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Chicago is the largest city in both
Illinois and the Midwest, and the
third most populous city in the
United States, with over 2.8 million
residents. Its metropolitan area,
commonly named "Chicagoland,"
is the 26th most populous in the world,
home to an estimated 9.7 million
people spread across the U.S. states
of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana.
Chicago is primarily located within
Cook County, with the exception of a
small northwestern portion of the
city at O'Hare International Airport
that is located within DuPage
County.
Chicago was founded in 1833, near a
portage between the Great Lakes and
the Mississippi River watershed. The
Potawatomi were forcibly removed
from their land following the Treaty
of Chicago. The city became a major
transportation and
telecommunications hub in North
America. Today, the city retains its
status as a major hub, both for
industry and infrastructure, with
O'Hare International Airport being
the second busiest airport in the
world. In 2008, the city hosted 45.6
million domestic and overseas
visitors.
The
city is a center for business and
finance and is listed as one of the
world's top ten Global Financial
Centers. The World Cities Study
Group at Loughborough University
rated Chicago as an "alpha world
city" due to Chicago's important
role in the global economic
system.[8] In a 2010 survey
collaboration between Foreign Policy
and A.T Kearney ranking the world's
top global cities, Chicago ranked
6th behind Paris and Hong Kong and
above Los Angeles and Singapore. The
ranking assesses five dimensions:
value of capital markets, diversity
of human capital, international
information resources, international
cultural resources, and political
influence. Chicago is a stronghold
of the Democratic Party and has been
home to many influential
politicians, including the current
President of the United States,
Barack Obama.
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