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Chicago is the largest city by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Adjacent to Lake Michigan, the Chicago metropolitan area (commonly referred to as Chicagoland) has a population of over 9.7 million people in three U.S. states, Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, and was the third largest metropolitan area in 2000.[2] One of the , Chicago is among the world’s twenty-five largest urban areas by population, and rated an alpha world city by the Study Group at Loughborough University.[3] It is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles, with a population of nearly 3 million people.

Chicago incorporated as a city in 1837 after being founded in 1833 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. The city soon became a major in North America and the transportation, financial and industrial center of the Midwest. Today the city’s attractions bring 44.2 million visitors annually.[4] Chicago became notorious worldwide for its violent gangsters in the 1920s, most notably Al Capone, and for the political corruption in one of the longest lasting political machines in the nation. Chicago was once the capital of the railroad industry and until the 1960s the world’s largest meatpacking facilities were at the . O’Hare International is one of the world’s and the second busiest in the nation.[5] The city has long been a stronghold of the Democratic Party and has been home to numerous influential politicians including the current

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