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.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Loop and Near North.
O’Hare International Airport
O'Hare International Airport is one of the biggest and busiest airports in the world.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Hyde Park and Rogers Park.
Wicker Park
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Wicker Park is the vanguard of music, nightlife, and fashion in Chicago.
Lakeview-North Center
Lakeview has the lion's share of Chicago's nightlife…
Lincoln Park-Old Town
In Lincoln Park, collegians mix with freshly-minted lawyers and barrel-chested brokers.
Uptown Chicago
Uptown is a scruffy, jazz-inflected neighborhood on the north side of Chicago.
Logan-Bucktown
Logan Square is an expansive neighborhood with sweeping boulevards on Chicago's West Side.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Soldier Field and The Field Museum of Natural History.
Soldier Field
Soldier Field is a multi-purpose stadium on the Near South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Town and Lincoln Park.
Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States.
Chicago
- City with about 2,750,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 590 feet (180 metres)
- …has the IATA airport code CHI
- Description: city and county seat of Cook County, and largest city in State of Illinois, United States of America
- Postal codes60601-6062660628-6063460636-606476064960651-6065760659-606616066460668-6067060673-606756067760678606806068160684606856068760690606916069360694606976069960701
- Also known as“Chi-Raq”“Chi-Town”“Chicago, IL”“City by the Lake”“City of Broad Shoulders”“City of Chicago”“The Queen of the West”“The Second City”“The Windy City”“Windy City”
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Latitude
41.8789° or 41° 52′ 44″ north
Longitude
-87.6358° or 87° 38′ 9″ west
UN/LOCODE
US CHI
Open location code
86HJV9H7+GM
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Chicago” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Chicago”
- Afrikaans: “Chicago”
- Albanian: “Chicago”
- Albanian: “Çikago”
- Amharic: “ሺካጎ”
- Arabic: “شيكاغو”
- Aragonese: “Chicago”
- Armenian: “Չիկագո”
- Arpitan: “Chicagô”
- Assamese: “চিকাগো”
- Assamese: “বতাহৰ চহৰ”
- Asturian: “Chicago”
- Atikamekw: “Chicago”
- Azerbaijani: “Çikaqo”
- Balinese: “Chicago”
- Bambara: “Chicago”
- Bashkir: “Чикаго”
- Basque: “Chicago”
- Bavarian: “Chicago”
- Belarusian: “Чыкага”
- Bengali: “দ্বিতীয় শহর”
- Bengali: “পশ্চিমের রানী”
- Bengali: “শি-টাউন”
- Bengali: “শিকাগো শহর”
- Bengali: “শিকাগো, ইলিনয়”
- Bengali: “শিকাগো”
- Bengali: “হ্রদের ধারের শহর”
- Bhojpuri: “शिकागो”
- Bislama: “Chicago”
- Bosnian: “Chicago”
- Breton: “Chicago”
- Buginese: “Chicago”
- Bulgarian: “Чикаго”
- Burmese: “ချီကာဂိုမြို့”
- Burmese: “ရှီကာဂိုမြို့”
- Catalan: “Chicago”
- Catalan: “Xicago”
- Cebuano: “Chicago”
- Central Bikol: “Chicago”
- Central Kurdish: “شیکاگۆ”
- Chavacano: “Chicago”
- Chechen: “Чикаго”
- Cherokee: “Chicago”
- Cheyenne: “Chicago”
- Chinese: “芝加哥”
- Chuvash: “Чикаго”
- Cornish: “Chicago, Illinois”
- Cornish: “Chicago”
- Corsican: “Chicago”
- Crimean Tatar: “Çikago”
- Croatian: “Chicago”
- Czech: “Chicago”
- Dagbani: “Chicago”
- Danish: “Chicago”
- Dimli (individual language): “Chicago”
- Dotyali: “शिकागो”
- Dutch: “Chicago”
- Eastern Mari: “Чикаго”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شيكاجو”
- Emilian: “Chicago”
- Erzya: “Чикаго”
- Esperanto: “Chicago”
- Esperanto: “Ĉikago”
- Esperanto: “La Dua Urbo”
- Esperanto: “La Reĝino de la Okcidento”
- Esperanto: “La Venta Urbo”
- Estonian: “Chicago”
- Ewe: “Chicago”
- Extremaduran: “Chicago”
- Faroese: “Chicago”
- Fiji Hindi: “Chicago”
- Fijian: “Chicago”
- Finnish: “Chicago”
- French: “Chicago”
- Friulian: “Chicago”
- Fulah: “Chicago”
- Gagauz: “Chicago”
- Galician: “Chicago”
- Gan Chinese: “芝加哥”
- Georgian: “ჩიკაგო”
- German: “Chicago, IL”
- German: “Chicago, Ill.”
