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Most of the Illinois population is heavily concentrated in the North East of the state in the metropolitan area of Chicago. Club.[311]. [343] In addition, the Chicago Sister Cities program hosts a number of delegation and formal exchanges. Almost a quarter of the state population is living in Chicago due to the job opportunities there. Notably, industrial areas on the south side and neighborhoods lining both branches of the Chicago River were devastated; by 1933 over 50% of industrial jobs in the city had been lost, and unemployment rates amongst blacks and Mexicans in the city were over 40%. The name "Chicago" is derived from a French rendering of the indigenous Miami-Illinois word shikaakwa for a wild relative of the onion; it is known to botanists as Allium tricoccum and known more commonly as "ramps". [126], Chicago gave its name to the Chicago School and was home to the Prairie School, two movements in architecture. All eight of the city's representatives are Democrats; only two Republicans have represented a significant portion of the city since 1973, for one term each: Robert P. Hanrahan from 1973 to 1975, and Michael Patrick Flanagan from 1995 to 1997. In the Encyclopedia of Chicago, Northwestern University Professor Bill Savage describes Chicago fiction as prose which tries to "capture the essence of the city, its spaces and its people". Prominent food companies based in Chicago include the world headquarters of Conagra, Ferrara Candy Company, Kraft Heinz, McDonald's, Mondelez International, Quaker Oats, and US Foods. 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Late in the 19th century, Chicago was part of the bicycle craze, with the Western Wheel Company, which introduced stamping to the production process and significantly reduced costs,[201] while early in the 20th century, the city was part of the automobile revolution, hosting the Brass Era car builder Bugmobile, which was founded there in 1907. [327] According to U.S. Department of Transportation, the volume of imported and exported goods transported via rail to, from, or through Chicago is forecast to increase nearly 150 percent between 2010 and 2040. The citizens of Chicago have not elected a Republican mayor since 1927, when William Thompson was voted into office. Almost every census since 1960 has recorded a drop in population – sometimes as much as 10% in a decade – as the city's population gradually moves outwards to the more hospitable surrounding suburbs. Finally, just as a word of caution to indicate that published statistics aren't always the final word, this article in the Chicago Tribune reports that Mayor Rahm Emanuel is challenging the results of the 2010 census. The city lies within USDA plant hardiness zone 6a, transitioning to 5b in the suburbs. [270] During much of that time, the city administration found opposition mainly from a liberal "independent" faction of the Democratic Party. In the past decade, the state lost nearly a … Their service territory borders Iroquois County to the south, the Wisconsin border to the north, the Iowa border to the west and the Indiana border to the east. [113][114], Chicago's streets were laid out in a street grid that grew from the city's original townsite plot, which was bounded by Lake Michigan on the east, North Avenue on the north, Wood Street on the west, and 22nd Street on the south. Behind the pavilion's stage is the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, an indoor venue for mid-sized performing arts companies, including the Chicago Opera Theater and Music of the Baroque. The Civic Opera House is home to the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In Millennium Park, the reflective Cloud Gate public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor is the centerpiece of the AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park. If any information presented in this web site is known to be outdated, please contact the Chicago Police Department at srwbmstr@chicagopolice.org, or mail to Sex Registration Unit, 3510 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60653. In July 2013, the bicycle-sharing system Divvy was launched with 750 bikes and 75 docking stations[318] It is operated by Lyft for the Chicago Department of Transportation. Testing of Chicago Residents. Like Chicago itself, the northern suburbs are relatively more affluent than its southern suburbs. [188] In 2007, Chicago was named the fourth-most important business center in the world in the MasterCard Worldwide Centers of Commerce Index. Population Density is computed by dividing the total population by Land Area Per Square Mile. [284] In 2011, Chicago's murders fell another 1.2% to 431 (a rate of 15.94 per 100,000). Almost a quarter of the state population is living in Chicago due to the job opportunities there. The population has been estimated to be approximately {pop}, with slow growth and declines attributed to violence, tax increases and issues with schools. J.B.) Pritzker and … Chicago is a major world financial center, with the second-largest central business district in the United States. The population development of Chicago - Naperville - Elgin as well as related information and services (Wikipedia, Google, images). Lincoln Park contains the Lincoln Park Zoo and the Lincoln Park Conservatory. North Halsted Street is the main thoroughfare of Boystown.