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Chicago (: Chicagoland
Chicago (: Chicagoland
/ko/ or /ko/) is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los
Angeles. With 2.7 million residents,[1] it is the most populous city in both theU.S. state of Illinois and the American Midwest. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called Chicagoland, is home to 9.5 million people and is thethird-largest in the United States.[2]Chicago is the seat of Cook County.[n 1] Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between theGreat Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, and experienced rapid growth in the mid-nineteenth century.[6]Today, the city is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry,