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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.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) operates public schools serving the community. [7] Ogden International School of Chicago has its East Campus, which houses elementary school, [8] in the Gold Coast. [9] Residents of the Gold Coast are zoned to Ogden School for grades K-8, [10] while for high school they are zoned to Lincoln Park High School. [11]
The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, [3] [4] mostly surrounded by the North American continent. [5] It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo; and on the ...
The city and its surrounding metropolitan area contain the third-largest labor pool in the United States with about 4.63 million workers. [209] Illinois is home to 66 Fortune 1000 companies, including those in Chicago. [210] The city of Chicago also hosts 12 Fortune Global 500 companies and 17 Financial Times 500 companies.
It’s been named the Gulf of Mexico for over four centuries, but the name actually refers to a city named Mexico from Spanish colonization, a professor at Florida Atlantic University explained.
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.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, Google said in an X post on ...
In 2010, late-night comedian Stephen Colbert spookily made the quip during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill should be renamed as the Gulf of America stating “I don’t think we can call it the Gulf ...