If you look at the bills in your wallet you'll see that ALL current US paper money is in the form of Federal Reserve Notes. That means they're issued under the authority of the Federal Reserve System, the US central bank.
Earlier forms of paper money were also issued directly by the federal government and included:
It will read "Federal Reserve Note" at the very top of the bill.
Federal Reserve Note. All US paper currencies are Federal Reserve Notes.
1914 $20 Federal Reserve Note.
The green seal indicates your bill is a Federal Reserve Note. Please see the question "What is the value of a 1934 US 5 dollar Federal Reserve Note?" for more information.
The green seal indicates your bill is a Federal Reserve Note. Please see the question "What is the value of a 1934 US 5 dollar Federal Reserve Note?" for more information.
five-hundred dollars
The green seal indicates that your bill is a Federal Reserve Note. Please see "What is the value of a 1928 D US 5 dollar Federal Reserve note?" for more information.
The green seal indicates that your bill is a Federal Reserve Note. Please see the question "What is the value of a 1950 C US 10 dollar federal reserve note?" for more information.
Your bill is actually called a Federal Reserve Note, like modern $20 bills, rather than "a bank note of Chicago". Chicago is simply the Federal Reserve District location that distributed the bill. Please see the question "What is the value of a 1928 US 20 dollar Federal Reserve Note?" for more information.
The US Mint only makes coins. Your bill was printed in Washington; Philadelphia is the location of the Federal Reserve bank that requested and distributed the bill. Please see the question "What is the value of a 1914 US 5 dollar Federal Reserve Note?" for more information.
Please don't assume that every old bill is a silver certificate. The banner across its top identifies your bill as a Federal Reserve Note only. There's more information at the question "What is the value of a 1914 US 50 dollar bill?" Federal Reserve Notes were very different from silver certificates and were never combined. Silver certificates were issued directly by the Treasury and were backed dollar-for-dollar with silver on deposit. Federal Reserve Notes are issued by the Federal Reserve Bank and are not backed with precious metal.
The green seal indicates that it's a Federal Reserve Note. Please see the question "What is the value of a 1928 US 5 dollar Federal Reserve Note?" for more information.