Chicago - The Windy City
Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States. With
over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of
Illinois and the Midwest. The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred
to as Chicagoland, is home to nearly 10 million people and is the
third-largest in the U.S. Chicago is the seat of Cook County.
Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between
the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, and experienced
rapid growth in the mid-nineteenth century. Today, the city is an
international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology,
telecommunications, and transportation, with O'Hare International
Airport being the busiest airport in the world; it also has the largest
number of U.S. highways and railroad freight. In 2012, Chicago was
listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities
Research Network,[9] and ranks seventh in the world in the 2014 Global
Cities Index. As of 2014, Chicago had the third largest gross
metropolitan product in the United States at US$610.5 billion.
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