1. (n.)Chicago a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan: third largest city in the U.S. 2,721,547
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1. (noun)Chicago, Windy City largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of LakeMichigan
1. chicago the metropolis of Illinois, in the NE. of the State, on the SW. shore of Lake Michigan, is the secondcity in the Union; its unparalleled growth, dating only from 1837—in 1832 a mere log-fort, and now covering an area of 180 sq. m., being 21 m. in length and 10 m. in breadth—is due to its matchless facilities for communication. Situated in the heart of the continent, a third of the United States railwaysystem centres in it, and it communicates with all Canada, and with the ocean by the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River; laid out with absolute regularity, it has many magnificent buildings, enormously talloffice "sky-scrapers," and an unrivalled system of parks and avenues; there are a university, medical, commercial, and theological colleges, an art institute, libraries, and observatory; it suffered severely from fire in 1871 and 1874; it is the greatest grain and porkmarket in the world, and its manufactures include almost every variety of production; the population is a mixture of all European peoples; native-born Americans are a small minority, outnumbered by the Germans and almost equalled by the Irish.
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