Statistics for Chicago True or False?

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Chicago annually dyes its river green to celebrate St Patrick's Day	True	94%
One in three Chicagoans are black	True	83%
Cook County, which contains Chicago, is the most populous county in the US	False	77%
Chicago was the second-largest city in the US before being overtaken by Los Angeles in the 1980s	True	77%
The Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) was once the tallest building in the world	True	77%
The Chicago Cubs are the oldest Major League Baseball team to have never changed their city	True	69%
Barack Obama is the only US president to have been born in Chicago	False	66%
The films Thief, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and The Fugitive are all set in Chicago	True	66%
Chicago has the highest average wind speed of any city in the US	False	63%
The first presidential debate of the modern era, between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, took place in Chicago in 1960	True	63%
The Chicago Tribune is the oldest continually published newspaper in the US	False	54%
McDonald's, Boeing and United Airlines are all headquartered in Chicago	True	54%
Infamous Chicago mobster Al Capone was sentenced to prison for smuggling alcohol into the US during Prohibition	False	51%
In 2019, Chicago had the highest per capita murder rate of any city in the US	False	49%
Over 3,000 people were killed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871	False	37%