- German: “Chicago”
- Gilaki: “شيکاگؤ (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “شيکاگؤ”
- Gothic: “𐍃𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌲𐍉”
- Gothic: “𐍃𐌾𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌲𐍉”
- Gothic: “𐍄𐍃𐌾𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌲𐍉”
- Greek: “Σικάγο”
- Guarani: “Chikago”
- Guianese Creole French: “Chicago”
- Gujarati: “શિકાગો”
- Haitian: “Chikago”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chi-kâ-kô”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chicago”
- Hausa: “Chicago”
- Hawaiian: “Kikako, ʻIlinoe”
- Hawaiian: “Kikako”
- Hebrew: “שיקגו”
- Hindi: “शिकागो”
- Hungarian: “Chicago”
- Hungarian: “szelek városa”
- Hungarian: “Szeles város”
- Icelandic: “Chicago”
- Ido: “Chicago”
- Igbo: “Chicago”
- Iloko: “Chicago”
- Inari Sami: “Chicago”
- 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”
- Japanese: “風の街”
- Javanese: “Chicago, Illinois”
- Kabyle: “Chicago”
- Kalaallisut: “Chicago”
- Kalmyk: “Чикаго”
- Kannada: “ಶಿಕಾಗೊ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Chikago”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Shikago”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Чикаго”
- Kashmiri: “شِکاگو”
- Kazakh: “Батыс патшайымы”
- Kazakh: “Желді қала”
- Kazakh: “Чикаго”
- Kikuyu: “Chicago”
- Kildin Sami: “Чикаго”
- Kirghiz: “Чикаго”
- Kölsch: “Chicago”
- Komering: “Chicago”
- Korean: “시카고”
- Kurdish: “Chicago”
- Kurdish: “Şîkago”
- Ladin: “Chicago”
- Ladino: “Chicago”
- Latin: “Chicagia”
- Latin: “Chicagum”
- Latin: “Sicagia”
- Latin: “Sicagum”
- Latvian: “Čikāga”
- Ligurian: “Chicago”
- Limburgan: “Chicago”
- Lingala: “Chicago”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Chicago”
- Literary Chinese: “芝加哥”
- Lithuanian: “Čikaga”
- Livvi: “Chicago”
- Lombard: “Chicago”
- Low German: “Chicago”
- Lower Sorbian: “Chicago”
- Luxembourgish: “Chicago”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Chicago”
- Macedonian: “Чикаго”
- Malagasy: “Chicago”
- Malay: “Chicago”
- Malay: “شيکاݢو”
- Malayalam: “ഷിക്കാഗോ”
- Maltese: “Chicago”
- Manx: “Chicago”
- Maori: “Chicago”
- Maori: “Hikāko”
- Marathi: “शिकागो”
- Mazanderani: “شیکاگو”
- Mesopotamian Arabic: “شيكاگو”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Chicago”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Ciĕ-gă-gŏ̤”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chicago”
- Mingrelian: “ჩიკაგო”
- Mirandese: “Chicago”
- Moksha: “Чикага”
- Moksha: “Чикаго”
- Mongolian: “Чикаго”
- Moroccan Arabic: “شيكاڭو”
- Nauru: “Chicago”
- Navajo: “Shikááʼgóó”
- Neapolitan: “Chicago”
- Nepali: “शिकागो”
- Nepali: “सिकागो”
- Newari: “शिकागो”
- Northern Frisian: “Chicago”
- Northern Sami: “Chicago”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chicago”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chicago”
- Norwegian: “Chicago”
