Chicago

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. , 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.In Pictures: World's Most Economically Powerful Cities - Forbes.com 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.Begin (or End?) Route 66 in Chicago at Theroadwanderer.net

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 warldAirt Institute o Chicago - haes a muckle collection o American an Impressionist airtField Museum o Naitural History - haes Sue, the mucklest an maist complete Tyrannosaurus fossil kentMuseum o Science an Industry - haes mony exhibits includin a real Boeing 727 jet plane which wis gien tae the museum bi United AirlinesPols Museum o Americae - Museum hauntit bi famous piano player Ignace Paderewski, haes muckle collection o Pols airt in the biggest Pols ceety ootside o PolandShedd 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

References

Ither wabsteid

 City of Chicago Homepage 
 Chicago Hotels 

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