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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.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Loop and Near North.

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The 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.

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The is the shop-and-awe center of Chicago. It's bounded by North Avenue to the north, the Chicago River to the west and south, and Lake Michigan to the east.

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O'Hare International Airport is one of the biggest and busiest airports in the world. It serves the city of Chicago and the rest of the area, with connecting flights to smaller cities throughout the Midwest.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Hyde Park and Rogers Park.

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is one of Chicago's most famous neighborhoods, most certainly so on the South Side, located along the south lakefront. Having played host to the White City, the University of Chicago, President Obama, the setting for Richard Wright's Native Son, and…

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is the northern border of Chicago — the wild-eyed inheritor of uninhibited lakefront, swamps become beaches, and the beauty of Chicago bricks.

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Lakeview has the lion's share of Chicago's nightlife, starting with Wrigleyville, home of the Chicago Cubs and major players in the city's theater and music scenes, and Boystown, one of the largest and most vibrant LGBT communities in the United States.

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is the vanguard of music, nightlife, and fashion in Chicago. This article also includes the sly, enjoyable Ukrainian Village, immediately south, and pieces of the greater West Town area.

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The of Chicago is far off the beaten path. Plenty of visitors know Midway Airport, but never see anything beyond. Truth be told, there isn't a lot to see.

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In Lincoln Park, collegians mix with freshly-minted lawyers and barrel-chested brokers. All come to seek their good fortune in beer gardens on the north side of Chicago, a short walk from miles of beautiful parks and the fabulous Lincoln Park Zoo.

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The is the home of several of Chicago's main attractions: the splendid Museum Campus, with three world-class natural science museums on the lakefront; Soldier Field, home of the NFL's Chicago Bears; and McCormick Place, the city's massive convention center.

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Uptown is a scruffy, jazz-inflected neighborhood on the north side of Chicago. Within its boundaries, off to the side of the action, are the residential areas of Sheridan Park and Buena Park, and an exciting Southeast Asian community based around Argyle Street.

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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.

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The of Chicago includes the neighborhoods of Avondale and the Polish Village, with large Polish communities; Irving Park and Old Irving, quiet areas with historic homes; and Forest Glen, Jefferson Park, Norwood Park, Edison Park, Edgebrook, Dunning, and Portage Park, residential areas which have nice parks, old theaters, and some big annual festivals.

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Chicago's 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.

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The 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.

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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.

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, the Black Metropolis, is a mecca of African-American History on Chicago's South Side, just miles south of downtown. Gwendolyn Brooks published poetry in the Chicago Defender, Andrew Rube Foster created Negro League Baseball, and Louis Armstrong kept his trumpet singing at the Sunset Cafe to keep Al Capone off his back.

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Only a few minutes from the center of Chicago by train, is a working-class predominantly Mexican-American neighborhood. Marked by riches in art and historic architecture and occupied by a community that's fiercely proud of where they live, this neighborhood is at once distinctly Chicagoan and something entirely unique.

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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.

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Logan Square is an expansive neighborhood with sweeping boulevards on Chicago's West Side. It shares a wealth of dive bars and cheap rock venues with Bucktown, which becomes a high-fashion destination when close to .

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The of Chicago is a huge section of Chicago with only one large tourist draw: the Pullman Historic District. Most travelers will literally just pass over this district on the Chicago Skyway, but look closely and something may catch your eye.

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The 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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Places of Interest

Highlights include Soldier Field and The Field Museum of Natural History.

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is a multi-purpose stadium on the of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Opened in 1924 and reconstructed in 2003, the stadium has served as the home of the Chicago Bears from the National Football League since 1971, as well as Chicago Fire FC of Major League Soccer from 1998 to 2006 and since 2020.

Museum
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, also commonly called the Field Museum, is a private–public natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world.

Park
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is a public park in the community area of Chicago, Illinois, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. The park, opened in July 2004, is a prominent civic center near the city's shoreline that covers a 24.5-acre section of northwestern .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Town and Lincoln Park.

Suburb
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, northwest of the on Chicago's West Side, is one of the city's officially designated community areas. Much of this area was historically part of Polish Downtown, along Western Avenue, which was then the city's western boundary.

Suburb
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is a designated community area on the North Side of Chicago, . It is located west of .

Suburb
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is one of the 77 community areas in Chicago, on the city's South Side, bounded on the north by the of the , on the west by Ashland Avenue, on the south by Pershing Road, on the east by the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, and on the northeast by the Dan Ryan Expressway.

Chicago

Latitude
41.8789° or 41° 52′ 44″ north
Longitude
-87.6358° or 87° 38′ 9″ west
Population
2,750,000
Elevation
587 feet (179 metres)
IATA airport code
CHI
United Nations Location Code
US CHI
Open location code
86HJV9H7+GM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153388690
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
4887398
Wiki­data ID
Q1297
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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: “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”
  • 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, Illinois”
  • German: “Chicago”
  • Gilaki: “شيکاگؤ (ايلينؤی)”
  • Gilaki: “شيکاگؤ”
  • 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: “शिकागॊ”
  • Hindi: “शिकागो”
  • Hungarian: “Chicago”
  • Hungarian: “szelek városa”
  • Hungarian: “Szeles város”
  • Icelandic: “Chicago”
  • Ido: “Chicago”
  • Igbo: “Chicago”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Komering: “Chicago”
  • Korean: “시카고”
  • Kurdish: “Chicago”
  • 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”
  • 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, Illinois”
  • Portuguese: “Chicago”
  • Pushto: “شیکاګو”
  • Quechua: “Chicago”
  • Romanian: “Chicago”
  • Romansh: “Chicago”
  • Rundi: “Chicago”
  • Russia Buriat: “Чикаго”
  • Russian: “Чикаго”
  • Rusyn: “Чикаго”
  • Samogitian: “Čėkaga”
  • 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”
  • Sinhala: “චිකාගෝව”
  • 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, Illinois”
  • Swedish: “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”
  • Tok Pisin: “Chicago”
  • Tok Pisin: “Sikago”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Chicago”
  • Turkish: “Chicago, Illinois”
  • Turkish: “Chicago”
  • Turkish: “Şikago”
  • Turkmen: “Chicago”
  • Turkmen: “Çikago”
  • Twi: “Chicago”
  • Twi: “Kyekago”
  • 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-ca-gô”
  • Vietnamese: “Chicago”
  • Vietnamese: “Chicagô”
  • Vietnamese: “Sicagô”
  • Vlax Romani: “Chicago”
  • Volapük: “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”
  • “Chicago”
  • “Chicago, IL”
  • “Chicago, Illinois”
  • “Čikaga”
  • “ma Sikako”
  • “ma tomo Sikako”
  • “शिकागो”

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