[211]. It is estimated that in the first 5 years of the past decade the population of Chicago has declined by about 2%. Chicago is the most crowded city in Illinois and the Midwestern United States and also the biggest city of Illinois. Germans, Irish, Poles, Swedes and Czechs made up nearly two-thirds of the foreign-born population (by 1900, whites were 98.1% of the city's population). [91] Washington was succeeded by 6th ward Alderman Eugene Sawyer, who was elected by the Chicago City Council and served until a special election. Mayor Richard J. Daley, a Democrat, was elected in 1955, in the era of machine politics. Chicago's first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois and Michigan Canal opened in 1848. It was the second most visited city in the United States with 55 million local and global tourists, behind the assessed 62.8 million sightseers to New York City in 2017. The University of Illinois College of Medicine at UIC is the second largest medical school in the United States (2,600 students including those at campuses in Peoria, Rockford and Urbana–Champaign).[342]. [203] Chicago also ranks third in the U.S. (behind Las Vegas and Orlando) in number of conventions hosted annually. In the summer of 2016, Navy Pier constructed a DW60 Ferris wheel. Greyhound Lines provides inter-city bus service to and from the city, and Chicago is also the hub for the Midwest network of Megabus (North America). Chicago (USA) Contents: Urbanized Area. Concern for social problems among Chicago's immigrant poor led Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr to found Hull House in 1889. [283] and in 2010 Chicago's murder rate fell to 435 (16.14 per 100,000), a 5% decrease from 2009 and lowest levels since 1965. They have played more games and have more wins than any other team in Major League baseball since 1876. It constitutes the third most populous urban area in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. Civil and criminal law cases are heard in the Cook County Circuit Court of the State of Illinois court system, or in the Northern District of Illinois, in the federal system. From 1989 until May 16, 2011, Chicago was under the leadership of its longest-serving mayor, Richard M. Daley, the son of Richard J. Daley. Above charts are based on data from the U.S. Census American Community Survey | ODN Dataset | API - Notes: 1. When Chicago was incorporated in 1837, it chose the motto Urbs in Horto, a Latin phrase which means "City in a Garden". [233], Chicken Vesuvio is roasted bone-in chicken cooked in oil and garlic next to garlicky oven-roasted potato wedges and a sprinkling of green peas. The break down of how many Black Or African American people live in Chicago, Illinois in 2020, 2019 by gender, age and family size. The least populous of the compared places has a population of 37,567. Many additional diagonal streets were recommended in the Plan of Chicago, but only the extension of Ogden Avenue was ever constructed. [181] since the 20th century Chicago has also been the headquarters of the Assyrian Church of the East. In 2013, Chicago was chosen as one of the "Top Ten Cities in the United States" to visit for its restaurants, skyscrapers, museums, and waterfront, by the readers of Condé Nast Traveler,[223][224] and in 2020 for the fourth year in a row, Chicago was named the top U.S. city tourism destination. Chicago is also home to a number of national radio shows, including Beyond the Beltway with Bruce DuMont on Sunday evenings. The Chicago Sky is a professional basketball team playing in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). His accomplishments included improvements to parks and creating incentives for sustainable development, as well as closing Meigs Field in the middle of the night and destroying the runways. [325] Six of the seven Class I railroads meet in Chicago, with the exception being the Kansas City Southern Railway. The first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was explorer Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. [128][129], A popular tourist activity is to take an architecture boat tour along the Chicago River.[130]. [21] The city was ranked first in the 2018 Time Out City Life Index, a global urban quality of life survey of 15,000 people in 32 cities. Chicago is also featured in a few video games, including Watch Dogs and Midtown Madness, a real-life, car-driving simulation game. Through the 90's Chicago's population has grown by about 4%. [242] T. S. Eliot's first professionally published poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", was first published by Poetry. [28] Henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the eponymous wild "garlic" grew abundantly in the area. In this particular case, the fact that the workers' agreements had expiration dates let the city of Chicago set an expiration date of 2013 for contribution to health benefits for workers who retired after 1989. [62][63], Labor conflicts followed the industrial boom and the rapid expansion of the labor pool, including the Haymarket affair on May 4, 1886, and in 1894 the Pullman Strike. [160], In the 1920s and 1930s, the great majority of African Americans moving to Chicago settled in a so‑called "Black Belt" on the city's South Side. [116], In 2016, Chicago was ranked the sixth-most walkable large city in the United States. The racial composition of the city was: Chicago has a Hispanic or Latino population of 28.9%. It reversed the flow of the Chicago River so that the water flowed away from Lake Michigan rather than into it. [citation needed] Lane is one of the oldest schools in Chicago and in 2012 was designated a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education. Even before then, it was not unheard of for Republican presidential candidates to win handily in downstate Illinois, only to lose statewide due to large Democratic margins in Chicago. [161], The city has seen a rise in population for the 2000 census and is expected to have an increase for the 2020 census. The new DW60 is the first in the United States and is the sixth tallest in the U.S.