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Chicago
—  Ceety  —
Clockwise frae tap: Dountoun Chicago, the Chicago Theatre, the Chicago 'L', Navy Pier, Millennium Pairk, the Field Museum, an the Willis Touer.

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Eik-name(s): The Windy Ceety, The Seicond Ceety, Chi-Toun, Chi-Ceety, Hog Butcher for the Warld, The Ceety That Wirks, an ithers foond at Leet o nicknames for Chicago
Motto: Laitin: Urbs in Horto (Ceety in a Garden), Mak Big Plans (Mak Na Smaa Plans), I Will
Location in the Chicago metropolitan aurie an Illinois
Chicago is located in United States
Chicago
Location in the Unitit States
Coordinates: 41°52′55″N 87°37′40″W / 41.88194°N 87.62778°W / 41.88194; -87.62778
Kintra Banner o Unitit States Unitit States
State Illinois
Coonties Cook, DuPage
Settled 1770s
Incorporated Mairch 4, 1837
Named for Miami-Illinois: shikaakwa
("Wild onion")
Govrenment
 - Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D)
 - Ceety Cooncil
Aurie
 - Ceety 234.0 sq mi (606.1 km2)
 - Laund 227.2 sq mi (588.4 km2)
 - Watter 6.9 sq mi (17.9 km2)  3.0%
 - Urban 2,122.8 sq mi (5,498 km2)
 - Metro 10,874 sq mi (28,163.5 km2)
Hicht 597 ft (182 m)
Indwallers (2011 Estimate)[1][2]
 - Ceety 2,707,120
 - Rank 3rd US
 - Densitie 11,864.4/sq mi (4,447.4/km2)
 - Urban 8,711,000
 - Metro 9,461,105
Demonym Chicagoan
Time zone CST (UTC−06:00)
 - Simmer (DST) CDT (UTC−05:00)
Aurie code(s) 312, 773, 872
Wabsteid cityofchicago.org
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Chicago is the lairgest ceety in the US state o Illinois. Wi ower 2.8 million indwallers, it is the third lairgest ceety in the Unitit States. Locatit on the soothwastren shore o Loch Michigan, Chicago is the third-maist densely populatit major ceety in the US,[4] and centur o the warld's 26t lairgest metropolitan aurie,[5] wi ower 9.5 million indwallers in three states.[6][7] Chicago is the coonty seat o Cook Coonty, the seicont lairgest coonty in the Unitit States bi population.

Chicago wis foondit in 1833, near a portage atween the Great Lakes an the Mississippi River watershed. The day, the ceety retains its status as a major hub for industry, telecommunications an infrastructure, wi O'Hare Internaitional Airport being the seicont busiest airport in the warld. In 2008, the ceety hostit 45.6 million domestic an owerseas visitors.[8] As o 2010, Chicago's metropolitan aurie haes the 4t lairgest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) o aw metropolitan auries in the warld.[9]

The ceety is a center for business an finance an is leetit as ane o the warld's top ten Global Financial Centers. The Warld Cities Study Group at Loughborough University ratit Chicago as an "alpha warld ceety".[10] In a 2010 survey collaboration atween Foreign Policy an A.T Kearney rankin ceeties, Chicago ranked 6t juist efter Paris an Hong Kong.[9] The rankin assesses five dimensions: value o caipital mercats, diversity o human caipital, internaitional information resources, international cultural resources, an poleetical influence. Chicago haes been ranked bi Forbes as the warld's 5t maist economically pouerful ceety.[11] Chicago is a stranghauld o the Democratic Pairty an haes been hame tae mony influential politeecians, includin, Barack Obama.

The ceety's notoriety is expressed in popular cultur is foond in novels, plays, movies, sangs, various types o journals (e.g., sports, entertainment, business, trade, an academic), an the news media. Chicago haes numerous nicknames, which reflect the impressions an opinions aboot historical an contemporary Chicago. The best kent include: "Chi-toun," "Windy Ceety," "Seicont Ceety," an the "Ceety o Big Shoulders.". Chicago haes an aa been cried "the maist American o big ceeties".

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  1. ↑ U.S. Census Bureau Delivers Illinois' 2010 Census Population Totals, Including First Look at Race and Hispanic Origin Data for Legislative Redistricting. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on 20 Februar 2011. .
  2. ↑ Population Change for the Ten Most Populous and Fastest Growing Metropolitan Statiscal Areas: 2000 to 2010. U.S. Census Bureau (March 2011). Retrieved on 12 Apryle 2011. .
  3. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geografic Names Information Seestem: Ceety o Chicago
  4. ↑ 2000 Census: US Municipalities Over 50,000: Ranked by 2000 Density. Demographia. Retrieved on 14 Juin 2009. .
  5. ↑ Demographia World Urban Areas & Population Projections (PDF). Demographia (April 2009). Retrieved on 18 Apryle 2009. .
  6. ↑ Annual Estimates of the Population of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2007 (CBSA-EST2007-01). 2007 Population Estimates. United States Census Bureau, Population Division (2007). Retrieved on 1 Januar 2009. .
  7. ↑ Population in Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas Ranked by 2000 Population for the United States and Puerto Rico (CSV). U.S. Census Bureau (December 30, 2003). Retrieved on 9 October 2008. .
  8. ↑ 2008 Visitor Volume Economic Impact. Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau (2010). Retrieved on 7 Mey 2010. .
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Global Cities 2010: The Rankings. Foreign Policy. Retrieved on 6 November 2010. .
  10. ↑ P.J. Taylor et al (2009). Measuring the World City Network: New Developments and Results. Research On Relations Between World Cities. Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network. Retrieved on 18 Apryle 2009. .
  11. ↑ In Pictures: World's Most Economically Powerful Cities - Forbes.com
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