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Chicago, officially named the City of
Chicago, is the third largest
city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles, and the
largest inland city in the country with an official population of
2,896,016 as of the 2000 census. It is the fourth largest city in
North America, after the two U.S. cities and Mexico City, and the
seventh largest in the Western Hemisphere. The city itself covers 228
square miles but when combined with its suburbs(the metropolitan area),
known as Chicagoland,
it encompasses eight counties and more than 5,000
square miles with a population nearing 10 million.
Chicago is a mere 175 years
old and is located in the U.S. state of
Illinois on the western shore of Lake Michigan. Chicago has many
different nicknames and has been ranked as one of ten alpha world
cities by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group & Network.
Chicago is also known for its diverse cuisine and for its urban style.
When combined with its surrounding suburbs and with nearby Milwaukee
Chicago can be considered the center of a megalopolis
running along the
western shore of Lake Michigan from southeastern Wisconsin through
northwestern Indiana with a population of some 12,000,000 people.
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Chicago
History
The area now known as Chicago was first inhabited by Potawatomis
Indians. In the 1770s the first non-native settler, Jean Baptiste Point
du Sable, a Haitian of African descent, settled on the banks of the
Chicago River. In 1795 the Chicago area was removed from the Native
Americans, through the Treaty of Greenville, by the United States for
use as a military post. In 1803 Fort Dearborn was built. It was
destroyed in the Fort Dearborn Massacre during the War of 1812, but was
rebuilt in 1816 and remained in use until 1837.
On August
12, 1833 the Town of Chicago was incorporated with a
population of 350. On March 4, 1837 Chicago was granted a city charter
by the state.
The opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal in 1848 allowed shipping
from the Great Lakes to access the Gulf of Mexico by routing through
Chicago to the Mississippi River and so on. The first rail line to
Chicago, the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad, was also completed in
1848. Chicago would go on to become the transportation hub of the
United States with its road, rail, and water, and later air,
connections. Chicago also became home to nationwide retailers such as
Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck and Company that offered catalog
shopping using Chicago's resource of transportation connections.
In 1855 the level of the City of Chicago was raised four to seven feet
by "jacking up" individual buildings and bringing fill in to raise
streets above the swamp.
The 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago nominated home-state
candidate Abraham
Lincoln.
In 1871 most of the city burned in the Great
Chicago Fire. In the
following years Chicago rebuilt itself and its architecture became
influential throughout the world. The first
skyscraper was constructed
in 1885 using novel steel-skeleton construction. Chicago's
resurgence
onto the world scene was capped by the World Columbian Exposition(1893
Chicago World's Fair).
The 1880s and 1890s were a time when many Chicagoans made their
fortune, but the ordinary person's lot was fairly grim with poor
housing, disease, and long work hours the norm. Two noted events of
this period were the Haymarket Riot, which started in a way that is
still under debate, and the Pullman Strike of 1894. The Pullman Strike
started when railcar
magnate George Pullman simply "threw" workers out
of their company housing when they were no longer needed. Today Chicago
remains a town of strong unions as a result of a tradition of labor
militancy.
The Chicago
River's direction of flow was reversed in 1900 to prevent
sewage from running into Lake Michigan, the city's water source. The
River was reversed to flow into the Chicago
Sanitary and Ship Canal
which eventually flowed into the Mississippi River.
On December 2, 1942 the world's first controlled nuclear reaction was
conducted at the University of Chicago as part of the top-secret Manhattan
Project.
In August 1968 the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was
disrupted at first by peaceful, but noisy, protests and then by what an
ex-governor of Illinois characterized as a "police riot" when Chicago
police charged demonstrators on Michigan Avenue.
Chicago's population decline and lack of new construction,
characteristic of the town during the 1960s and 1970s, have been
reversed by a considerable amount of mostly private
investment which
make its center today quite lively with a number of museums, a first
rate symphony and opera company, and many live theaters. At the same
time pathologies remain, including significant homelessness and crime.
In a reversal of the pattern of the 1960s, which is an emulation of
modern Paris, the very wealthy
once again dominate the city center with
new residential housing in the Loop, even the financial district, River
North (formerly the Near North Side), and south of the Loop, while the
poor have been removed or forced out to the older ring of suburbs of
Chicago.
