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Chicago, with its location on the Great Lakes and via the St. Lawrence Seaway, is a global port city, giving Cook County an international shipping port. Cook County's population is larger than that of 28 U.S. states and territories, and larger than the population of 11 of the 13 Canadian provinces and territories. [6]
The Consulate General of Canada in Chicago is a Government of Canada diplomatic mission responsible for Canadian interests in the states of Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, northwestern Indiana and the Kansas City metro area. The Consulate General is part of a worldwide network of Canadian diplomatic and trade offices, including more than 15 ...
Chicago, the third-most populous city in the United States, is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area or Chicagoland, as this area is nicknamed. Although the Chicago metropolitan area comprises only 9% of the land area of the state, it contains 65% of the state's residents, with 21.4% of Illinois' population living in the city of Chicago ...
Make room in your cupboard: Christkindlmarket has added two new types of drinkware to its annual keepsake mug tradition this year. For the first time, Chicago’s version of a German open-air ...
[1] [2] [3] It also sells the American Greetings brand and manages its subsidiaries, including Carlton Cards (in Canada and the U.S.). Schurman Retail Group has over 450 retail stores across the United States and Canada [4] [5] [6] It is currently the second-largest American specialty retailer in the greeting card industry. [7]
Founded in 1852 as Premium Mustard Mills in Chicago, it was later acquired by Moritz Plochman [1] (a trained chemist and emigrant from Württemberg). [2] In 1957, it began selling mustard in the now-famous yellow squeeze barrel. It was the first successful squeeze condiment in the United States. Still based in the Chicago area, Plochman's is ...
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Continuing east into the Miller community of Gary, and this is the closest the circle tour comes to the Chicago, South Shore and South Bend Railroad, the last interurban in the United States. Lake Street to the north will take motorists to Lake Michigan and over to Marquette Park, the first dune park along the Indiana Shore.