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Chicago is one of the grand cities of not only the United States, but the world: it's been rated an "alpha world city" by the World Cities Study Group. And that was just for its economic importance--not for its architecture, or its music, or its baseball, or its theater, or even its pizza. Chi-town does everything its own way, and it's famous for just about everything it does.
The Chicago region stretches from below the tip of Lake Michigan northward to the Wisconsin border, and west beyond the Fox River. The Chicago metropolitan area includes such cities as Aurora, Joliet, Napierville, and Skokie; and Kendall County, in the western portion, was the fastest-growing county in the United States for most of this century's first decade.
The Chicago metropolitan area is home to 57 major corporations, and the city has the third largest gross metropolitan product in the nation. It ranks 16th on Union Bank of Switzerland's list of the world's richest cities.
Articles
News from The Chigago Tribune
Census shows our changing portrait
Mar 14, 2010 6:00 am
No easy answers for many filling out new form Look in the mirror and what do you see?
State deficit casts a shadow that leaves educators in the dark
Mar 14, 2010 6:00 am
As officials in Morton High School District 201 try to balance their budget, they've touched off angry school board meetings, student...
Mar 14, 2010 6:00 am
Proponents point to reduced dependence on foreign oil, say no evidence of physiological harm Months have pass...
Doctor's gift for the dying? Time.
Mar 14, 2010 6:00 am
Knowing that cures could be found at any time motivates doctor Dr. Richard W. Byrne labored for more than thr...
Lawmakers get eviction notices
Mar 13, 2010 2:32 am
Budget crunch means state is slow to pay office rents The state's money problems are so bad that lawmakers ar...
Making an underhand pitch for majors
Mar 13, 2010 1:50 am
Chris ‘Disco’ Hayes battling long odds to bring submarine style to Major League Baseball mound ...
Special ed student gives up on CPS
Mar 13, 2010 1:29 am
Honor student with cerebral palsy never got bus service Termel Jennings, an honor student with cerebral palsy...
Michelle Obama designer to liquidate
Mar 12, 2010 11:14 pm
All of the praise for Michelle Obama's grape- and tomato-colored sheaths couldn't bear enough fruit to spare their Chicago-based designer — Maria Pinto — from the recession's bligh...
News from the Chicago Sun-Times
Wis. man credits Packers loyalty for saving life
Mar 14, 2010 10:00 am
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- A Wisconsin man who says his Green Bay Packers loyalties helped save his life has been voted into the team's Fan Hall of Fame.
NE storm leaves half-million without power
Mar 14, 2010 10:00 am
Strong winds and heavy rain pounded parts of the Northeast on Saturday, knocking out power to more than a half-million homes and businesses and stranding about 500 passengers on a New York-bound tra...
Investigators can't replicate runaway Prius
Mar 14, 2010 10:00 am
SAN DIEGO -- Investigators with Toyota Motor Corp. and the federal government could not replicate the runaway speeding reported by a Prius owner who said his car's accelerator stuck as he drove on a C...
Crews battle three-alarm blaze at Maywood auto repair shop
Mar 14, 2010 10:00 am
At least ten departments are responding to a three-alarm fire in west suburban Maywood Sunday morning.
Motorist charged for hitting man changing tire on I-90
Mar 14, 2010 10:00 am
A woman has been charged after striking the van of a man changing a flat tire, injuring him, on the Northwest Tollway (I-90) Saturday morning.
Multi-alarm fire reported in Bolingbrook
Mar 14, 2010 10:00 am
Fire crews are on the scene of a blaze Sunday morning in southwest suburban Bolingbrook.
Can't stand heat, chefs get out of the kitchen -- and smoke
Mar 14, 2010 10:00 am
There's no smoking inside Illinois restaurants. But what about outside, or around back? You're likely to find a number of the waitstaff and kitchen crew puffing away. Forty percent of the people e...
Egypt cancels unveiling of synagogue
Mar 14, 2010 10:00 am
CAIRO -- Egypt canceled the inauguration of a restored synagogue on Sunday citing objections to Israel's treatment of Muslims in the occupied territories as well as alleged excesses during an earlier ...
Ditka glad he turned down 2004 bid against Obama
Mar 14, 2010 10:00 am
Mike Ditka says he has no regrets about passing up Republican Party overtures to run against Barack Obama for U.S. Senate in 2004.
Protesters demand new election in Bangkok
Mar 14, 2010 10:00 am
Tens of thousands of red-shirted protesters rallied in Thailand's capital Sunday to press their demand that the government dissolve Parliament or face massive demonstrations at key sites in the city...
