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| History | |
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| Name | Chicago |
| Namesake | City of Chicago, Illinois |
| Builder | Philadelphia Naval Shipyard |
| Laid down | 28 July 1943 |
| Launched | 20 August 1944 |
| Commissioned | 10 January 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 6 June 1947 |
| Reclassified | CG-11, 01 November 1958 |
| Recommissioned | 2 May 1964 |
| Decommissioned | 1 March 1980 |
| Stricken | 31 January 1984 |
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| Honours and awards | See Awards |
| Fate | Scrapped, 9 December 1991 |
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| General characteristics | |
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| Displacement | 13,600 tons |
| Length | 674 ft 11 in (205.71 m) |
| Beam | 70 ft 10 in (21.59 m) |
| Draft | 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) |
| Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
| Complement | 1,142 officers and enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems | After refit: 1 AN/SPS-10 surface search radar[1] 2 AN/SPS-30 air search radar[1] 1 AN/SPS-43 air search radar[1] 1 AN/SPS-48 air search radar[1] 4 AN/SPG-49 Talos fire control radar[1][2] 4 AN/SPG-51 Tartar fire control radar[1][2] 2 Mark 35 gun fire control radar[1][2] 1 AN/SQS-23 sonar[1] |
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USS Chicago (CA-136/CG-11) was a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser laid down on 28 July 1943 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, by the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Launched on 20 August 1944, she was sponsored by Mrs. Edward J. Kelly, wife of the Mayor of Chicago, Illinois, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 10 January 1945, Captain Richard R. Hartung, USN, in command. She served in some of the last battles around the Japan home islands in WWII, and as part of the post war occupation fleet. Decommissioned after the war, she was refitted as a missile cruiser beginning in the late 1950s and recommissioned in 1964, serving during the Vietnam War. She served until 1980. USS Chicago CG-11 carried the title of "The World's Most Powerful Guided Missile Cruiser".[citation needed]