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CHICAGO
Calling Code: +1
Chicago is the largest city in the state of Illinois,
the largest in the Midwest, and, with a population of three million
people, it is the third-most populous city in the United States.
The Chicago metropolitan area (colloquially known as Chicagoland)
has a population of over 9.5 million in Illinois, Wisconsin and
Indiana, making it also the third largest metropolitan area in
the United States. Chicago is located along the southwestern shore
of Lake Michigan and is a major center of transportation, industry,
politics, culture, finance, medicine and higher education. Chicago's
monikers include the "Windy City," "Chi-Town," the "Second City,"
and the "City of the Big Shoulders" (from Carl Sandburg's poem
Chicago).
Chicago is the financial, business, and cultural capital of the Midwest. Founded in 1833 at the site of a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, it soon became a transportation hub of North America. By the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, it was one of the ten most influential world cities, a distinction it continues to hold.[2]
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