On a Short Visit to Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the state of Illinois and the third-largest city in the United States, after New York and Los Angeles, with a population of over 2,700,000 in 2014. The city is an important financial and industrial center of North America is also known for its ethnic diversity, but also for its importance in the American transportation network, having the second largest airport in the United States in the number of passengers, competing only with Atlanta International Airport.

Chicago is located in the are area known in the United States as the Midwestern, is located in the northeastern part of Illinois, which together with the larger area of the city, called Chicagoland, are located on the edge of one of the Great Lakes. which separates the USA and Canada, Lake Michigan. Around 10,000,000 residents live in the Chicagoland metropolitan area.

Since 1833, the year of its organization as a city, Chicago has grown explosively from a small town on the U.S. “border” to the so-called “old northwest” into one of the largest, most sophisticated, and most influential cities. Metropolises of the country and the world. In 1885, the first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building, was demolished in Chicago in 1931.

The city is the architectural, cultural, and financial capital of the American “Midwest”.

Now I would like to present to you some tourist attractions that you can visit in a city break or a mini-vacation in Chicago.