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.Popular Destinations
Loop
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. Photo: Poco a poco, CC BY-SA 3.0.O'Hare International Airport
O'Hare International Airport is one of the biggest and busiest airports in the world. Photo: N i c o l a, CC BY 2.0.Rogers Park
Rogers Park is the northern border of Chicago — the wild-eyed inheritor of uninhibited lakefront, swamps become beaches, and the beauty of Chicago bricks. Photo: Jdsteakley, CC BY-SA 3.0.Notable Places in the Area
The Field Museum
Museum
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. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Chicago "L"
Tourism location
The Chicago "L" is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of Illinois. Photo: lazytom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Soldier Field
Stadium
Soldier Field is an American football and soccer stadium located in the Near South Side of Chicago, Illinois, near Downtown Chicago. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Millennium Park
Park
Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and managed by MB Real Estate.
Destinations
Hyde Park
Hyde Park is one of Chicago's most famous neighborhoods, most certainly so on the South Side, located along the south lakefront. Photo: Urbanrules, CC BY-SA 3.0.Lakeview-North Center
Lakeview has the lion's share of Chicago's nightlife, starting with Wrigleyville, home of the… Photo: Niklas Hellerstedt, CC BY 2.0.Wicker Park
Wicker Park is the vanguard of music, nightlife, and fashion in Chicago. Photo: Victorgrigas, Public domain.Lincoln Park-Old Town
For other places with the same name, see Lincoln Park . Photo: AndrewHorne, CC BY-SA 3.0.Near South
The Near South is the home of several of Chicago's main attractions: the splendid Museum Campus… Photo: chicagogeek, CC BY-SA 2.0.Bridgeport-Chinatown
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. Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 4.0.Uptown Chicago
Uptown is a scruffy, jazz-inflected neighborhood on the north side of Chicago. Photo: pdomara, CC BY 2.0.North Lincoln
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. Photo: Richie Diesterheft, CC BY 2.0.Near West Side
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. Photo: pgoyette, CC BY-SA 2.0.Far West Side
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. Photo: Teemu008, CC BY-SA 2.0.Far Northwest Side
The Far Northwest Side of Chicago includes the neighborhoods of Avondale and the Polish Village… Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.Chatham-South Shore
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. Photo: zol87, CC BY-SA 2.0.Pilsen
Only a few minutes from the center of Chicago by train, Pilsen is a working-class predominantly Mexican-American neighborhood. Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.Logan-Bucktown
Logan Square is an expansive neighborhood with sweeping boulevards on Chicago's West Side. Photo: Jeff Hottinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.Bronzeville
Bronzeville, the Black Metropolis, is a mecca of African-American History on Chicago's South Side, just miles south of downtown. Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.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. Photo: vxla, CC BY 2.0.Far Southwest Side
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. Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.Localities in the Area
West Town
Suburb
West Town, located in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois, northwest of the Loop, on Chicago's West Side is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas. Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lincoln Park
Suburb
Lincoln Park is a designated community area on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. Photo: Thshriver, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bridgeport
Suburb
Bridgeport is one of the 77 Community areas in Chicago. Photo: Victorgrigas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chicago
- Type: City
- Description: city and county seat of Cook County, Illinois, United States
- Categories: city of the United States, city with millions of inhabitants and big city
- Location: Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North 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
Latitude 41.8789° or 41° 52' 43.9" north | Longitude -87.6358° or 87° 38' 8.9" west |
Population 2,700,000 | IATA airport code CHI |
United Nations Location Code US CHI | Elevation 587 feet (179 metres) |
OpenStreetMap ID node 153388690 | GeoNames ID 4887398 |
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Also Known As
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- Afar: Shikago
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- Akan: Chicago
- Albanian: Chicago
- Albanian: Çikago
- Amharic: ሺካጎ
- Arabic: Chicago
