Chicago | |
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| City of Chicago | |
 Clockwise from top: Downtown Chicago, the Chicago Theatre, the 'L', Navy Pier, Millennium Park, the Field Museum, and Willis Tower. | |
| Nicknames: The Windy City, Chi-Town, Chi-City, The Second City, Hog Butcher for the World, and others found at List of nicknames for Chicago | |
| Motto(s): Latin: Urbs in Horto (City in a Garden), I Will | |
 Location in the Chicago metropolitan area and Illinois | |
  Chicago Location in the United States | |
| Coordinates: 41°52′55″N 087°37′40″W / 41.88194°N 87.62778°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  Illinois |
| Counties | Cook, DuPage |
| Settled | 1770s |
| Incorporated | March 4, 1837 |
| Named after | Miami-Illinois: shikaakwa ("Wild onion") |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor–council |
| • Mayor | Rahm Emanuel (D) |
| • City Council | 50 aldermen |
| Area | |
• City | 234.0 sq mi (606.1 km2) |
| • Land | 227.2 sq mi (588 km2) |
| • Water | 6.9 sq mi (18 km2) 3.0% |
| • Urban | 2,122.8 sq mi (5,498 km2) |
| • Metro | 10,874 sq mi (28,160 km2) |
| Elevation | 597 ft (182 m) |
| Population | |
• City | 2,714,856 |
| • Rank | 3rd US |
| • Density | 11,864.4/sq mi (4,447.4/km2) |
| • Metro | 9,522,434 |
| Demonym | Chicagoan |
| Time zone | UTC−06:00 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−05:00 (CDT) |
| Area code(s) | 312, 773, 872, 847, 224 |
| FIPS code | 17-14000 |
| GNIS feature ID | 428803 |
| Website | www |
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Chicago (/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ ⓘ or /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles. With 2.7 million residents,[1] it is the most populous city in both the U.S. state of Illinois and the American Midwest. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called Chicagoland, is home to 9.5 million people and is the third-largest in the United States.[2] Chicago is the seat of Cook County.[n 1]
Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, and experienced rapid growth in the mid-nineteenth century.[6] Today, the city is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation, with O'Hare International Airport being the second-busiest airport in the world; it also has the largest number of U.S. highways, and railroad freight entering its region.[7] In 2010, Chicago was listed as an alpha+ global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network,[8] and ranks seventh in the world in the 2012 Global Cities Index.[9] As of 2012[update], Chicago had the third largest gross metropolitan product in the United States, after the New York City and Los Angeles metropolitan areas, at a sum of US$571 billion.[10]
In 2012[update], Chicago hosted 46.37 million international and domestic visitors, an overall visitation record.[11] Chicago's culture includes contributions to the visual arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy, and music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, and the creation of house music. The city has many nicknames, which reflect the impressions and opinions about historical and contemporary Chicago. The best-known include the "Windy City" and "Second City."[12] Chicago has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues.
- ^ a b "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places Over 50,000, Ranked by July 1, 2012 Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012". U.S. Census Bureau. May 2013. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
- ^ a b "Table 1. Annual Estimates of the Population of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012". U.S. Census Bureau. March 2013. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
- ^ "City of Chicago". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "In 1946 Chicago acquired land for O'Hare Airport, including a portion of northeast DuPage." Steph McGrath, "DuPage County" Encyclopedia of Chicago chicagohistory.org
- ^ "In order to consolidate its control over the airport area, Chicago annexed it in March 1956, including the western edge, in DuPage County." Amanda Seligman "O'Hare" Encyclopedia of Chicago chicagohistory.org
- ^ Keating, Ann Durkin (2005). "Metropolitan Growth". Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago. Chicago Historical Society. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
- ^ Rodriguez, Alex (2014-01-26). "Chicago takes on the world". Chicago Tribune. Sec. 1 p. 15.
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- ^ "2012 Global Cities Index". A.T. Kearney. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
- ^ "GDP by Metropolitan Area, Advance 2012, and Revised 2001–2011" (PDF). U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. September 17, 2013. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
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