词条 | Flag of Chicago |
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| Name = Flag of the City of Chicago | Article = the | Type = Municipal | Image = Flag of Chicago, Illinois.svg | Nickname = | Morenicks = | Use = | Symbol = | Proportion = | Adoption = Original, 1917; additional stars added, 1933 and 1939. | Design = argent four mullets of six points gules in fess between two bars bleu de ciel | Designer = Wallace Rice }} The flag of Chicago consists of two blue horizontal stripes or bars on a field of white, each stripe one-sixth the height of the full flag, and placed slightly less than one-sixth of the way from the top and bottom. Between the two blue stripes are four red, six-pointed stars arranged in a horizontal row. The City of Chicago flag, designed by Wallace Rice, was adopted in 1917 after Rice won the design competition. The three sections of the white field and the two stripes represent geographical features of the city, the stars symbolize historical events, and the points of the stars represent important virtues or concepts. The historic events represented by the stars are Fort Dearborn, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, and the Century of Progress Exposition of 1933–34. In a review by the North American Vexillological Association of 150 American city flags, the Chicago city flag was ranked second best with a rating of 9.03 out of 10, behind only the flag of Washington, D.C.[1] SymbolismStripesThe three white background areas of the flag represent, from top to bottom, the North, West, and South sides of the city. The top blue stripe represents Lake Michigan and the North Branch of the Chicago River. The bottom blue stripe represents the South Branch of the river and the "Great Canal", over the Chicago Portage.[2] The lighter blue on the flag is variously called sky blue[2] or pale blue;[3] in a 1917 article of a speech by Rice, it was called "the color of water".[4][5] StarsThere are four red six-pointed stars on the center white stripe. Six-pointed stars are used because five-pointed stars represent sovereign states, and because the star as designed was not found on any other known flags as of 1917.[6] From left to right:
Additional stars have been proposed, with varying degrees of seriousness. The following reasons have been suggested for possible additions of a fifth star:
HistoryIn 1915, Mayor William Hale Thompson appointed a municipal flag commission, chaired by Alderman James A. Kearnes. Among the commission members were wealthy industrialist Charles Deering and impressionist painter Lawton S. Parker. Parker asked lecturer and poet Wallace Rice to develop the rules for an open public competition for the best flag design. Over a thousand entries were received.{{Citation needed|date=February 2019}} References1. ^[https://nava.org/digital-library/design/surveys/2004-American-City%20Flags-Survey.pdf "2004 American City Flags Survey"], North American Vexillological Association press release, 2 October 2004 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/August-2013/Chicago-City-Flag/|title=Chicago|work=Chicago magazine}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.printmag.com/imprint/flying-colors-the-best-and-worst-of-flag-design/|title=Flying Colors: The Best and Worst of Flag Design|work=Print Magazine}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N8MNAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA106&lpg=RA2-PA106&dq=what+color+blue+is+the+chicago+flag&source=bl&ots=vt4iAvOQTW&sig=_1dz9dka3PdRusA38CUfX17xVic&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CF8Q6AEwCTgKahUKEwi19dz_9c7IAhVQ8WMKHVNZAVs#v=onepage&q=what%20color%20blue%20is%20the%20chicago%20flag&f=false|title=Association Sounds Chicago's Call . . .|work=Chicago Commerce|publisher= Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry|volume=13|page=6|date=December 6, 1917}} 5. ^Chicago's flag: The history of every star and every stripe, Chicago Tribune, 13 June, 2016 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://introvert.net/blog/2005/07/22/wallace-rice-on-chicago-stars/ |title=Wallace Rice on Chicago Stars |first=Wallace |last=Rice |authorlink=Wallace Rice |author2=T. E. Whalen |date=22 July 2005 |work=introvert.net |accessdate=18 April 2011 }} 7. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web |url=http://www.chipublib.org/chicago-facts/ |title=Chicago Facts: Municipal Flag |publisher=Chicago Public Library |accessdate=2014-07-10}} 8. ^Fine Line Flag "Why is the Chicago Flag So Popular? And What Does it Mean?" https://www.finelineflag.com/blogs/news/why-is-the-chicago-flag-so-popular-and-what-does-it-mean 9. ^{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1976/08/15/page/184/article/its-a-grand-old-flag |title=It’s a grand old flag. But it could be grander. |first=Kenan |last=Heise |work=Chicago Tribune Magazine |date=August 15, 1976 |page=34 |access-date=April 14, 2017}} 10. ^{{citation |url=http://introvert.net/2005/chiflag/bibliography.pdf |title=The Municipal Flag of Chicago: References |first=T.E. |last=Whalen |date=January 3, 2006 |format=PDF |page=8 }} 11. ^1 2 {{cite news |url=https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150630/south-shore/story-of-rare-five-star-chicago-flag-that-wasnt-supposed-exist |title=The Story of the Rare 5-Star Chicago Flag That Wasn't Supposed To Exist |first=Mark |last=Konkol |date=June 30, 2015 |work=My Chicago |publisher=DNAinfo |access-date=April 14, 2017 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170614125912/https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150630/south-shore/story-of-rare-five-star-chicago-flag-that-wasnt-supposed-exist |archivedate=June 14, 2017 |df= }} 12. ^{{cite news |title=Please, A Moratorium On Memorials |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-12-23/news/8704050306_1_mayor-washington-memorials-richard-j-daley |accessdate=18 January 2013 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=23 December 1987 |quote=Ald. Raymond Figueroa and others want a fifth star added to the city's flag in memory of Mr. Washington. }} 13. ^{{citation |url=http://chicago2016.org/News_story.aspx?NewsStory=9 |dead-url=yes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210042919/http://www.chicago2016.org/News_story.aspx?NewsStory=9 |archive-date=February 10, 2007 |title=Chicago Students Creatively Try to Bring Home the Bid |date=December 14, 2006 |author=Chicago 2016 Newswire |publisher=Chicago 2016 Committee |access-date=April 14, 2017 }} 14. ^{{Cite news|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/anne-burke-wants-fifth-star-chicago-flag-special-olympics/|title=Anne Burke wants fifth star on Chicago flag for Special Olympics|work=Chicago Sun-Times|access-date=2018-07-20|language=en}} 15. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chicagoinc/ct-rahm-anne-burke-chicago-flag-fifth-star-1130-chicago-inc-20161129-story.html|title=Add a fifth star to Chicago flag, Justice Anne Burke tells Emanuel|last=Janssen|first=Kim|work=chicagotribune.com|access-date=2018-07-20|language=en-US}} 16. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-flag-origins-flag-day-htmlstory.html |title=Chicago's flag: The history of every star and every stripe |first1=Kori |last1=Rumore |first2=Ryan |last2=Marx |date=June 13, 2016 |work=Chicago Tribune |access-date=April 14, 2017}} Further reading
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