Bibliography of Chicago

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Bibliography of Chicago

• uspopulation2020.com

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Tables of Content

• Geography
• Demography
• Economy
• Culture
• Sports
• Population
• Education
• Media
• Transportation
• Source

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• Chicago's present natural geography is a result
  of the large glaciers of the Ice Age, namely the
  Wisconsinan Glaciations that carved out the
  modern basin of Lake Michigan.
• One special feature of the Chicago area was the
  now-vanished Mud Lake in the Des Plaines River
  watershed. During heavy periods of rain or when
  the Des Plaines overflowed its banks due to
  downstream ice dams in the early spring.

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Demography

• During its first century as a city, Chicago grew
  at a rate that ranked among the fastest growing
  in the world. Within the span of forty years, the
  city's population grew from slightly under 30,000
  to over 1 million by 1890. By the close of the
  19th century, Chicago was the fifth largest city
  in the world. Within fifty years of the Great
  Chicago Fire of 1871, the population had tripled
  to over 3 million.

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Economy

• Chicago and its suburbs, which together comprise
  the Chicago Metropolitan Area, is home to 36
  Fortune 500 companies and is a transportation and
  distribution center. Manufacturing, printing,
  publishing, insurance, transportation, financial
  trading services, and food processing also play
  major roles in the city's economy.
• The total economic output of Chicago in gross
  metropolitan product totaled US703.9 billion in
  making Chicago equivalent to the 20th largest
  economy in the world just surpassing the total
  economic output of Switzerland.

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• The culture of Chicago, Illinois is known for the
  invention or significant advancement of several
  performing arts, including improvisational
  comedy, house music, blues, hip hop, gospel,
  jazz, and soul.
• The city is known for its Chicago School and
  Prairie School architecture. It continues to
  cultivate a strong tradition of classical music,
  popular music, dance, and performing arts, rooted
  in Western civilization, as well as other
  traditions carried forward by its
  African-American, Asian-American, European
  American, Hispanic American, and Native American
  citizens.

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Sports

• Sports in Chicago include many professional
  sports teams. Chicago is one of ten U.S. cities
  to have teams from the five major American
  professional team sports (baseball, football,
  basketball, hockey, soccer). Chicago has been
  named as the Best Sports City by Sporting News
  three times in 1993, 2006 and 2010.
• Chicago was a candidate city for the 2016 Summer
  Olympics but lost to Rio de Janeiro.Chicago also
  hosted the 1959 Pan American Games, the 2006 Gay
  Games, as well as the 1968 and 1970 Special
  Olympics Summer World Games. Chicago was the host
  of the 2017 Warrior Games.

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Population

• To look at the population of Chicago in 2020, the
  population figures for the previous 5 years need
  to be checked. They are as follows
• 2015 2.699 Million
• 2016 2.702 Million
• 2017 2.703 Million
• 2018 2.7388 Million
• 2019 2.74936 Million
• The population of Chicago in 2020 as per
  estimates 2.759432 Million.

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Education

• Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is the governing
  body of the school district that contains over
  600 public elementary and high schools citywide,
  including several selective-admission magnet
  schools.
• Top universities in Chicago are the University
  of Chicago Illinois Institute of Technology
  Loyola University Chicago DePaul University
  Columbia College Chicago and University of
  Illinois at Chicago.

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Media

• The Chicago metropolitan area (the Chicago
  Market) commands the third-largest media market
  in the United States after New York City and Los
  Angeles and the largest inland market.1 All of
  the major U.S. television networks have
  subsidiaries in Chicago. WGN-TV, which is owned
  by the Tribune Media Company, is carried (with
  some programming differences) as "WGN America" on
  cable and satellite nationwide
• Sun-Times Media Group is also headquartered in
  Chicago, which, along with Tribune Publishing,
  are some the largest owners of daily newspapers
  in the country.

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Transportation

• Chicago, Illinois is the third-largest city in
  the United States and a major transportation hub
  for the Midwest. The city is served by two major
  airports, and is the main freight rail hub of
  North America.
• Surface transportation networks and public ways
  within the city are the responsibility of the
  Chicago Department of Transportation. Mass
  transit in much of the Chicago metropolitan area
  is managed through the Regional Transportation
  Authority (RTA), which was installed by
  referendum in 1974.

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Source

• https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago
• Population of Chicago in 2020