| Jimmy Carter James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) was the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. Prior to becoming president, Carter served two terms in the Georgia Senate followed by the governorship of the State of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975.As president, Carter created two new cabinet-level departmentsDepartment of Energy and the Department of Education. Jimmy_Carter
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| Blue Gene Blue Gene is a computer architecture project designed to produce several supercomputers, designed to reach operating speeds in the PFLOPS (petaFLOPS) range, and currently reaching sustained speeds of nearly 500 TFLOPS (teraFLOPS). It is a cooperative project among IBM (particularly IBM Rochester MN, and the Thomas J. Blue_Gene
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| Argonne National Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory is one of the United States Department of Energy's oldest and largest science and engineering research national laboratories and is the largest in size in the Midwest (approximately twice the area of the nearby Fermilab). The laboratory is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC, which is composed of the University of Chicago and Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Argonne_National_Laboratory
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| Studs Terkel Louis "Studs" Terkel (16 May 1912 – 31 October 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago. Studs_Terkel
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| Ira Glass Ira Glass (born March 3, 1959) is an American public radio personality, and host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life. Ira_Glass
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| This American Life This American Life (TAL) is a weekly hour-long radio program produced by Chicago Public Radio and hosted by Ira Glass. It is distributed by Public Radio International on PRI affiliate stations and is also available as a free weekly podcast. Primarily a journalistic non-fiction program, it has also featured essays, memoirs, field recordings, short fiction, and found footage. The first episode aired on November 17, 1995, under the show's original title, Your Radio Playhouse. This_American_Life
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| Lou Dobbs Louis Dobbs (born September 24, 1945) is a CNN anchor and managing editor for Lou Dobbs Tonight. He is an editorial columnist and syndicated radio show host. Lou_Dobbs
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| Ed Burke Edward M. Burke (born December 29, 1943) is alderman of the 14th Ward of the City of Chicago. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the Chicago City Council in 1969, is the longest-serving Chicago alderman, and represents part of the city's Southwest Side. Burke has been called Chicago's "most powerful alderman" by the Chicago Sun-Times. Ed_Burke
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| Dawn Clark Netsch Dawn Clark Netsch (born September 16, 1926 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an Illinois professor of law and politician. A member of the Democratic Party in the United States, she served as Illinois Comptroller and in 1994 was the first woman to be nominated by a major political party to run for Governor of Illinois. In 2006, Judy Baar Topinka became only the second woman nominated by a major party. Dawn_Clark_Netsch
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| Andrew Bird Andrew Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in Chicago and currently splits his time between Chicago and a farm near the town of Elizabeth in northwest Illinois. He is musically proficient at the violin, whistling, guitar, mandolin, and glockenspiel. Andrew_Bird
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| Laurie David Laurie David (born March 22, 1958) is an American environmental activist. She serves as a trustee on the Natural Resources Defense Council and a member of the Advisory Board of the Children's Nature Institute and is a contributing blogger to the The Huffington Post. Laurie_David
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| Media in Chicago Chicagoland (the Chicago area) commands the third-largest media market in the United States and the largest inland market. All of the major U.S. television networks have subsidiaries in Chicago. WGN-TV, which is owned by the Tribune Company, is carried (with some programming differences) as "WGN America" on cable and satellite nationwide. Hollinger International is also headquartered in Chicago who, along with the Tribune Company, are some the largest owners of daily newspapers in the world. Media_in_Chicago
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| Tallgrass Beef Company Tallgrass Beef Company is a Kansas-based beef company that sells grass fed and grass finished beef. Tallgrass Beef became the first grass fed beef producer to sell steaks in Chicago in 2005 when Harry Caray’s Restaurant began selling Tallgrass Beef. Its beef is sold via restaurants and grocery stores throughout the Midwest, East Coast, and Southeast, in addition to mail order. Tallgrass_Beef_Company
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| Chicago Life Chicago Life Magazine is a magazine included every other month in the Sunday edition of the New York Times in the Chicago area. Among its topics are politics, health, the arts, and style.Contributors to the publication often include Chicago_Life
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| Ann and Robert H. Lurie Family Foundation Ann and Robert Lurie are Chicagoans. Robert Lurie died from colon cancer in 1990 at the age of 48.His widow, Ann, a registered nurse donated money to the Cancer Center at Northwestern University which now bears the Lurie name. Ann Lurie also committed $100 million to the new Children's Memorial Hospital. Ann_and_Robert_H._Lurie_Family_Foundation
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