Lively ethnic neighborhoods have long been a Chicago feature. Prior to
World War I and the dispersal and persecution of German-Americans
Lincoln Avenue was a major German-speaking
area. Today the Chinatown near 35th and Cermak is a tourist draw and
Devon avenue is a lively Indian neighborhood based on the good fortune
of Indians and Pakistanis working as high-level professionals in
Chicago.
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Law
and Government
The government of the City of Chicago is divided into executive and
legislative branches. The mayor is the chief executive and is elected
by general election for a term of four years. The mayor appoints
commissioners and other officials who oversee the various departments.
The current mayor is Richard M. Daley. In addition to the mayor
Chicago's two other city-wide elected officials are the clerk and the
treasurer.
The City Council is the legislative branch and is made up of 50
aldermen, one elected from each ward in the city. The council enacts
local ordinances and approves the city budget. Government priorities
and activities are established in a budget usually adopted each
November. The council takes official action through the passage of
ordinances and resolutions.
The City of Chicago is the county seat of Cook County.
Related topics
* Chicago City Hall
* Chicago City Council
* City Departments
* Chicago Police Department
* Chicago Fire Department
* Mayors of Chicago
* Chicago aldermen
* Sister cities of Chicago
* Municipal Flag of Chicago
* Municipal Code of Chicago
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Geography
Chicago is located in northeastern Illinois at the southwestern tip of
Lake Michigan. In the 1830s, when Chicago was initially founded and
most of the early building around the mouth of the Chicago River began,
the land was swampy. According to the U.S. Census Bureau Chicago has a
total area of 606.1 km²(234.0 mi²), of which 588.3 km²
(227.1 mi²) is land and 17.8 km² (6.9 mi²) is water. The
total area is 2.94% water. The city has been built on relatively flat
land; the average height of land is 579 feet (176 meters) above sea
level.
The city lies beside Lake Michigan and two rivers, the Chicago River in
Downtown Chicago and the Calumet River in the industrial Far South
Side.
Connecting the Chicago River with the Des Plaines River is the Chicago
Sanitary and Ship Canal.
The Chicago Metropolitan Statistical Area(MSA) consists of Cook County
and five surrounding Illinois counties as well as the
Chicago–Gary–Kenosha Consolidated Statistical Area(CSA) which is made
up of nine counties, two of them in northwestern Indiana and one in
southeastern Wisconsin.
Chicago is also recognized around the world for its magnificent skyline
and is globally ranked fourth based on number of buildings and floors.
Related topics
* Chicagoland
* Chicago parks
* Chicago neighborhoods
* Chicago community areas
* Chicago landmarks
* The Tallest Buildings
* Chicago GIS Maps
Climate
Chicago has a climate typical of the Midwest. Sudden
changes of
weather, large daily temperature ranges, and unpredictable
precipitation patterns are all staples of Chicago weather. Chicago has
four clearly defined seasons although in certain years some
seasons may
overextend their welcome and linger into months they do not
traditionally occupy. For example, in Chicago it has snowed in
September(1942) and been 90°F(33°C) in March(1982). On February
8, 1900 the high and low temperatures differed by more than 65°F
(31°C) before the day was over.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Chicago is an unofficial
109°F(44°C) on July 24, 1935. The highest official temperature
ever recorded is 105°F(42°C) on July 17, 1995 during the
Chicago Heat Wave. The coldest temperature ever recorded officially in
Chicago is -27°F(-33°C) on January 11, 1982, with unofficial
reports of -30°F.
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Economy
Chicago has been a center for commerce in the United States for most of
its modern history. Today Chicago remains the United States' second
financial center with the nation's
second largest central business
district and third largest gross metropolitan product. In fact
Chicago's gross metropolitan product would rank 18th in the world if it
were a nation-state at approximately 380 billion dollars. Before it was
incorporated as a town in 1833 the primary industry was the fur trade. Chicago's
early explosive growth led many land speculators and enterprising
individuals to the area. Situated on the Great Lakes and
with so many new people settling the area Chicago became an ideal
location for shipping and receiving goods. Because of this many
railroads were constructed from Chicago to other parts of the country,
further aiding the growth of the city. Additionally, the building of
the Illinois
and Michigan Canal helped move goods south down the
Mississippi River.
