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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.
Chicago's present natural geography is a result of the large glaciers of the Ice Age, namely the Wisconsinan Glaciation that carved out the modern basin of Lake Michigan (which formed from the glacier's meltwater). The city of Chicago itself sits on the Chicago Plain, a flat plain that was once the bottom of ancestral Lake Chicago. This plain ...
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) [12] is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side , near the shore of Lake Michigan about 7 miles (11 km) from the Loop .
Toggle Geography subsection. 3.1 Topography. ... Chicago is a major destination for tourism, ... The University of Chicago's Institute for the Study of Ancient ...
Barrows matriculated to University of Chicago where he graduated with a B.S. degree in 1903. [2] He attended graduate school at the same institution during 1903–1906, studying in the newly-formed department of geography – the first in the nation. [3] During 1904–1907 he was an assistant in geology at the University of Chicago.
Mallinckrodt College (1916–1991, Wilmette), merged with Loyola University Chicago [4] [5] Mundelein College (1930–1991, Chicago) merged with Loyola University of Chicago [6] Old University of Chicago (1856–1886, Chicago) Robert Morris University Illinois (1913–2020, Chicago), merged into Roosevelt University in 2020
Chicago geography stubs (57 P) Pages in category "Geography of Chicago" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
The Social Science Research Committee at the University of Chicago defined the community areas in the 1920s based on neighborhoods or groups of related neighborhoods within the city. In this effort it was led by sociologists Robert E. Park and Ernest Burgess , who believed that physical contingencies created areas that would inevitably form a ...