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  Chicago, Illinois - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Chicago, Illinois — officially the City of Chicago and colloquially known as Chicago, the Second City and the Windy City — is the third largest city of the United States after New York City and Los Angeles and is the largest inland city of the nation.
Chicago and Chicagoland, when combined with the greater Milwaukee region, is often considered a megacity or megalopolis with a population that nears approximately 12 million people.
On August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was incorporated with a population of 350.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Chicago   (4018 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Polish-American   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
One of the most notable of the Polish-American communities is in Chicago, Illinois and its surrounding suburbs.
Thus, it is sometimes said that Chicago is the second largest "Polish" city in the world, as Warsaw, the Polish capital, is the only city with more Polish residents.
Milwaukee (which already had a major Polish population) and Denver (where richer Polish-Americans tend to move from Chicago) had major increases in their Polish populations in the last 10 years.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Polish-American   (627 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Chicago, Illinois Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Chicago was first settled by Europeans when Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a Haitian of African descent, settled on the Chicago River.
On August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was incorporated as a town with a population of 350.
Chicago is considered to be one of the largest Democratic strongholds in the United States, as an example, the citizens of Chicago have not elected a Republican mayor since 1927 when William Thompson was voted into office.
www.ipedia.com /chicago__illinois.html   (5849 words)

  
 Newberry Library | Chicago Neighborhood Bibliography
Hundreds of maps and atlases detailing Chicago, Cook County, and the collar counties of DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will between 1779-2003 are described in the Newberry Library Cartographic Catalog (NLCC).
The Chicago Area Geographic Information Study at the University of Illinois - Chicago has compiled 2000 data for Chicago's official community areas.
Thesis (M.A.), University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002.
www.newberry.org /genealogy/neighborhoods.html   (3288 words)

  
 Cosmopolitanism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
In addition to moral and political forms of cosmopolitanism, there emerged an economic form of cosmopolitan theory.
The freer trade advocated by eighteenth-century anti-mercantilists like Adam Smith and Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch took greater and greater hold.
They sought to diminish the role of politics in the economic realm.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/cosmopolitanism   (7347 words)

  
 Jazz Age Chicago--Chicago History Research Guide
The following is an introductory guide to conducting research on Chicago's history.
All of the following libraries, archives, and other institutions are open to the public, but may have irregular hours or require appointments.
· Ann Durkin Keating, Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005)
chicago.urban-history.org /res/res04.shtml   (175 words)

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