In the 1840s Chicago became the largest
grain port in the world by
shipping food from the Mississippi Valley region, which was growing
into the largest food-producing region in the world. In 1848 Chicago
built its first grain elevator and in 1858 there were twelve grain
elevators dotting the skyline. Carl Sandburg described Chicago as a
"stacker of wheat" and some would argue that the grain elevators were
Chicago's first skyscrapers.
In the 1850s and 1860s Chicago's pork and beef industry exploded. Innovative
entrepreneurs such as Gustavus F. Swift and Philip Armour
helped the area to become the largest
producer of meat products in the
world at the time. By 1862 Chicago had displaced Cincinnati,
Ohio as
"Porkopolis". During the 1860s two factors helped this development.
First, the Civil War increased the demand for food products and
Chicago's transportation network ensured that goods could be delivered
quickly to soldiers all over the northern United States. Second, meat
packing plants began to utilize ice. Before this time meat production
and distribution facilities, otherwise known as disassembly plants, had
to shut down in the hot summer months. More operating months meant
hundreds of thousands of new man-hours in which people could work.
The efficiency of Chicago's meat packing industry and its disassembly
plants inspired
others such as Henry Ford
when he developed Model-T
assembly lines. Today we consider industries such as steel, oil, and
banking to be the great global market segments, but in the 1860s Chicago's
pork and beef industry represented
the first global industry.
As the major meat companies grew in Chicago many, such as Armour,
created global enterprises and communicated with divisions spread
across the globe via telegraph.
Modern day
futures and commodity trading markets were pioneered in
Chicago. A number of events led to this along with Chicago's
transportation systems and geographic proximity to the rest of the
country. Massive amounts of goods passed through Chicago from places in
the Mississippi Valley such as St. Louis, Missouri. Grain was stored in
Chicago and people began buying contracts on it. Later people as far
away as New York City began buying contracts by telegraph on the goods
that would be stored in Chicago in the future. Out of this grew the Chicago
Board of Trade(CBOT), the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange(CME), and
the modern systems we use today for futures and commodity trading.
Today Chicago is considered to be a Prime Accountancy, Advertising, and
Legal Service Center by the GaWC.
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* Major companies in Chicagoland
Demographics
People
living in the
Chicago area are called "Chicagoans".
As of the census of 2000 there are 2,896,016 people, 1,061,928
households, and 632,909 families residing in the city of Chicago
proper. This encompasses about one-fifth of the entire population of
the state of Illinois and 1% of the population of the United States.
The population density is 4,923.0/km² (12,750.3/mi²). There
are 1,152,868 housing units at an average density of 1,959.8/km²
(5,075.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 41.97% White,
36.77% Black or African American, 0.36% Native American, 4.35% Asian,
0.06% Pacific Islander, 13.58% from other races, and 2.92% from two or
more races. Of the population 26.02% are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
The main ethnic groups in Chicago are Irish, German, Italian and
Polish. Chicago has a very large Irish-American population on its South
Side. Many of Chicago's politicians, including its current mayor
Richard M. Daley, have come from this massive Irish population. Chicago
has the largest ethnically Polish population outside of Polish capital
of Warsaw making it an important Polonia center. It is also considered
to be the second-largest Serbian city in the world after Belgrade.
There are 1,061,928 households, of which 28.9% have children under the
age of 18 living with them; 35.1% are married couples living together,
18.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 40.4% are
non-families. Of all households, 32.6% are made up of individuals and
8.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The
average household size is 2.67 and the average family size is 3.50.
Of the city population, 26.2% are under the age of 18, 11.2% are from
18 to 24, 33.4% are from 25 to 44, 18.9% are from 45 to 64, and 10.3%
are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 32 years. For every 100
females there are 94.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over
there are 91.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city is $38,625 and the median
income for a family is $42,724. Males have a median income of $35,907
versus $30,536 for females. The per capita income for the city is
$20,175. 19.6% of the population and 16.6% of the families are
subsisting below the poverty line. Of the total population 28.1% of
those under the age of 18 and 15.5% of those 65 and older are living
below the poverty line.
Population estimates in 2003 put the number of people in the city
proper at 2,869,121; with suburban populations continuing to grow
estimates for the combined city and suburbs are at 9,650,137.