[221] Chicago was the first city in the world to ever erect a ferris wheel. [277] Violent crime rates vary significantly by area of the city, with more economically developed areas having low rates, but other sections have much higher rates of crime. [30], In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by the Potawatomi, a Native American tribe who had succeeded the Miami and Sauk and Fox peoples in this region.[31]. In 2019, the team announced a move back to Soldier Field. Chicago, IL is home to a population of 2.71M people, from which 89.7% are citizens. 11.26% of residents are not US citizens. [322] Each company was allowed to bring 250 electric scooters, although both Bird and Lime claimed that they experienced a higher demand for their scooters. The region is also prone to severe thunderstorms during the spring and summer which can produce large hail, damaging winds, and occasionally tornadoes. The Illinois Constitution prohibits governments from doing anything that could cause retirement benefits for government workers to be "diminished or impaired." Winters are relatively cold and snowy, although the city typically sees less snow and rain in winter than that experienced in the eastern Great Lakes region; blizzards do occur, as in 2011. Additionally, Chicago is one of the eight cities in the United States to have won championships in the four major professional leagues and, along with Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, is one of five cities to have won soccer championships as well. The Chicago campus of Northwestern University includes the Feinberg School of Medicine; Northwestern Memorial Hospital, which is ranked as the best hospital in the Chicago metropolitan area by U.S. News & World Report for 2017–18;[340] the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly named the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), which is ranked the best U.S. rehabilitation hospital by U.S. News & World Report;[341] the new Prentice Women's Hospital; and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Several medical products and services companies are headquartered in the Chicago area, including Baxter International, Boeing, Abbott Laboratories, and the Healthcare division of General Electric. Estimated population in July 2020: 33,376 (-7.1% change) Males: 21,904 (61.0%), Females: 14,014 (39.0%) Lake County. Chicago was incorporated as a town in 1833 and as a city in 1837, when its population reached 4,000. 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[250][251] They also boast the youngest player to win the NBA Most Valuable Player Award, Derrick Rose, who won it for the 2010–11 season.[252]. [170], Chicago has the third-largest LGBT population in the United States. Illinois is a deepening population sinkhole flanked by states that are adding people, businesses, jobs. Of the area's many colleges and universities, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago are classified as "highest research" doctoral universities. Chicago contains less than 25% of the state's population, but it is split between eight of Illinois' 19 districts in the United States House of Representatives. Former CW affiliate WGN-TV 9, which is owned by the Tribune Media, is carried with some programming differences, as "WGN America" on cable and satellite TV nationwide and in parts of the Caribbean. Unemployed workers, relief recipients, and unpaid schoolteachers held huge demonstrations during the early years of the Great Depression. [291] Jens Ludwig, director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, estimated that shootings cost the city of Chicago $2.5 billion in 2012. The Willis Tower (formerly named Sears Tower) is a popular destination for tourists. Highly regarded universities in Chicago and the surrounding area are: the University of Chicago; Northwestern University; Illinois Institute of Technology; Loyola University Chicago; DePaul University; Columbia College Chicago and University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $670.5 billion according to September 2017 estimates. On June 15, 1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as Receiver of Public Monies. The grid's regularity provided an efficient means of developing new real estate property. It includes nineteen boulevards, eight parks, and six squares, along twenty-six miles of interconnected streets. Many themes are transgressive and derived from the works of authors such as William S. Burroughs. [132], There are preliminary plans to erect a 1:1‑scale replica of Wacław Szymanowski's Art Nouveau statue of Frédéric Chopin found in Warsaw's Royal Baths along Chicago's lakefront in addition to a different sculpture commemorating the artist in Chopin Park for the 200th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's birth. Beginning in January 2019, Newsy began producing 12 of its 14 hours of live news programming per day from its new facility in Chicago. [81] Chicago was also a hotbed of labor activism, with Unemployed Councils contributing heavily in the early depression to create solidarity for the poor and demand relief, these