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Há 3 dias · Chicago is a city, the seat of Cook county, in northeastern Illinois, U.S. With a population of nearly three million, Chicago is the state’s largest and the country’s third most populous city. It is the commercial and cultural hub of the American Midwest. Learn more about Chicago in this article.
Chicago is a city in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is the third largest city in the United States. As of 2020, the population is 2,746,388. [3] It is the city with the largest population in the Midwestern United States. Chicago is the main city of the Chicago metropolitan area, or Chicagoland.
De acordo com o United States Census Bureau, Chicago tem uma área total de 606.1 km², sendo 588.3 km² terreno e os 17.8 remanescentes água, o que corresponde a uma percentagem de 2.94%. O terreno em que a cidade se situa é relativamente plano, com uma altura média de 176 metros acima do nível médio do mar.
Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history. Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe, especially Jews, Poles, and Italians, along with many smaller groups.
Des gratte-ciel construits récemment comme le St. Regis Chicago (363 mètres), le One Chicago (296 mètres), le One Bennett Park (256 mètres), le NEMA (273 mètres) et la Salesforce Tower Chicago (254 mètres) ou en projet comme la Tribune East Tower (433 m ; il sera à son achèvement le deuxième plus haut gratte-ciel de la ville [176]) redessinent le panorama urbain de Chicago.
Chicago liegt im Nordosten von Illinois. Laut Daten des United States Census Bureau hat die Stadt eine Fläche von 606,1 Quadratkilometern. Gewässer bedecken davon 2,94 Prozent (17,8 Quadratkilometer). In Chicago mündete einst der Chicago River in den Michigansee, einen der fünf Großen Seen Nordamerikas.
Incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago was ideally situated to take advantage of the trading possibilities created by the nation’s westward expansion. The completion of the Illinois & Michigan Canal in 1848 created a water link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, but the canal was soon rendered obsolete by railroads.
