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Chicago Community Info
Chicago, IL,
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Chicago is the third largest city in the United States and
the heart of a metropolitan area of over 8 million people, it is the commercial,
financial, industrial, and cultural center for a vast region and a mid-continental
shipping point. A major Great Lakes port, it is also an historic rail and highway
hub. O'Hare International Airport is the second busiest in the nation. An enormous
variety of goods are manufactured in the area. Despite an overall decline in
industry, Chicago has retained large grain mills and elevators, iron- and steelworks,
steel fabricators, and meatpacking, food-processing, chemical, machinery, and
electronics plants. The city has long been a publishing center; the Chicago
Tribune is among the most widely read newspapers in the country. Chicago covers
over 200 sq mi (520 sq km); it extends more than 20 mi (32 km) along the lakefront,
then sprawls inland to the west. Its metropolitan area stretches in the north
to the Wisconsin border and in the south to industrial suburbs on and beyond
the Indiana border. In addition to its noted expressways and boulevards, Chicago
has a system of elevated (partly underground) railways that extend into the
heart of the city, making a huge rectangle, the celebrated Loop, which gives
its name to the downtown section.
To learn more about various Chicago neighborhoods both in and around Chicago,
please click on an area in the Chicago Map below to learn more about the
cities and neighborhoods within that region.
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