organizations were created by socialist and communist groups. [266] Washington Park is also one of the city's biggest parks; covering nearly 400 acres (160 ha). [259] The boulevards and the parks were authorized by the Illinois legislature in 1869. [295] Walter Payton College Prep High School is ranked number one in the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois. Lincoln was nominated in Chicago for US president at the 1860 Republican National Convention, which was held in Chicago in a temporary building called the Wigwam. The services terminate in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., New York City, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Portland, Seattle, Milwaukee, Quincy, St. Louis, Carbondale, Boston, Grand Rapids, Port Huron, Pontiac, Los Angeles, and San Antonio. [243] In the 1980s, a modern form of poetry performance began in Chicago, the Poetry Slam.[244]. [160], Chicago's population declined in the latter half of the 20th century, from over 3.6 million in 1950 down to under 2.7 million by 2010. The two teams have faced each other in a World Series only once: in 1906, when the White Sox, known as the "Hitless Wonders," defeated the Cubs, 4–2. [190] The Chicago metropolitan area has the third-largest science and engineering work force of any metropolitan area in the nation. Since 2005 Chicago's population has grown by about 1%. They play home games at the Wintrust Arena. Chicago is currently declining at a rate of -0.28% annually and its population has decreased by -0.34% since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 2,695,600 in 2010. The 2016 estimated population of 2.7 million makes Chicago the third largest city in the United States, behind New York City (8.55 million) and Los Angeles (3.97 million). About 18.3% of families and 22.1% of the population lived below the poverty line. [96] Lori Lightfoot, the city's first African American woman mayor and its first openly LGBTQ Mayor, was elected to succeed Emanuel as mayor in 2019. The 6-mile (9.7 km) long Burnham Park stretches along the waterfront of the South Side. [324], Chicago is the largest hub in the railroad industry. It is the commercial and cultural hub of the American Midwest. In 1933 and 1934, the city celebrated its centennial by hosting the Century of Progress International Exposition World's Fair. County Population Estimates: July 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015. It was later rebuilt. [288] Chicago ended 2013 with 415 murders, the lowest number of murders since 1965, and overall crime rates dropped by 16 percent. Parts of this were built, but it was never completed. [76] Continuing racial tensions and violence, such as the Chicago Race Riot of 1919, also occurred. [196] The city of Chicago also hosts 12 Fortune Global 500 companies and 17 Financial Times 500 companies. Chicago is famous for its outdoor public art with donors establishing funding for such art as far back as Benjamin Ferguson's 1905 trust. Chicago as a city is the largest and most populated in the state of Illinois.Going back to the past, around 200 settlers founded the city in the year 1833 and in a few years the population recorded a healthy 4000 individuals living in the city. In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. and Albert Raby led the Chicago Freedom Movement, which culminated in agreements between Mayor Richard J. Daley and the movement leaders. [94] The area was shut down for three days and some buildings did not reopen for weeks; losses were estimated at $1.95 billion. With an estimated completion date of 2020, the Barack Obama Presidential Center will be housed at the University of Chicago in Hyde Park and include both the Obama presidential library and offices of the Obama Foundation.[222]. In the spring of 1937 Republic Steel Works witnessed the Memorial Day massacre of 1937 in the neighborhood of East Side. Today, the Chicago Park District consists of more than 570 parks with over 8,000 acres (3,200 ha) of municipal parkland. Kortmann, Bernd, Kate Burridge, Rajend Mesthrie, Edgar W. Schneider and Clive Upton (eds). Many of the city's financial institutions, such as the CBOT and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, are located within a section of downtown called "The Loop", which is an eight-block by five-block area of city streets that is encircled by elevated rail tracks. [328] CREATE, the Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency Program, comprises about 70 programs, including crossovers, overpasses and underpasses, that intend to significantly improve the speed of freight movements in the Chicago area.[329]. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4, 1837,[39] and for several decades was the world's fastest-growing city. The Kennedy and Dan Ryan Expressways are the busiest state maintained routes in the entire state of Illinois.[316]. [17] The economy of Chicago is diverse, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. [146] Northeast winds from wintertime cyclones departing south of the region sometimes bring the city lake-effect snow.[147]. It is an important component in global distribution, as it is the third-largest inter-modal port in the world after Hong Kong and Singapore. The 1920s saw gangsters, including Al Capone, Dion O'Banion, Bugs Moran and Tony Accardo battle law enforcement and each other on the streets of Chicago during the Prohibition era. Richard M. Daley, son of Richard J. Daley, was elected in 1989. 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