Chicago
Chicago is the home of the blues and the truth of jazz, the heart of comedy and the idea of the skyscraper. Here, the age of railroads found its center, and airplanes followed suit.Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Popular Destinations
Loop
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The Loop is the central business district of Chicago, bounded by the Chicago River to the north and west, Harrison Street to the south, and Lake Michigan to the east.
O'Hare International Airport
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O'Hare International Airport is one of the biggest and busiest airports in the world.
Destinations
Hyde Park
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Hyde Park is one of Chicago's most famous neighborhoods, most certainly so on the South Side, located along the south lakefront.
Rogers Park
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Rogers Park is the northern border of Chicago — the wild-eyed inheritor of uninhibited lakefront, swamps become beaches, and the beauty of Chicago bricks.
Wicker Park
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Wicker Park is the vanguard of music, nightlife, and fashion in Chicago.
Lakeview-North Center
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Lakeview has the lion's share of Chicago's nightlife, starting with Wrigleyville, home of the…
Lincoln Park-Old Town
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In Lincoln Park, collegians mix with freshly-minted lawyers and barrel-chested brokers.
Near South
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The Near South is the home of several of Chicago's main attractions: the splendid Museum Campus…
Bridgeport-Chinatown
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Bridgeport-Chinatown is the South Side at its most dynamic, as the old South Side Irish neighborhood of the Daleys increasingly blends with the old Chinese immigrant community to the north.
Far West Side
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Chicago's Far West Side is best known for being impoverished and crime-ridden, but it has at least one major attraction as well as some fabulous parks, vibrant immigrant communities, and blues legends.
Far Northwest Side
The Far Northwest Side of Chicago includes the neighborhoods of Avondale and the Polish Village…Near West Side
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The Near West Side of Chicago has two of the city's premiere culinary strips, Little Italy and Greektown, and basketball legend Michael Jordan's old stomping grounds with the Chicago Bulls.
North Lincoln
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North Lincoln is a collection of neighborhoods on the north side of Chicago through which Lincoln Avenue wanders, remembering treasures and curiosities of the last century in Chicago life, moving along, and forgetting them all over again.
Bronzeville
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Bronzeville, the Black Metropolis, is a mecca of African-American History on Chicago's South Side, just miles south of downtown.
Pilsen
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Only a few minutes from the center of Chicago by train, Pilsen is a working-class predominantly Mexican-American neighborhood.
Chatham-South Shore
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Chatham-South Shore is a district at the heart of Chicago's South Side, home to the real Chicago blues, some mind-blowing BBQ, and the best soul food in town.
Logan-Bucktown
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Logan Square is an expansive neighborhood with sweeping boulevards on Chicago's West Side.
Far Southeast Side
The Far Southeast Side of Chicago is a huge section of Chicago with only one large tourist draw: the Pullman Historic District.Far Southwest Side
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The Far Southwest Side of Chicago is home to a large Irish-American community, a ton of Irish pubs, and even a replica Irish castle.
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Notable Places in the Area
The Field Museum of Natural History
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The Field Museum of Natural History, also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world.
Soldier Field
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Soldier Field is a multi-purpose stadium on the Near South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Millennium Park
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Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
Localities in the Area
West Town
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West Town, northwest of the Loop on Chicago's West Side, is one of the city's officially designated community areas.
Lincoln Park
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Lincoln Park is a designated community area on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.
