Chicago
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Chicago
is the largest city in Illinois and the third most-populous city in the United States. The city has approximately 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,[7]though a smallportion also extends into DuPage County.
Chicago's notability has found expression in numerous forms of popular culture, including novels, plays, movies, songs, varioustypes of journals (for example, sports, entertainment, business, trade, and academic), and the news media. The city has many nicknames, which reflect the impressions andopinions about historical and contemporary Chicago. The best known include: "Chi-town", "Windy City," "Second City, and the "City of Big Shoulders.
This is the Municipal Flagof Chicago
Chicago was named the Best Sports City in the United States by The Sporting News in 1993, 2006, 2010.
The Chicago metropolitan area is thethird-largest media market in North America, after New York City and Los Angeles.
Chicago is a major world financial center, with the second largest central businessdistrict in the US.
Owing to racial discrimination in housing, the great majority of American blacks moving to Chicago in these years were clustered in a so-called "Black Belt"on the city's South Side.By 1930, two-thirds of Chicago's African-American population lived in sections of the city which were 90% black in racial composition. Chicago'sSouth Side emerged as America's second largest urban black concentration, following New York's Harlem.
Chicago has border with Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, Wisconsin and Lowa.
is the largest city in Illinois and the third most-populous city in the United States. The city has approximately 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,[7]though a smallportion also extends into DuPage County.
Chicago's notability has found expression in numerous forms of popular culture, including novels, plays, movies, songs, varioustypes of journals (for example, sports, entertainment, business, trade, and academic), and the news media. The city has many nicknames, which reflect the impressions andopinions about historical and contemporary Chicago. The best known include: "Chi-town", "Windy City," "Second City, and the "City of Big Shoulders.
This is the Municipal Flagof Chicago
Chicago was named the Best Sports City in the United States by The Sporting News in 1993, 2006, 2010.
The Chicago metropolitan area is thethird-largest media market in North America, after New York City and Los Angeles.
Chicago is a major world financial center, with the second largest central businessdistrict in the US.
Owing to racial discrimination in housing, the great majority of American blacks moving to Chicago in these years were clustered in a so-called "Black Belt"on the city's South Side.By 1930, two-thirds of Chicago's African-American population lived in sections of the city which were 90% black in racial composition. Chicago'sSouth Side emerged as America's second largest urban black concentration, following New York's Harlem.
Chicago has border with Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, Wisconsin and Lowa.
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