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Geography of Chicago and surrounding counties. Satellite image of Chicago, October, 2018. The city of Chicago is located in northern Illinois, United States, at the south western tip of Lake Michigan.
Chicago was the location of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929, when Al Capone sent men to gun down members of a rival gang, North Side, led by Bugs Moran. [73] Chicago tenants picket against rent increases (March 1920)
The Brookfield Zoo (managed by the Chicago Zoological Society) and the Chicago Botanic Garden (managed by the Chicago Horticultural Society) are located in the forest preserves. Cook County is the fifth-largest employer in Chicago. [29] In March 2008, the County Board increased the sales tax by one percent to 1.75 percent.
The Chicago MSA, now defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as the Chicago–Naperville–Elgin, IL–IN–WI Metropolitan Statistical Area, is the third-largest MSA by population in the United States. The 2022 census estimate for the population of the MSA was 9,441,957.
Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chicago's Chinatown St. Simeon Mirotočivi, a Serbian Orthodox church located in East Side Greektown Fiesta Boricua on Paseo Boricua in Humboldt Park The Robie House in Hyde Park is a Frank Lloyd Wright design. The Gateway Theatre's Solidarity Tower in Jefferson Park is a replica of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
University of Chicago Lab School, affiliated with the University of Chicago, is a private school located there. [64] Landmarks. Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House.
It is the seventh building to serve as Chicago's city hall, the fourth built at its location, and the third shared by the governments of Chicago and Cook County. [10] [11] Its location has served as the seat of the city and county governments since 1853, except for a period from 1871—when the Great Chicago Fire destroyed the building—to 1885.
Chicago Union Station is an intercity and commuter rail terminal located in the West Loop neighborhood of the Near West Side of Chicago. Amtrak 's flagship station in the Midwest , Union Station is the terminus of eight national long-distance routes and eight regional corridor routes.