- Arabic: شيكاغو
- Aragonese: Chicago
- Armenian: Շիքակօ
- Armenian: Չիկագո
- Arpitan: Chicago
- Arpitan: Chicagô
- Assamese: চিকাগো
- Assamese: বতাহৰ চহৰ
- Asturian: Chicago, Illinois
- Asturian: Chicago
- Azerbaijani: Çikaqo
- Bambara: Chicago
- Basque: Chicago
- Bavarian: Chicago
- Belarusian: Чыкага
- Bengali: শিকাগো
- Bhojpuri: शिकागो
- Bislama: Chicago
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- Bulgarian: Чикаго
- Burmese: ရှီကာဂိုမြို့
- Catalan: Chicago, Illinois
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- Catalan: Xicago
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- Central Kurdish: شیکاگۆ
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- Chechen: Чикаго
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- Chinese: Chicago
- Chinese: 芝加哥
- Chuvash: Чикаго
- Cornish: Chicago, Illinois
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- Crimean Tatar: Çikago
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- Egyptian Arabic: شيكاجو
- English: Chi-Raq
- English: Chi-Town
- English: Chicago, IL
- English: Chicago, Illinois
- English: Chitown
- 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
- Erzya: Чикаго
- Esperanto: Chicago, Illinois
- Esperanto: Chicago
- Esperanto: La Dua Urbo
- Esperanto: La Reĝino de la Okcidento
- Esperanto: La Venta Urbo
- Esperanto: Ĉikago
- Estonian: Chicago
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- Finnish: Chicago, Illinois
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- French: Chicago
- French: Chicago, Illinois
- French: Windy City (« La ville des vents »)
- Friulian: Chicago
- Gagauz: Chicago
- Galician: Chicago
- Gan Chinese: 芝加哥
- Georgian: ჩიკაგო
- German: Chicago
- German: Chicago, Illinois
- Gothic: 𐍃𐌾𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌲𐍉
- Gothic: 𐍄𐍃𐌾𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌲𐍉
- Greek: Σικάγο
- Guarani: Chikago
- Gujarati: શિકાગો
- Haitian: Chikago
- Hakka Chinese: Chi-kâ-kô
- Hakka Chinese: Chicago
- 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
- Ido: Chicago
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- Iloko: Chicago
- Inari Sami: Chicago
- Indonesian: Chicago
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Chicago
- Interlingue: Chicago
- Inuktitut: ᓰᖄᑯ
- Irish: Chicago, Illinois
- Irish: Chicago
- Italian: Chicago
- Jamaican Creole English: Chikaago
- Japanese: シカゴ
- Javanese: Chicago, Illinois
- Kabyle: Chicago
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- Kalmyk: Chicago
- Kannada: ಶಿಕಾಗೊ
- Kara-Kalpak: Shikago
- Karachay-Balkar: Чикаго
- Kazakh: Батыс патшайымы
- Kazakh: Желді қала
- Kazakh: Чикаго
- Kikuyu: Chicago
- Kirghiz: Чикаго
- Korean: 시카고
- Kurdish: Chicago
- Ladino: Chicago
- Lao: Chicago
- Latin: Sicagum
- Latvian: Čikāga
- Ligurian: Chicago
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- Lingala: Chicago
- Lingua Franca Nova: Chicago
- Lithuanian: Čikaga
- Livvi: Chicago
- Lombard: Chicago
- Low German: Chicago
- Lower Sorbian: Chicago
- Luxembourgish: Chicago
- Macedo-Romanian: Chicago
- Macedonian: Чикаго
- Malagasy: Chicago
- Malay: Chicago
- Malayalam: ഷിക്കാഗോ
- Manx: Chicago
- Maori: Chicago
- Marathi: शिकागो
- Mazanderani: شیکاگو
- Min Dong Chinese: Chicago
- Min Dong Chinese: Ciĕ-gă-gŏ̤
- Min Nan Chinese: Chicago
- Mingrelian: ჩიკაგო
- Mirandese: Chicago
- Mongolian: Чикаго
- Nauru: Chicago
- Navajo: Shikááʼgóó
- Neapolitan: Chicago
- Nepali: शिकागो
- Newari: शिकागो
- Northern Frisian: Chicago
- Northern Sami: Chicago
- Norwegian: Chicago
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chicago
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Chicago
- Novial: Chicago
- Occitan (post 1500): Chicago
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܫܝܩܓܘ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Chicago
- Ossetian: Чикаго
- Pampanga: Chicago
- Pangasinan: Chicago
- Panjabi: ਸ਼ਿਕਾਗੋ
- Papiamento: Chicago
- Pennsylvania German: Chicago
- Persian: شیکاگو
- Pfaelzisch: Chicago
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- Piemontese: Chicago
- Polish: Chicago
- Portuguese: Chicago
- Pushto: شیکاګو
- 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
- Sinhala: චිකාගොව
- Sinhala: චිකාගෝව
- Slovak: Chicago
- Slovenian: Chicago
- Somali: Chicago
- South Azerbaijani: شیکاقو
- Southern Sotho: Chicago
- Spanish: Chicago
- Sranan Tongo: Chicago
- Swahili: Chicago
- Swedish: Chicago, Illinois
- Swedish: Chicago
- Swiss German: Chicago
- Tagalog: Chicago
- Tagalog: Tsikago
- Tahitian: Chicago
- Tajik: Чикаго
- Tamil: சிகாகோ
- Tamil: ஷிகாகோ
- Tatar: Çikago
- Tatar: Чикаго
- Telugu: చికాగో
- Tetum: Chicago
- Thai: ชิคาโก
- Tok Pisin: Chicago
- 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
- Upper Sorbian: Chicago
- Urdu: شکاگو
- Urdu: شکاگو، الینوائے
- 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
- Zulu: Chicago
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