- Novial: “Chicago”
- Nyanja: “Chicago”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chicago”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܫܝܩܓܘ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wīleacburg”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wīleacstede”
- Ossetian: “Чикаго”
- Pampanga: “Chicago”
- Pangasinan: “Chicago”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਿਕਾਗੋ”
- Papiamento: “Chicago”
- Pennsylvania German: “Chicago”
- Persian: “شیکاگو”
- Pfaelzisch: “Chicago”
- Picard: “Chicago”
- Piemontese: “Chicago”
- Pite Sami: “Chicago”
- Polish: “Chicago”
- Portuguese: “Chicago, IL”
- Portuguese: “Chicago”
- Pushto: “شیکاګو”
- Quechua: “Chicago”
- Romanian: “Chicago”
- Romansh: “Chicago”
- Rundi: “Chicago”
- Russia Buriat: “Чикаго”
- Russian: “Чикаго”
- Rusyn: “Чикаго”
- Samogitian: “Čėkaga”
- Samogitian: “Čikaga”
- Sango: “Chicago”
- Santali: “ᱥᱤᱠᱟᱜᱳ”
- Sardinian: “Chicago”
- Saterfriesisch: “Chicago”
- Scots: “Chicago”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Chicago”
- Serbian: “Чикаго”
- Serbian: “Шикаго”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chicago”
- Shona: “Chicago”
- Sicilian: “Chicagu”
- Silesian: “Chicago”
- Sindhi: “شڪاگو”
- Sinhala: “චිකාගොව”
- Sinhala: “චිකාගෝ”
- Skolt Sami: “Chicago”
- Slovak: “Chicago”
- Slovenian: “Chicago”
- Slovenian: “Čikago*”
- Slovenian: “Mesto širokih ramen”
- Slovenian: “Vetrovno mesto”
- Somali: “Chicago”
- South Azerbaijani: “شیکاقو”
- Southern Sotho: “Chicago”
- Spanish: “Chicago (Illinois)”
- Spanish: “Chicago”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Chicago”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Hombros Anchos”
- Spanish: “Ciudad Junto al Lago”
- Spanish: “La Ciudad Ventosa”
- Spanish: “La Reina de Occidente”
- Spanish: “La Segunda Ciudad”
- Sranan Tongo: “Chicago”
- Swahili: “Chicago”
- Swedish: “Chicago”
- Swiss German: “Chicago”
- Tachelhit: “Cikagu”
- 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”
- Thai: “ไชทาวน์”
- Thai: “นครแห่งแรงลม”
- Tok Pisin: “Chicago”
- Tok Pisin: “Sikago”
- Turkish: “Chicago”
- Turkish: “Şikago”
- Turkmen: “Chicago”
- Turkmen: “Çikago”
- Twi: “Chicago”
- Twi: “Kyekago”
- Tyap: “Shikago”
- 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: “Chi Gia Kha”
- Vietnamese: “Chi-ca-gô”
- Vietnamese: “Sicagô”
- Vlax Romani: “Chicago”
- Volapük: “Chicago”
- Võro: “Chicago”
- Walloon: “Tchicago”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chicago”
- Welsh: “Chicago”
- Western Armenian: “Շիքակօ”
- Western Frisian: “Chicago”
- Western Mari: “Чикаго”
- Western Panjabi: “شکاگو”
- Wu Chinese: “契卡格”
- Wu Chinese: “芝加哥”
- Xhosa: “E-Chicago”
- Yakut: “Чикаго”
- Yiddish: “שיקאגא”
- Yoruba: “Ṣìkágò”
- Yue Chinese: “芝加哥”
- Zeeuws: “Chicago”
- Zhuang: “Cihgyahgoh”
- Zulu: “Chicago”
- “ma Sikako”
- “ma tomo Sikako”
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