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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.
City of Chicago decided; overturns city handgun ban. [61] Chicago Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup. City of Chicago Data Portal launched. Population: 2,695,598. [70] 2011 February 2: 900 cars abandoned on Lake Shore Drive due to Blizzard. March 30: Last of Cabrini Green towers torn down. Rahm Emanuel becomes mayor. Population: 8,707,120; metro ...
As the seat of Cook County, the second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents. Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications, and transportation.
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census , it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles .
The political environment in Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s let organized crime flourish to the point that many Chicago policemen earned more money from pay-offs than from the city. Before the 1930s, the Democratic Party in Chicago was divided along ethnic lines - the Irish, Polish, Italian, and other groups each controlled politics in their ...
Chicago Railroad Fair; Chicago Relief and Aid Society; Chicago Seven; Chicago Surface Lines; Chicago Technical College; Chicago Tunnel Company; ChicagoFest; Chinaman (politics) History of Chinese Americans in Chicago; Chopin Plaza; City Club of Chicago; Coalition of Labor Union Women; Coey-Mitchell Automobile Company; Commercial Club of Chicago ...
Aug. 15, 1977: King Tut’s reign in Chicago ends More than 1.3 million people — at a rate of more than 1,000 per hour — viewed the King Tut exhibit while it was in Chicago.
The Encyclopedia of Chicago is a historical reference work covering Chicago and the entire Chicago metropolitan area published by the University of Chicago Press. Released in October 2004, the work is the result of a ten-year collaboration between the Newberry Library and the Chicago Historical Society .