This local musician released an the album called Watch the Throne with Jay-Z in 2011.
Who is Kanye West?
100
This basketball star led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships during the 1990s.
Who is Michael Jordan?
100
For a long time, this building was the tallest in the world. Though no longer the case, it IS still the tallest building in The United States.
What is Sears Tower/Willis Tower?
100
This lake, lined with beaches and Lake Shore Drive, provides Chicago with its eastern border.
What is Lake Michigan?
200
This famous family lived in Hyde Park until 2009, when they moved to the White House in Washington, D.C.
Who are the Obamas?
200
This singer and performer has been spending a lot of time in Chicago because her boyfriend, actor Taylor Kinney, is shooting a TV show in Chicago. (Hint: she recently cancelled 2 big February shows at The United Center due to an injury.)
Who is Lady Gaga?
200
This baseball team won the World Series in 2005.
Who are the Chicago White Sox?
200
This television series on NBC follows the lives of paramedics and firefighters in Chicago.
What is Chicago Fire?
200
This annual event held each summer at Grant Park is the world's largest food festival.
What is Taste of Chicago?
300
He was the first African American mayor of Chicago, elected in 1983.
Who is Harold Washington?
300
This Dunbar High School graduate won an Academy Award for her role in Dreamgirls?
Who is Jennifer Hudson?
300
This Chicago team won its fourth Stanley Cup in 2010.
Who are the Chicago Blackhawks?
300
This movie and its sequel starred Ice Cube as Calvin Palmer, a small business owner on the South Side of Chicago.
What is Barbershop?
300
This city corporation, often known as CTA, operates the buses and trains that make up our mass transit system.
What is the Chicago Transit Authority?
400
This minister and civil rights activist is the founder of The Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
Who is Jesse Jackson, Sr.?
400
This former Chicagoan became famous worldwide for her popular talk show that ended in 2011?
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
400
This Simeon High School graduate has spent this season sidelined from his role as point guard for the Chicago Bulls, due to an ankle injury.
Who is Derrick Rose?
400
This museum, located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, resides in one of the few remaining buildings from the 1893 World's Fair.
What is the Museum of Science and Industry?
400
This body of water USED to flow into Lake Michigan but, around 1900, had its flow reversed away from the lake.
What is the Chicago River?
500
This is the title of the person who is elected to represent one of the 50 wards in Chicago.
What is Alderman?
500
This wide receiver and all-time punt return leader in the NFL has been with the Chicago Bears since 2006.
Who is Devin Hester?
500
This team recently saw Coach Lovie Smith replaced by Marc Trestman
Who are the Chicago Bears?
500
This Chicagoan was the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. She attended Hyde Park, Phillips, and Englewood High Schools. Today, there is a high school named after her.
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
500
This event, started in 1929, is the oldest and largest African American parade in the United States, and takes place in Chicago every August.