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The city and its surrounding metropolitan area contain the third-largest labor pool in the United States with about 4.63 million workers. [208] Illinois is home to 66 Fortune 1000 companies, including those in Chicago. [209] The city of Chicago also hosts 12 Fortune Global 500 companies and 17 Financial Times 500 companies.
Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history. Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe, especially Jews, Poles, and Italians, along with many smaller groups.
Chicago incorporated as a city. [1] Chicago receives its first charter. [3] Rush Medical College is founded two days before the city was chartered. It is the first medical school in the state of Illinois which is still operating. The remaining 450 Potawatomi left Chicago. 1840
The University of Chicago was an entirely new university founded in 1891, using the same name as a defunct school founded in the 1850s which closed in 1886. See Old University of Chicago . Supporters of a new university raised money, selected a new campus in Hyde Park, and opened its doors in 1890.
Gladys Park is also named for her. Another city street, Langley Avenue, and city park is named for another relative, Esther Gunderson Langley. [24] Grace Street Named after the Lutheran Chicago Theological Seminary [25] (1890-1908) located at Clark/Addison to Grace/Sheffield. It is located at 3800 north and just north of Wrigley Field.
"The City that Works" – slogan from Richard J. Daley's tenure as mayor, describing Chicago as a blue-collar, hard-working city, which ran relatively smoothly [24] " Heart of America " – Chicago is one of the largest transportation centers in America, and its location was once near the center of the United States.
From about 10,000 BCE, Paleo-Indians and later Archaic-Indians lived as communities of hunter-gatherers in the area that covers the modern-day southern United States. [4] [5] Approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, the Mississippi River Delta was populated by tribes of the Mississippian culture, a mound-building Native American people who had developed in the late Woodland Indian period.