Related topics
* Maps of Chicago
* Chicago Metropolitan Population
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Colleges
and Universities
In higher education Chicago
holds a distinguished place because the
University of Chicago and Northwestern University have long been among
the United
State's most prestigious institutions. The Illinois Institute
of Technology has a national reputation and DePaul and Loyola
universities are major Roman Catholic institutions. The School of the
Art Institute of Chicago, Roosevelt University, and Columbia College
both offer a more diverse curriculum especially geared toward an urban
student body with a focus on the arts. The University of Illinois at
Chicago complements the main campus in Urbana-Champaign.
Junior colleges were pioneered by Chicagoans William Rainey Harper and
J. Stanley Brown in 1899. At the time Brown was the superintendent of
the Joliet Schools. During this time he developed a six year plan for
high school students. From this Joliet Junior College was established,
the nation's
oldest continuous public community college.
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Communications
and Media
Chicago is considered to command the third-largest market in North
America after New York City and Los Angeles; because of this it has
many different forms of media and outlets to support its status.
Indeed, despite the fact that Mexico City is larger even its market
does not
hold as much importance as Chicago's. Additionally, Chicago is
considered to be the
Prime Global Advertising Service Center by the GaWC.
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* Broadcast television stations
* Newspapers
* Radio stations
* Area codes
o Area code 312
o Area code 773
Arts and Culture
Chicago has made many significant pop-cultural resources for its youth.
Chicago is well known for its Chicago blues, but it is also the
birthplace of the House style of music whose history is related to the
development and fostering of the techno electronic style of music in
nearby Detroit.
Chicago style deep-dish and stuffed pizza provide the antithesis to New
York styles. Chicago is also linked to a robustly complex Chicago
style
Hot Dog, often called "the garbage dog", that challenges the
relative
simplicity of a New York coney dog. In the Italian beef sandwich
Chicago has a homegrown riposte to the "po' boy" of New Orleans and the
equivalent "hoagie" of Philadelphia. The Italian Beef typically
includes cheese, peppers, and onions. Another local specialty is cheese
fries(French fries covered in cheese).
Chicago schools have developed various studies such as the famed
Chicago school of architecture and the Chicago schools of economic
theory, literary criticism, and urban sociology.
Chicago is a well-known theater capital and is the mecca for
improvisational comedy. It is home to The Second City and
ImprovOlympic, two of the
largest comedy troupes in the world. Many
world famous actors and comedians are from Chicago or have
studied in
Chicago, particularly at Northwestern University.
Chicago also has a great
literary tradition. Carl Sandburg, a Pulitzer
Prize–winning poet and Abraham Lincoln biographer, gave the city one of
its best-known nicknames, "City of Big Shoulders", in his 1916 Chicago
Poems. These poems are representative of Chicago's spirit. At the same
time Sandburg, who was a lifelong Socialist, published other less
well-known poems criticizing
Chicago's disparities in wealth.
Historically, Chicago is remembered for machine politics, meat packing,
and gangster violence during Prohibition. "Vote early and vote often"
and "A city run of the Daleys, by the Daleys, for the Daleys" are
phrases often associated with Chicago politics. Some key criminal
figures are linked to Chicago, such as Al Capone and John Dillinger.
Chicago is home to the Moody Bible Institute. It was named after Dwight
L. Moody, a 19th Century evangelist who held a Sunday School and
founded a church in Chicago.
Related topics
* List of fiction set in Chicago
* List of non-fiction about Chicago
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Sports
Chicago is associated with many sports teams. It is one of the few
cities in the United States with two professional baseball teams(Cubs,
White Sox) plus professional football(Bears), soccer(Fire),
basketball(Bulls), and two professional hockey teams(the Blackhawks and
the minor-league Wolves). In the early history of the city sports were
at the heart of some founding legends. During the city's boomtown days
local authorities staged a dogfight knowing that it would attract some
of the more unsavory characters on the town's crime scene. As soon as
the fight began police moved in and arrested every criminal and
escorted them to the city borders. While the complete truth of the
story is sometimes doubted it is important as an early Chicago legend
and does reflect the early days of sports in the city. Early Chicago
had only the most primitive of sports. Until about 1850 men outnumbered
women and this male-dominated subculture encouraged gambling and
drinking, as well as activities such as billiards and horse racing.
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* Arlington Park
* Chicago Motor Speedway
* Chicago Blitz
* Chicago Rush
* Chicago Enforcers
* Chicago Bruisers
* Chicago Wolves
* U.S. cities with teams from four major sports.
