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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago 00:03:54 1 Etymology and nicknames 00:05:01 2 History 00:05:10 2.1 Beginnings 00:06:19 2.2 Founding and 19th century 00:13:47 2.3 20th and 21st centuries 00:13:57 2.3.1 1900 to 1939 00:17:45 2.3.2 1940 to 1979 00:21:18 2.3.3 1980 to present 00:23:05 3 Geography 00:23:14 3.1 Topography 00:26:22 3.2 Communities 00:27:16 3.3 Streetscape 00:28:56 3.4 Architecture 00:31:25 3.5 Monuments and public art 00:33:53 3.6 Climate 00:36:29 4 Demographics 00:42:26 4.1 Religion 00:43:22 5 Economy 00:49:26 6 Culture and contemporary life 00:53:48 6.1 Entertainment and the arts 00:58:04 6.2 Festivals 00:59:05 6.3 Tourism 01:03:42 6.4 Cuisine 01:05:55 6.5 Literature 01:08:14 7 Sports 01:13:41 8 Parks and greenspace 01:16:13 9 Law and government 01:16:22 9.1 Government 01:17:35 9.2 Politics 01:20:32 9.3 Crime 01:25:23 9.4 Employee pensions 01:26:09 10 Education 01:26:18 10.1 Schools and libraries 01:29:37 10.2 Colleges and universities 01:31:31 11 Media 01:31:40 11.1 Television 01:33:16 11.2 Newspapers 01:34:11 11.3 Movies and Filming 01:35:34 11.4 Radio 01:36:17 11.5 Video Games 01:36:45 12 Infrastructure 01:36:54 12.1 Transportation 01:37:42 12.1.1 Expressways 01:38:31 12.1.2 Transit systems 01:40:17 12.1.3 Passenger rail 01:41:03 12.1.4 Bicycle-sharing system 01:41:46 12.1.5 Freight rail 01:42:43 12.1.6 Airports 01:43:45 12.1.7 Port authority 01:45:09 12.2 Utilities 01:46:28 12.3 Health systems 01:48:31 13 Sister cities 01:49:31 14 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= Chicago ( (listen), locally also ), officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States. As of the 2017 census-estimate, Chicago has a population of 2,716,450, which makes it the most populous city in both the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States. It is the county seat of Cook County, the second most populous county in the United States. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, which is often referred to as "Chicagoland." The Chicago metropolitan area has nearly 10 million people, is the third-largest in the United States, the fourth largest in North America, and the third largest metropolitan area in the world by land area. Located on the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900 Chicago was one of the five largest cities in the world. During this period, Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.Chicago is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It was the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures. O'Hare International Airport is the one of the busiest airports in the world, and the region also has the largest number of U.S. highways and railroad freight. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. Chicago has the fourth-largest gross metropolitan product in the world—generating about $670.5 billion according to September 2017 estimates—ranking it after the metropo ... |