Lisa Madigan

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. The city has around 2.7 million residents. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called "Chicagoland", is the third largest in the United States, with... an estimated 9.8 million people. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion also extends into DuPage County. Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. Today, Chicago is listed as an alpha+ global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the world on the 2012 Global Cities Index. The city retains its status as an international hub for finance, industry, telecommunications and infrastructure, with O'Hare International Airport being the second busiest airport in the world in terms of traffic movements. In 2008, the city hosted 45.6 million domestic and overseas visitors. Among metropolitan areas, Chicago has the 4th largest Gross Domestic Product in the world, ranking just behind Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles.
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Pat Byrnes is an American cartoonist best known for his work for The New Yorker. He created the comic strip Monkeyhouse, which ran for three years. He received the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award for 2001, with an additional nomination for 2000, and nominations for... their Gag Cartoon Award for 1999 and 2000. Byrnes is married to the 41st Attorney General of Illinois, Lisa Madigan, and they have two daughters, Rebecca and Lucy. Byrnes is the author of the books What Would Satan Do? Cartoons About Right, Wrong, and Very, Very Wrong and "Because I'm the Child Here and I Said So." He also illustrated Lynn Truss's "Eats, Shoots and Leaves Illustrated Edition" and several other books. Byrnes is a 1981 graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Aerospace Engineering.
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