Chicago The Third Largest City
Chicago is the third largest city in the United States and the metropolis is home to over 8 million people. Chicago covers over 200 sq mi (520 sq km); it extends more than 20 mi (32 km) along the lakefront, then sprawls inland to the west. Its metropolitan area stretches in the north to the Wisconsin border and in the south to industrial suburbs on and beyond the Indiana border
The city is the commercial, financial, industrial, and cultural center for a vast region and a mid-continental shipping point to different parts of the world. A major Great Lakes port, it is also an historic rail and highway hub. O'Hare International Airport is the second busiest in the nation. The city is a manufacturing and industrial hub for a wide variety of goods. Chicago is home to the largest grain mills and elevators, iron- and steelworks, steel fabricators, and meatpacking, food-processing, chemical, machinery, and electronics plants in the USA.
Apart from industry, publishing is also big in Chicago. Chicago Tribune is among the most widely read and respected newspapers in the country.
The expressways and boulevards, it's elevated (partly underground) railways that extend into the heart of the city, making a huge rectangle, the celebrated Loop, which gives its name to the downtown section make transport easy and fast in this great City.
Living in Chicago is still much more affordable than many other cities in the country
The city is the commercial, financial, industrial, and cultural center for a vast region and a mid-continental shipping point to different parts of the world. A major Great Lakes port, it is also an historic rail and highway hub. O'Hare International Airport is the second busiest in the nation. The city is a manufacturing and industrial hub for a wide variety of goods. Chicago is home to the largest grain mills and elevators, iron- and steelworks, steel fabricators, and meatpacking, food-processing, chemical, machinery, and electronics plants in the USA.
Apart from industry, publishing is also big in Chicago. Chicago Tribune is among the most widely read and respected newspapers in the country.
The expressways and boulevards, it's elevated (partly underground) railways that extend into the heart of the city, making a huge rectangle, the celebrated Loop, which gives its name to the downtown section make transport easy and fast in this great City.
Living in Chicago is still much more affordable than many other cities in the country
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