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Module:Location map/data/United States Chicago metropolitan area is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Chicago metropolitan area. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
The Chicago metropolitan area represents about 3 percent of the entire US population. Chicagoland has one of the world's largest and most diversified economies. With more than six million full and part-time employees, the Chicago metropolitan area is a key factor of the Illinois economy, as the state has an annual GDP of over $1 trillion. [7]
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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 ...
This category is for geographical stub articles relating to the Chicago metropolitan area, as defined to be the Illinois counties in the Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City Consolidated Statistical Area: Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will. You can help by expanding them.
After the community areas were introduced, the University of Chicago Press published data sorted by them from the 1920 and 1930 Censuses, [1] as well as a citywide 1934 census to help collect data related to the Great Depression, [2] in what was known as the Local Community Fact Book. [1]
The Illinois Central West Line from present-day Millennium Station to Addison, Illinois, (closed 1931), Pennsylvania Railroad line to Valparaiso, Indiana, (closed 1935), New York Central line from LaSalle Street Station to Elkhart, Indiana, (closed 1964), and four Chicago & North Western lines to St. Charles, Aurora, Freeport, and Kenosha ...
Chicago metropolitan area geography stubs (1 C, 229 P) Pages in category "Chicago metropolitan area" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 271 total.