Chicago, Illinois | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-22

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago


00:04:46 1 Etymology and nicknames
00:06:14 2 History
00:06:23 2.1 Beginnings
00:07:53 2.2 19th century
00:17:01 2.3 20th and 21st centuries
00:17:12 2.3.1 1900 to 1939
00:22:17 2.3.2 1940 to 1979
00:26:55 2.3.3 1980 to present
00:29:29 3 Geography
00:29:38 3.1 Topography
00:33:48 3.2 Communities
00:34:58 3.3 Streetscape
00:37:07 3.4 Architecture
00:40:22 3.5 Monuments and public art
00:43:33 3.6 Climate
00:47:10 3.7 Time zone
00:47:36 4 Demographics
00:55:25 4.1 Religion
00:56:43 5 Economy
01:04:43 6 Culture and contemporary life
01:10:33 6.1 Entertainment and the arts
01:16:08 6.2 Tourism
01:22:15 6.3 Cuisine
01:25:08 6.4 Literature
01:28:10 7 Sports
01:35:50 8 Parks and greenspace
01:39:08 9 Law and government
01:39:18 9.1 Government
01:40:53 9.2 Politics
01:44:37 9.3 Crime
01:51:11 9.4 Employee pensions
01:52:09 10 Education
01:52:19 10.1 Schools and libraries
01:56:37 10.2 Colleges and universities
01:59:08 11 Media
01:59:17 11.1 Television
02:01:36 11.2 Newspapers
02:02:46 11.3 Movies and filming
02:04:39 11.4 Radio
02:05:33 11.5 Video games
02:06:15 12 Infrastructure
02:06:25 12.1 Transportation
02:07:26 12.1.1 Expressways
02:08:30 12.1.2 Transit systems
02:10:52 12.1.3 Passenger rail
02:11:53 12.1.4 Bicycle-sharing system
02:12:47 12.1.5 Freight rail
02:14:01 12.1.6 Airports
02:15:20 12.1.7 Port authority
02:17:13 12.2 Utilities
02:18:56 12.3 Health systems
02:21:42 13 Sister cities
02:23:02 14 See also



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Chicago ( (listen), locally also ), officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in Illinois, as well as the third most populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,705,994 (2018), it is the most populous city in the Midwest. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, and the county seat of Cook County, the second most populous county in the United States. The metropolitan area, at nearly 10 million people, is the third-largest in the United States.
Located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900 Chicago was the fifth largest city in the world. Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It is the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market gobally, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures. O'Hare International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world, and the region also has the largest number of U.S. highways and greatest amount of railroad freight. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. The Chicago area has one of the highest gross domestic products (GDP) in the world, generating $680 billion in 2017. In addition, the city has one of the world's most diversified and balanced economies, not being dependent on any one industry, with no single industry employing more than ...