Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in Illinois
and the third most populous city in the United States.
The city has approximately 2.7 million residents.
Its metropolitan area, sometimes called 'Chicagoland',
is the third-largest in the United States, after
New York City and Los Angeles, with an estimated
9.8 million people. Chicago is the county seat
of Cook County, though a small portion of the city
limits also extend into DuPage County.
Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837,
near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi
River watershed. Today, Chicago is listed as an
alpha+ global city by the Globalization and World
Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the
world in the 2012 Global Cities Index. The city
is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry,
telecommunications, and transportation, with O'Hare
International Airport being the second-busiest airport
in the world in terms of traffic movements. In 2008,
the city hosted 45.6 million domestic and overseas
visitors. Among metropolitan areas, Chicago has
the fourth-largest gross domestic product (GDP)
in the world, just behind Tokyo, the New York City
metropolitan area, and Greater Los Angeles, and
ahead of London and Paris. Chicago is one of the
most important Worldwide Centers of Commerce and
trade.
(Source: Wikipedia.org)
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