Chicago (/ ʃ ɪ ˈ k ɑː ɡ oʊ / or / ʃ ɪ ˈ k ɔː ɡ oʊ /) is the largest city in the US state of Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States, with around 2.7 million residents. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called "Chicagoland," is the third largest in the United States, with an estimated 9.8 million people within its metropolitan area. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County.

Chicago was incorporated as a town in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. Today, the city retains its status as a major hub for industry, telecommunications and infrastructure, 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, the Chicago area has the 4th largest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the world. Chicago is one of the most important Worldwide Centres of Commerce and trade.

The city's notoriety has found expression in numerous forms of popular culture, including novels, plays, movies, songs, various types of journals (for example, sports, entertainment, business, trade, and academic), and the news media. Chicago has many nicknames, which reflect the impressions and opinions about historical and contemporary Chicago. The best known include: "Chi-town," "Windy City," "Second City," and the "City of Big Shoulders."

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Chicago

1. A large city located on Lake Michigan in northeastern Illinois, USA.

Derived terms

• Chicago Protocol
• Chicagoan
• Chicagoland

Chicago, officially named the City of Chicago, is an American city.

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• "Once you've come to be a part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real."
  • Nelson Algren: Chicago: City on the Make

• I came to discover that Chicago is that most American of American cities, but one where citizens from more than 130 nations inhabit a rich tapestry of distinctive neighborhoods. Each one of those neighborhoods -- from Greektown to the Ukrainian Village; from Devon to Pilsen to Washington Park -- has its own unique character, its own unique history, its songs, its language. But each is also part of our city -- one city -- a city where I finally found a home.
  • Barack Obama, Huffington Post

• "I have struck a city—a real city—and they call it Chicago… Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages."
  • Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea - Letters of Travel [1]

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