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    Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States, with over 2.7 million residents. It is located in Illinois and is the largest city in the Midwest region. Chicago's metropolitan area is home to over 9.5 million people, making it the third largest metro area in the country. Chicago is a major global city and economic center, with industries including finance, commerce, transportation and technology. It is also a cultural hub, known for its contributions to art, literature, theater and music genres like jazz, blues and house music.

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    Chicago

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    Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States, with over 2.7 million residents. It is located in Illinois and is the largest city in the Midwest region. Chicago's metropolitan area is home to over 9.5 million people, making it the third largest metro area in the country. Chicago is a major global city and economic center, with industries including finance, commerce, transportation and technology. It is also a cultural hub, known for its contributions to art, literature, theater and music genres like jazz, blues and house music.

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    Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States, with over 2.7 million residents. It is located in Illinois and is the largest city in the Midwest region. Chicago's metropolitan area is home to over 9.5 million people, making it the third largest metro area in the country. Chicago is a major global city and economic center, with industries including finance, commerce, transportation and technology. It is also a cultural hub, known for its contributions to art, literature, theater and music genres like jazz, blues and house music.

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    Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States, with over 2.7 million residents. It is located in Illinois and is the largest city in the Midwest region. Chicago's metropolitan area is home to over 9.5 million people, making it the third largest metro area in the country. Chicago is a major global city and economic center, with industries including finance, commerce, transportation and technology. It is also a cultural hub, known for its contributions to art, literature, theater and music genres like jazz, blues and house music.

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    Chicago ( /ko/ or /ko/) is the third most populous city in the United States, after New

    York City and Los Angeles. With 2.7 million residents,[5] it is the most populous city in both
    the U.S. state of Illinois and the American Midwest. Its metropolitan area, sometimes
    called Chicagoland, is home to 9.5 million people and is the third-largest in the United States.
    [6]

    Chicago is the seat of Cook County.[a]

    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.
    [9]

    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 entering its region.
    [10]

    In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities

    Research Network,[11] and ranks seventh in the world in the 2014 Global Cities Index.[12] As of 2012,
    Chicago had the third largest gross metropolitan product in the United States, after the New York
    City and Los Angeles metropolitan areas, at a sum of US$571 billion.[13]
    In 2012, Chicago hosted 46.37 million international and domestic visitors, an overall visitation record.
    [14]

    Chicago's cultureincludes contributions to the visual arts, novels, film, theater,

    especially improvisational comedy, and music, particularly jazz,blues, soul, and the creation
    of house music. The city has many nicknames, which reflect the impressions and opinions about
    historical and contemporary Chicago. The best-known include the "Windy City" and "Second
    City."[15] Chicago has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues.

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