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 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(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 | |
  Chicago Location in the Unitit States | |
| Coordinates: 41°52′55″N 87°37′40″W / 41.88194°N 87.62778°WCoordinates: 41°52′55″N 87°37′40″W / 41.88194°N 87.62778°W | |
| 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 | |
| • 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,[4] an centur o the warld's 26t mucklest metropolitan aurie,[5] wi ower 9.5 million indwallers in three states.[6][7]
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[update], the ceety hostit 45.6 million domestic an owerseas visitors.[8] As o 2010, Chicago's metropolitan aurie haes the 4t mucklest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) o aw metropolitan auries in the warld.[9]
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".[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 resoorces, internaitional cultural resoorces, 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, 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".
- ↑ "U.S. Census Bureau Delivers Illinois' 2010 Census Population Totals, Includin First Look at Race an Hispanic Origin Data for Legislative Redistricting". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived frae the original on 19 Februar 2011. Retrieved 20 Februar 2011.
- ↑ "Population Change for the Ten Most Populous and Fastest Growing Metropolitan Statiscal Areas: 2000 to 2010" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Mairch 2011. p. 6. Retrieved 12 Apryle 2011.
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geografic Names Information Seestem: Ceety o Chicago
- ↑ "2000 Census: US Municipalities Over 50,000: Ranked by 2000 Density". Demographia. Retrieved 14 Juin 2009.
- ↑ "Demographia World Urban Areas & Population Projections" (PDF). Demographia. Apryle 2009. pp. 35, 91. Retrieved 18 Apryle 2009.
- ↑ "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 1 Januar 2009.
- ↑ Template:Cite wab
- ↑ "2008 Visitor Volume Economic Impact". Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau. 2010. Archived frae the original on 29 Apryle 2011. Retrieved 7 Mey 2010.
- ↑ a b "Global Cities 2010: The Rankings". Foreign Policy. Archived frae the original on 2 Februar 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
- ↑ 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. see Table 1. Archived frae the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 18 Apryle 2009. Explicit use of et al. in:
|author=(help) - ↑ In Pictures: World's Most Economically Powerful Cities - Forbes.com