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    Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States, located in Illinois on the western shore of Lake Michigan. It grew rapidly in the 19th century but suffered major damage in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, after which it rebuilt quickly. Chicago is a global hub for finance, commerce, industry, and transportation, and is home to several Fortune 500 companies. It attracts many visitors each year and has numerous cultural attractions, professional sports teams, and top research universities.

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    Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States, located in Illinois on the western shore of Lake Michigan. It grew rapidly in the 19th century but suffered major damage in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, after which it rebuilt quickly. Chicago is a global hub for finance, commerce, industry, and transportation, and is home to several Fortune 500 companies. It attracts many visitors each year and has numerous cultural attractions, professional sports teams, and top research universities.

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    Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States, located in Illinois on the western shore of Lake Michigan. It grew rapidly in the 19th century but suffered major damage in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, after which it rebuilt quickly. Chicago is a global hub for finance, commerce, industry, and transportation, and is home to several Fortune 500 companies. It attracts many visitors each year and has numerous cultural attractions, professional sports teams, and top research universities.

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    Chicago (/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ ( listen), locally also /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/), officially the City of Chicago,

    is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the third most populous city
    in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,705,994 (2018), it is also the
    most populous city in the Midwestern United States. Chicago is the county seat of
    Cook County, the second most populous county in the US, with portions of the
    northwest city limits extending into DuPage County near O'Hare Airport. Chicago is
    the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland.
    At nearly 10 million people, the metropolitan area is the third most populous in the
    nation.

    Located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a


    city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River
    watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-19th century.[7] After the Great Chicago Fire of
    1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the
    city made a concerted effort to rebuild.[8] The construction boom accelerated
    population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900, less than 30 years
    after the great fire, Chicago was the fifth-largest city in the world.[9] Chicago made
    noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new
    construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of
    the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.[10][11]

    Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education,


    technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It is the site of the creation of the
    first standardized futures contracts, issued by the Chicago Board of Trade, which
    today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20%
    of all volume in commodities and financial futures alone.[12] Depending on the
    particular year, the city's O'Hare International Airport is routinely ranked as the
    world's first or second busiest airport according to tracked data by the Airports
    Council International. The region also has the largest number of federal highways and
    is the nation's railroad hub.[13] Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the
    Globalization and World Cities Research Network,[14] and it ranked seventh in the
    entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index.[15] The Chicago area has one of the
    highest gross domestic products (GDP) in the world, generating $680 billion in
    2017.[16] In addition, the city has one of the world's most diversified and balanced
    economies, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce.[17]
    Chicago is home to several Fortune 500 companies, including Allstate, Boeing,
    Exelon, Kraft Heinz, McDonald's, Mondelez International, Sears, United Airlines
    Holdings, and Walgreens.

    Chicago's 58 million domestic and international visitors in 2018 made it the second
    most visited city in the nation, not far behind New York City's 65 million visitors in
    2018.[18][19] The city was ranked first in the 2018 Time Out City Life Index, a global
    quality of life survey of 15,000 people in 32 cities.[20][21][22][23][24] Landmarks in the
    city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, the Art Institute of
    Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis (Sears) Tower, Grant Park, the Museum of
    Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicago's culture includes the visual
    arts, literature, film, theatre, comedy (especially improvisational comedy), food, and
    music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, gospel,[25] and electronic dance music
    including house music. Of the area's many colleges and universities, the University of
    Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago are
    classified as "highest research" doctoral universities. Chicago has professional sports
    teams in each of the major professional leagues, including two Major League Baseball
    teams.

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