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      What Does Each Part of Chicago's Flag Represent? Here's a ...
      • The sky-blue stripes on the flag give the banner its first pop of color, and have been used in a wide variety of settings to help symbolize the city, including on sports uniforms. The top stripe was designed to symbolize both Lake Michigan, which borders the city on its eastern side, and the North Branch of the Chicago River.
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  2. The flag of Chicago consists of two light blue horizontal bars, or stripes, on a field of white, each bar one-sixth the height of the full flag, and placed slightly less than one-sixth of the way from the top and bottom. Four bright red stars, with six sharp points each, are set side by side, close together, in the middle third of the flag's ...

  3. Sep 30, 2024 · flag of Chicago. U.S. municipal flag, consisting of a white field (background) with two light blue stripes and, centred and arrayed horizontally between the stripes, four red six-pointed stars. The width-to-length ratio of the flag is 1 to 2.

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  4. Apr 4, 2017 · The flag’s top white stripe “stands locally for the North Side, nationally for the Atlantic Coast, and terrestrially for the countries east and north of the United States,” Rice wrote.

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  5. Aug 17, 2022 · The top stripe was designed to symbolize both Lake Michigan, which borders the city on its eastern side, and the North Branch of the Chicago River.

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  6. Feb 27, 2020 · The top blue stripe represents Lake Michigan and the north branch of the Chicago River. The bottom stripe represents the south branch of the river and the great canal.

  7. Jun 14, 2022 · Top white band: “This white stripe stands locally for the North Side, nationally for the Atlantic Coast, and terrestrially for the countries east and north of the United States.”

  8. Each stripe has meaning as well, with the top and bottom white stripes representing the North and South sides of the city, respectively; the center white stripe the West side of Chicago; and the blue stripes the city’s critical bodies of water: Lake Michigan and the North Branch of the Chicago River for the upper stripe, and the South Branch ...

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