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Chicago and its suburbs is home to 35 Fortune 500 companies and is a transportation and distribution center. Manufacturing, printing, publishing, insurance, transportation, financial trading and services, and food processing also play major roles in the city's economy.
The Chicago metropolitan area represents about 3 percent of the entire US population. Chicagoland has one of the world's largest and most diversified economies. With more than six million full and part-time employees, the Chicago metropolitan area is a key factor of the Illinois economy, as the state has an annual GDP of over $1 trillion. [7]
When you think of a relaxing, laidback and balmy place to retire, Chicago definitely doesn't come to mind. It's got a population north of 2.6 million, has infamously cold and windy winters, and a...
The city faces severe financial problems. [15] From 2010 to 2013, it failed to fund its police and fire pensions, paying just $140 of $10.1 million required contributions. [16] This problem has been reported in other Chicago suburbs with economic problems. [16] Since 2007, Harvey has refused to audit its municipal finances as required by the ...
Chicago may be the third-largest city in the U.S., but it isn’t among the three most expensive. A GOBankingRates survey calculated the cost of living in the 50 largest U.S. states and ranked ...
A population explosion took place in the 1950s and 1960s, when the spread of automobile ownership, together with the expansion of the Chicago-area economy, the baby boom, and white flight from the city, drove the number of people in Arlington Heights—expanded by a series of annexations—up to 64,884 by 1970.
The Central Manufacturing District of Chicago is a 265-acre (1.07 km 2) area [1] of the city in which private decision makers planned the structure of the district and its internal regulation, including the provision of vital services ordinarily considered to be outside the scope of private enterprise. [2]