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At the end of the 19th century, Chicago was the 5th-most populous city in the world, [161] and the largest of the cities that did not exist at the dawn of the century. Within sixty years of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the population went from about 300,000 to over 3 million, [ 162 ] and reached its highest ever recorded population of 3.6 ...
[122] [121] The name "Virgin Islands of the United States" (U.S. Virgin Islands) was adopted in 1917 when the islands were purchased by the U.S. from Denmark. [123] [note 4] United States Minor Outlying Islands: Various: Various: Various: The name "United States Minor Outlying Islands" started to be used in 1986. [124]
This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States
The Chicago Cubs win their first World Series; 1908 The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the second year in a row; Binga Bank in business. [36] 1909: Burnham's Plan of Chicago presented. [20] 1910: Population: 2,185,283. [1] [37] July 1: Comiskey Park opened (originally called White Sox Park). December 22: Chicago Union Stock Yards fire (1910)
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, the third-most populous city in the United States, is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area or Chicagoland, as this area is nicknamed. Although the Chicago metropolitan area comprises only 9% of the land area of the state, it contains 65% of the state's residents, with 21.4% of Illinois' population living in the city of Chicago ...
Places named for people can be found at List of places in the United States named after people. Some places have an indeterminate etymology, where it is known that they are named after a city in a particular country, but there is more than one place with that name and the etymology does not distinguish which one.
The city, situated on a prominent bend along the Mississippi River, quickly grew to 12,000 inhabitants and was for a time rivaling for the title of largest city in Illinois. By the early 1840s, the Latter Day Saints built a large stone temple in Nauvoo , one of the largest buildings in Illinois at the time, which was completed in 1846.