Bridgeport
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Bridgeport is one of the 77 community areas in Chicago, on the city's South Side, bounded on the…
Chicago
- Type: City with 2,750,000 residents
- Description: city and county seat of Cook County, Illinois, United States of America
- Postal codes: 60601-60626, 60628-60634, 60636-60647, 60649, 60651-60657, 60659-60661, 60664, 60668-60670, 60673-60675, 60677, 60678, 60680, 60681, 60684, 60685, 60687, 60690, 60691, 60693, 60694, 60697, 60699 and 60701
- Neighbors: Blue Island, Des Plaines, Evanston, Oak Park, Park Ridge and Skokie
- Categories: city of Illinois, global city, big city and locality
- Location: Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.8789° or 41° 52' 44" northLongitude
-87.6358° or 87° 38' 9" westPopulation
2,750,000Elevation
587 feet (179 metres)IATA airport code
CHIUnited Nations Location Code
US CHIOpen Location Code
86HJV9H7+GMOpenStreetMap ID
node 153388690OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4887398Wikidata ID
Q1297Chicago Satellite Map
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Also Known As
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- Albanian: Çikago
- Amharic: ሺካጎ
- Arabic: Chicago
- Arabic: شيكاغو
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- Armenian: Շիքակօ
- Armenian: Չիկագո
- Arpitan: Chicago
- Arpitan: Chicagô
- Assamese: চিকাগো
- Assamese: বতাহৰ চহৰ
- Asturian: Chicago, Illinois
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- Bhojpuri: शिकागो
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- English: Chi-Raq
- English: Chi-Town
- English: Chicago, IL
- English: Chicago, Illinois
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- English: City by the Lake
- English: City of Broad Shoulders
- English: City of Chicago
- English: The Queen of the West
- English: The Second City
- English: The Windy City
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- German: Chicago
- German: Chicago, IL
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- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Chicago
- Gothic: 𐍃𐌾𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌲𐍉
- Gothic: 𐍄𐍃𐌾𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌲𐍉
- Greek: Σικάγο
- Guarani: Chikago
- Guianese Creole French: Chicago
- Gujarati: શિકાગો
- Haitian: Chikago
- Hakka Chinese: Chi-kâ-kô
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- Hausa: Chicago
- Hausa: Kikako, ʻIlinoe
- Hawaiian: Kikako, ʻIlinoe
- Hawaiian: Kikako
- Hebrew: שיקגו
- Hindi: शिकागॊ
- Hindi: शिकागो
- Hungarian: Chicago
- Hungarian: Szeles város
- Hungarian: szelek városa
- Icelandic: Chicago
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- Iloko: Chicago
- Inari Sami: Chicago
- Indonesian: Chicago, Illinois
- Indonesian: Chicago
- Indonesian: City of Broad Shoulders
- Indonesian: The Queen of the West
- Indonesian: The Second City
- Indonesian: The Windy City
- Interlingua: Chicago
- Interlingue: Chicago
- Inuktitut: ᓰᖄᑯ
- Irish: Chicago, Illinois
- Irish: Chicago
- Italian: Chicago
- Jamaican Creole English: Chikaago
- Japanese: 2番目の都市
- Japanese: CHI
- Japanese: シカゴ
- Japanese: シカゴ市
- Japanese: シャイ・タウン
- Japanese: 市俄古
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- Kara-Kalpak: Shikago
- Karachay-Balkar: Чикаго
- Kazakh: Батыс патшайымы
- Kazakh: Желді қала
- Kazakh: Чикаго
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- Kildin Sami: Чикаго
- Kirghiz: Чикаго
- Korean: 시카고
- Kurdish: Chicago
- Ladin: Chicago
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- Lao: Chicago
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- Latin: Chicagum
- Latin: Sicagia
- Latin: Sicagum
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- Ligurian: Chicago