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Health
and Medicine
The United States has the largest health care system in the world and
Chicago is arguably the capital of that system. The city is first among
the major dental and medical training centers in the United States. It
is also home to the sprawling Illinois
Medical District on the Near
West Side as well as the American Medical Association, the American
Hospital Association, the American Dental Association, and the American
College of Surgeons. The University of Illinois at Chicago claims to be
the largest medical school in the United States with 1300 students when
its campuses in Peoria, Rockford, and Urbana-Champaign are included.
Related topics
* Chicagoland hospitals
Transportation
Chicago can be considered one of the
prime transportation hubs in
America. Much of this status stems from its geographic proximity
during
a time when the United States was growing quickly in population and
area. The Illinois and Michigan Canal, completed in 1848, allowed for
transport around the world with connecting waterways through Chicago
all the way to New York and the Atlantic, west to St. Louis, and south
to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. Chicago then became one of the
largest grain and lumber ports in the world with grain going to more
established populations and lumber being sent to the forest-starved
prairies where new settlers needed to build. Even today Chicago's
importance in global distribution remains as it is the third largest
inter-modal port in the world after Hong Kong and Singapore.
In the 1850s the railroads started growing from Chicago faster than
anywhere else in the world. By 1856 Chicago was the railroad hub of
America and by the end of the decade more than 100 trains were coming
and going each day. This network allowed Chicago to become the center
of the meat packing industry. Chicago is still the railroad
hub of the
United States. All of the Class I
railroads in existence in the United
States maintain terminals in and around Chicago and the city is served
by a large number of smaller railroads that, both, interconnect the
larger railroads and connect to locations not served by the larger
railroads.
In the 20th century Chicago held on to its status as a transportation
hub with the building of three airports: O'Hare
International Airport, Midway
Airport, and Meigs Field. Meigs Field, which was closed by
Mayor
Richard M. Daley in a nighttime coup, was a relatively small airstrip
but unique because of its proximity to Chicago's downtown; the land is
to be converted into a lakeside park. As an airstrip for
private planes
Meigs Field was one of the busiest in the world. In the 21st century
Chicago is working toward maintaining its status as a U.S. and
international transportation hub by working to expand O'Hare
International Airport. Additionally, a new airport has been proposed
for Peotone, Illinois and the city is working toward expanding its ties
with the Gary/Chicago International Airport in Gary, Indiana.
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* Airports of Chicago
* Mass transit in Chicago
* Streets and highways of Chicago
* Multilevel streets in Chicago
* Chicago Regional Port District
* Chicago rail stations
* Route 66
* Chicago Trolley Company
* Chicago Tunnel Company
* Chicago Pedway
* Public Transit Trip Planner
Museums
* Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Ave. One
of the premier museums in the United States. Famous pieces include
American Gothic by Grant Wood, and A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of
La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
* Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.
Except holidays, M-Th 10AM-7PM, F 10AM-6PM, Sa 10AM-5PM, Su 11AM-5PM.
Built in 1897 as Chicago's first public library, the building now
houses the city's Visitor Information Center, galleries, and exhibit
halls. The ceiling of Preston Bradley Hall includes a 38-foot Tiffany
glass dome.
* Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake
Shore Dr., +1 312-922-9410. Every day 9AM-5PM. Chicago's natural
history museum. Highlights include the largest Tyrannosaurus rex
skeleton in the world as well as a great, kids-friendly Egyptian
exhibit. $10 ($5 children, $7 seniors and students; Monday and Tuesday
are free seasonally).
* Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave.,
+1 312-280-2660. Tue 10AM-8PM, W-Su 10AM-5PM. Art of all types from
around the world made since 1945. $10 ($6 student, free Tuesday after
5PM).
* Oriental Institute, part of the University of
Chicago, one of the best collections of ancient Egyptian and Near
Eastern archeology in the world.
* Museum of Holography
* Museum of Science and Industry
* Shedd Aquarium, 1200 S. Lake Shore Dr., +1
312-939-2438. Located on the Museum Campus, the Shedd Aquarium is home
to a large collection of marine life from throughout the world. The
Pacific Northwest–themed Oceanarium features dolphins, whales, and
other animals from the region, as well as a panoramic view of Lake
Michigan.
* Spertus Institute - Museum dedicated solely to
Judaica.
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