# Chicago

| Chicago |
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| Ceety |
| Clockwise frae tap: Dountoun Chicago, the Chicago Theatre, the Chicago 'L', Navy Pier, Millennium Pairk, the Field Museum, an the Willis Touer. |
| Banner |
| 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(s): 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 |
| ChicagoLocation in the Unitit States |
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| Kintra |  Unitit States |
| State | Illinois |
| Coonties | Cook, DuPage |
| Settled | 1770s |
| Incorporated | Mairch 4, 1837 |
| Named for | Miami-Illinois: *shikaakwa* ("Wild ingan") |
| Govrenment |
|  • Teep | Mayor–cooncil |
|  • Mayor | Lori Lightfoot (D) |
| Area |
|  • Ceety | 606.1 km2 (234.0 sq mi) |
|  • Laund | 588 km2 (227.2 sq mi) |
|  • Water | 18 km2 (6.9 sq mi)  3.0% |
|  • Urban | 5,498 km2 (2122.8 sq mi) |
|  • Metro | 28,160 km2 (10874 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 182 m (597 ft) |
| Population (2011 Estimate) |
|  • Ceety | 2,707,120 |
|  • Rank | 3rd US |
|  • Density | 4447.4/km2 (11864.4/sq mi) |
|  • Urban | 8,711,000 |
|  • Metro | 9,461,105 |
| Demonym(s) | Chicagoan |
| Time zone | UTC−06:00 (CST) |
|  • Summer (DST) | UTC−05:00 (CDT) |
| Area code(s) | 312, 773, 872 |
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**Chicago** is the mucklest ceety in the US state o Illinois. Wi ower 2.8 million indwallers, it is the third mucklest 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, an centur o the warld's 26t mucklest metropolitan aurie, wi ower 9.5 million indwallers in three states.

Chicago is the coonty seat o Cook Coonty, the seicont mucklest coonty in the Unitit States bi population.

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

The ceety is a centre for business an finance an is leetit as ane o the warld's tap ten Global Financial Centers. The Warld Cities Study Group at Loughborough University ratit Chicago as an "alpha warld ceety".

In a 2010 survey collaboration atween Foreign Policy an A.T Kearney rankin ceeties, Chicago ranked 6t juist efter Paris an Hong Kong. The rankin assesses five dimensions: value o caipital mercats, diversity o human caipital, internaitional information resoorces, internaitional cultural resoorces, an poleetical influence. Chicago haes been ranked bi Forbes as the warld's 5t maist economically pouerful ceety. 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, tred, 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".

## Cultur

Chicago haes a very well-kent cultur. Some o the mony things Chicago is famous for are: Chicago-style het dugs, Chicago-style (deep dish) pizza, Maxwell Street Pols Sausage, jazz muisic, an 1920s gangsters lik Al Capone. Chicago is an aa kent for interestin airchitectur lik the Sears Touer, mony museums, an mony lyal sports fans.

For mony years, the Sears Touer wis the tawest touer in the warld. It is still the seicont tawest biggin in the Unitit States.

Chicago is home tae the mucklest population o Poles in the warld, ootside o Warsaw. Historic U.S. Route 66 stairts in Chicago bi Grant Park in front o the Art Institute of Chicago.

## Economy

Chicago is a major warld financial centre, wi the seicont lairgest central business destrict in the Unitit States. The ceety is the heidquarters o the Federal Reserve Bank o Chicago (the Seivent Destrict o the Federal Reserve). The ceety is an aa home tae major financial an futurs exchynges. Chase Bank haes its commercial an retail bankin heidquarters in Chicago's Chase Touer.

## Museums

Thare are mony museums in Chicago. Thir include:
**Adler Planetarium** - biggit in 1930, it is the auldest planetarium in the warld
**Airt Institute o Chicago** - haes a muckle collection o American an Impressionist airt
**Field Museum o Naitural History** - haes *Sue*, the mucklest an maist complete *Tyrannosaurus* fossil kent
**Museum o Science an Industry** - haes mony exhibits includin a real Boeing 727 jet plane which wis gien tae the museum bi United Airlines
**Pols Museum o Americae** - Museum hauntit bi famous piano player Ignace Paderewski, haes muckle collection o Pols airt in the biggest Pols ceety ootside o Poland
**Shedd Aquarium** - at ane time the warld's mucklest aquarium. Has 19 million liters (5 million gallons) o watter an 22,000 fish

## Fowk frae Chicago

Some famous fowk who livit in or are frae Chicago.

* Barack Obama, Preses o the Unitit Sates
* Michelle Obama, First Lady o the Unitit States
* Rahm Emanuel, the 55t Mayor o the ceety.
* Ronald Reagan, umwhile Preses o the Unitit States.
* Oprah Winfrey, actress an host o *Oprah*.
* Nancy Reagan, umwhile First Lady o the Unitit States.
* Walt Disney, creautor o Walt Disney Pictures an Walt Disney Enterprises.
* Frank Lloyd Wright, famous airchitect (Guggenheim Museum, Robie House, Fallingwater), an writer.
* Robin Williams, comedian an actor.
* Jack Benny, comedian an actor.
* George Pullman, ingineer.
* Chris Farley, comedian an actor.
* Roger Ebert, film critic.
* Mike Gray, screenwriter, activist, an cinematographer.
* Kanye West, rapper, muisicker, an actor.
* Potter Palmer, airchitect an businessman.
* Daniel Burnham, airchitect.
* Carl Sandburg, poet.

## Sister ceeties

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| * **Warsaw** (Poland) *1960*
* **Milan** (Italy) *1973*
* **Osaka** (Japan) *1973*
* **Casablanca** (Morocco) *1982*
* **Shanghai** (Cheenae) *1985*
* **Shenyang** (Cheenae) *1985*
* **Gothenburg** (Swaden) *1987*
* **Accra** (Ghana) *1989*
* **Prague** (Czech Republic) *1990*
* **Kiev** (Ukraine) *1991*
* **Mexico Ceety** (Mexico) *1991*
* **Toronto** (Canadae) *1991*
* **Birmingham** (Unitit Kinrick) *1993*
* **Vilnius** (Lithuanie) *1993*
* **Hamburg** (Germany) *1994*
 | * **Petah Tikva** (Israel) *1994*
* **Paris** (France) *1996 – Pairtner Ceety*
* **Athens** (Greece) *1997*
* **Durban** (Sooth Africae) *1997*
* **Galway** (Ireland) *1997*
* **Moscow** (Roushie) *1997*
* **Lucerne** (Swisserland) *1998*
* **Delhi** (Indie) *2001*
* **Amman** (Jordan) *2004*
* **Belgrade** (Serbie) *2005*
* **Lahore** (Pakistan) *2007*
* **Busan** (Republic o Korea) *2007*
* **Bogotá** (Colombie) *2009*
* **São Paulo** (Brazil) *2010*
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## Ither wabsteid

 Travel guide tae *Chicago* frae Wikivoyage

* City of Chicago Homepage Archived 2008-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
* Chicago Hotels Archived 2014-07-01 at the Wayback Machine