{{City|picture =Chicago Lincoln zoo.jpg|picture2 =|map =|country =United States|state =Illinois|region =|settled =1630|charter =|population =2,800,000|area =|density =|mayor =Rahm Emanuel|demonym =Chicagoan}} [[File:Chicago Lincoln zooSears Tower.jpg|rightthumb|250px260px|Lincoln Park Zooleft|Looking north on the Chicago River south of Harrison Street. The tall black building is the Willis (née Sears) Tower; the building in the foreground is 311 South Wacker.]]
'''Chicago''' is a city located in the northeastern corner of [[Illinois]] at the southwestern tip of [[Lake Michigan]]. It is the third-largest city in the [[United States]], with 2.8 million residents, after New York and Los Angeles.<ref>http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/17/1714000.html</ref>. The Chicago metropolitan area, which extends from southern [[Wisconsin]] to northeastern [[Indiana]] and is often called "Chicagoland", contains 9.3 million people. <ref>http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/metro_general/2006/CSA-EST2006-alldata.csv</ref> It is the dominant city of the Midwest for transportation, trade, finance and high culture, and only reluctantly gave up the "second city" title to [[Los Angeles]] in the 1970s.
The world-renowned ''Art Institute of Chicago'' houses both a museum and a school. <ref> [http://www.artic.edu/ The Art Institute of Chicago] </ref>
[[File:Sears Tower.jpg|thumb|340px|left|Looking north on the Chicago River south of Harrison Street. The tall black building is the Willis (née Sears) Tower; the building in the foreground is 311 South Wacker.]]
==Demography==