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- Lingua Franca Nova: Chicago
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- Macedonian: Чикаго
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- Malay: Chicago
- Malay: شيکاݢو
- Malayalam: ഷിക്കാഗോ
- Maltese: Chicago
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- Maori: Chicago
- Marathi: शिकागो
- Mazanderani: شیکاگو
- Min Dong Chinese: Chicago
- Min Dong Chinese: Ciĕ-gă-gŏ̤
- Min Nan Chinese: Chicago
- Mingrelian: ჩიკაგო
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- Moksha: Чикаго
- Mongolian: Чикаго
- Nauru: Chicago
- Navajo: Shikááʼgóó
- Neapolitan: Chicago
- Nepali: शिकागो
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- Newari: शिकागो
- Northern Frisian: Chicago
- Northern Sami: Chicago
- Norwegian: Chicago
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chicago
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Chicago
- Novial: Chicago
- Nyanja: Chicago
- Occitan (post 1500): Chicago
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܫܝܩܓܘ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Chicago
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Cicēa
- Ossetian: Чикаго
- Pampanga: Chicago
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- Panjabi: ਸ਼ਿਕਾਗੋ
- Papiamento: Chicago
- Pennsylvania German: Chicago
- Persian: شیکاگو
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- Polish: Chicago
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- Portuguese: Chicago, IL
- Portuguese: Chicago, Illinois
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- Quechua: Chicago
- Romanian: Chicago
- Romansh: Chicago
- Rundi: Chicago
- Russia Buriat: Чикаго
- Russian: Чикаго
- Rusyn: Чикаго
- Samogitian: Čėkaga
- Sango: Chicago
- Sardinian: Chicago
- Saterfriesisch: Chicago
- Scots: Chicago
- Scottish Gaelic: Chicago
- Serbian: Чикаго
- Serbo-Croatian: Chicago
- Shona: Chicago
- Sicilian: Chicagu
- Silesian: Chicago
- Sindhi: شڪاگو
- Sinhala: චිකාගොව
- Sinhala: චිකාගෝව
- Skolt Sami: Chicago
- Slovak: Chicago
- Slovenian: Chicago
- Somali: Chicago
- South Azerbaijani: شیکاقو
- Southern Sami: Chicago
- Southern Sotho: Chicago
- Spanish: Chicago
- Spanish: Chicago (Illinois)
- Spanish: Ciudad Junto al Lago
- Spanish: Ciudad de Chicago
- Spanish: Ciudad de Hombros Anchos
- Spanish: La Ciudad Ventosa
- Spanish: La Reina de Occidente
- Spanish: La Segunda Ciudad
- Sranan Tongo: Chicago
- Swahili: Chicago
- Swedish: Chicago, Illinois
- Swedish: Chicago
- Swiss German: Chicago
- Tagalog: Chicago
- Tagalog: Tsikago
- Tahitian: Chicago
- Tajik: Чикаго
- Talysh: Cikago
- Talysh: Çikaqo
- Tamil: சிகாகோ
- Tamil: ஷிகாகோ
- Tatar: Çikago
- Tatar: Чикаго
- Telugu: చికాగో
- Tetum: Chicago
- Thai: ชิคาโก
- Tok Pisin: Chicago
- Tok Pisin: Sikago
- Tornedalen Finnish: Chicago, Illinois
- Tornedalen Finnish: Chicago
- Tosk Albanian: Chicago
- Turkish: Chicago, Illinois
- Turkish: Chicago
- Turkish: Şikago
- Turkmen: Chicago
- Turkmen: Çikago
- Twi: Chicago
- Udmurt: Чикаго
- Uighur: Chikago
- Ukrainian: Чикаго, Іллінойс
- Ukrainian: Чикаго
- Ukrainian: Чикаґо
- Ukrainian: Чікаґо
- Ume Sami: Chicago
- Upper Sorbian: Chicago
- Urdu: شکاگو
- Uzbek: Chicago
- Uzbek: Chikago
- Venetian: Chicago
- Veps: Čikago
- Vietnamese: Chicago
- Vlax Romani: Chicago
- Volapük: Chicago
- Võro: Chicago
- Walloon: Chicago
- Waray (Philippines): Chicago
- Welsh: Chicago
- Western Armenian: Շիքակօ
- Western Frisian: Chicago
- Western Mari: Чикаго
- Western Panjabi: شکاگو
- Wolof: Chicago
- Wu Chinese: 契卡格
- Xhosa: Chicago
- Xhosa: E-Chicago
- Yakut: Чикаго
- Yiddish: שיקאגא
- Yoruba: Ṣìkágò
- Yue Chinese: 芝加哥
- Zeeuws: Chicago
- Zhuang: Chicago
- Zhuang: Cihgyahgoh
- Zulu: Chicago
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