Chicago USA

Description: 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 in the 2020 census, it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the seat of Cook County, the second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area.

Population: 2,746,388

Demographics: According to the most recent ACS, the racial composition of Chicago was: White: 42.41%, Black or African American: 28.81%, Other race: 11.3%, Two or more races: 9.7%, Asian: 7.01%, Native American: 0.73%, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.05%.

History: In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by the Potawatomi, an indigenous tribe who had succeeded the Miami and Sauk and Fox peoples in this region. The first known permanent settler in Chicago was trader Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African descent, perhaps born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti), and established the settlement in the 1780s. On August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 6,000 people. On June 15, 1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as Receiver of Public Monies. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4, 1837, and for several decades was the world’s fastest-growing city. Chicago’s flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Europe and migrants from the Eastern United States. Of the total population in 1900, more than 77% were either foreign-born or born in the United States of foreign parentage. Germans, Irish, Poles, Swedes, and Czechs made up nearly two-thirds of the foreign-born population (by 1900, whites were 98.1% of the city’s population). During World War I and the 1920s there was a major expansion in industry. The availability of jobs attracted African Americans from the Southern United States. Between 1910 and 1930, the African American population of Chicago increased dramatically, from 44,103 to 233,903. During World War II, the city of Chicago alone produced more steel than the United Kingdom every year from 1939 – 1945, and more than Nazi Germany from 1943 – 1945. The Great Migration, which had been on pause due to the Depression, resumed at an even faster pace in the second wave, as hundreds of thousands of blacks from the South arrived in the city to work in the steel mills, railroads, and shipping yards. In 1983 Harold Washington became the first black mayor of Chicago. Washington’s first term in office directed attention to poor and previously neglected minority neighborhoods.

Elevation: 182 m

Climate: Hot-summer humid continental climate. The average annual temperature in Chicago is 10 C (50 F), the average for July is 23 C (73 F), the average for January is -6 C (21 F).

Attractions: The Art Institute of Chicago, Millennium Park, Chicago Architecture Center, Museum of Science And Industry, Magnificent Mile, Wrigley Field, Skydeck Chicago

Airports: Chicago O’Hare International Airport ORD, Chicago Midway International Airport MDW

Distance To City Centre: 44 km

Commute Length: 50 min

Average Transportation Cost: 75 USD

Traffic Hours: 6 am – 8 am, 4 pm – 6 pm