federal consent decree after 2017 DOJ findings of unconstitutional force.
Chicago Public Library
Chicago Public Library (CPL), the municipal library system of Chicago, founded 1872 after the Great Chicago Fire with 8,000 donated British books; 81 locations including Harold Washington Library Center, plus regional branches and a presidential-center branch.
Chicago Public Schools
Chicago Public Schools (CPS), Chicago's school district and among the largest in the U.S.: 304,687 students, 626 schools, $10.25B FY2026 budget, hybrid elected board since 2025, CEO Macquline King.
Chicago rat hole
The Chicago rat hole was a rodent-shaped animal imprint on a sidewalk at 1918 W Roscoe St, Roscoe Village, viral from January 2024 after Winslow Dumaine's X post; removed April 2024, and a 2025 study found it was made by a squirrel.
Chicago Research and Trading Group
Chicago Research and Trading Group was a Chicago options market maker founded in 1977 by Joe Ritchie that pioneered computer-driven trading and was sold to NationsBank in 1993.
Chicago Review
Chicago Review is a student-run literary magazine founded in 1946 at the University of Chicago, publishing poetry, fiction, and criticism quarterly in the Division of the Humanities.
Chicago school of economics
The Chicago school of economics, also known as Chicago economics, is a free-market tradition from the University of Chicago, led by Milton Friedman, George Stigler, and Gary Becker.
Chicago Seven
The Chicago Seven were anti-Vietnam War activists who faced a controversial federal trial after the 1968 Chicago Convention protests, which became a national symbol of the decade's conflict.
Chicago Sports Network
Chicago Sports Network (CHSN), launched October 1, 2024, is the team-owned regional sports network (with Standard Media) home of the Chicago Blackhawks, Bulls, and White Sox, replacing NBC Sports Chicago; streams from $19.99/month.
Chicago State University
Chicago State University (CSU), founded 1867 as Cook County Normal School, is a public university on Chicago's South Side at 95th and King Drive, offering bachelor's through doctoral degrees, known for teacher education, low tuition, and post-2015 budget-impasse financial and enrollment struggles.
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times: daily Chicago newspaper founded 1948 from the Chicago Sun and Daily Times merger, known for investigative journalism and eight Pulitzer Prizes; owned by Chicago Public Media (WBEZ) as a nonprofit since 2022.
Chicago Trading Company
Chicago Trading Company is a proprietary trading firm founded in 1995 and headquartered in Chicago, specializing in options market making, systematic strategies, and trading technology across derivatives exchanges worldwide.
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune, also known as the Chicago Daily Tribune, is a Chicago daily newspaper founded in 1846 and privately held by Alden Global Capital since 2021.
Chicago Tylenol murders
Chicago Tylenol murders: unsolved September 1982 cyanide poisonings of seven Chicago-area people via tampered Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules; prompted a 31-million-bottle recall, FDA tamper-resistant packaging rules, and the 1983 Federal Anti-Tampering Act.
Chicago Ventures
Chicago Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm founded in Chicago in 2012 by Stuart Larkins, leading early rounds in startups outside Silicon Valley and New York.
Chicano
Chicano: identity label for US-born Mexican Americans, reclaimed in the 1960s-1970s Chicano civil rights movement from a formerly derogatory term; related forms Chicana, Chicanx, Xicano; decline in general discourse by the late 1970s.
Chicano Movement
The Chicano Movement, also called El Movimiento, was a civil rights movement by people of Mexican descent in the United States, emerging in the mid-1960s.