Chicago
City and county seat of Cook County, and largest city in State of Illinois, United States of America
Also known as City of Chicago · City of Broad Shoulders · Chicago, Illinois · Chi-Town · City by the Lake · The Second City
- Country
- Located in
- Cook County(since 1831)
- Population
- 2,746,388(April 1, 2020)
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Sources- 1.Stated in 2020 United States Censusdata.census.gov/cedsci/table?t=Populations%20and%20People&g=0100000US,%241600000&y=2020Retrieved 2022-01-01
- , 2,731,585(July 1, 2025)
1
Sources- 1.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/chicagocityillinois/PST045225Retrieved 2026-08-22
- , 2,716,000(2017)
- +3 more
- 2,746,388(April 1, 2020)
- Area
- 606.424 km²(2016)
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- , 606.3528 km²(April 1, 2010)
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- 606.424 km²(2016)
- Elevation
- 179 m
- Head of government
- Brandon Johnson(since 2023)
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- , Rahm Emanuel(2011–2019)
- , Lori Lightfoot(2019–2023)
2
Sources- 1.“États-Unis : Lori Lightfoot, première maire noire et homosexuelle de Chicago”lavdn.lavoixdunord.fr/562451/article/2019-04-03/chicago-elit-une-maire-noire-et-homosexuelle-une-premiere-pour-la-ville
- 2.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/mayor.htmlRetrieved 2022-03-28
- +55 more
- Brandon Johnson(since 2023)
- Founded
- March 4, 1837
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- March 4, 1837
- Postal code
- 60601
- , 60602
- , 60603
- +57 more
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
442 statements · 22% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Local dialing code
- 872
- 312
- 773
- Twinned administrative body
- Kyiv(since 1991)
4
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- 2.“Перелік Міст, З Якими Києвом Підписані Документи Про Поріднення, Дружбу, Співробітництво, Партнерство”old.kyivcity.gov.ua/files/2018/2/15/Mista-pobratymy.pdfRetrieved 2020-05-11
- 3.chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/kyiv-ukraine/
- 4.kyivcity.gov.ua/kyiv_ta_miska_vlada/pro_kyiv/mista-pobratimi_z_yakimi_kiyevom_pidpisani_dokumenti_pro_poridnennya_druzhbu_spivrobitnitstvo_partnerstvo/
- Vilnius(since 1993)
- Lucerne(since 1998)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Accra(since 1989)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Casablanca(since 1982)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Durban(since 1997)
- Bogotá(since 2009)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Mexico City(since 1991)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
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- Toronto(since 1991)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Amman(since 2004)
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Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Busan(since 2007)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Delhi(since 2001)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Lahore(since 2007)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Osaka(since 1973)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Petah Tikva(since 1994)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Shenyang(since 1985)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Athens(since 1997)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Belgrade(since 2005)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Birmingham(since 1993)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Galway(since 1997)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Gothenburg Municipality(since 1987)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Hamburg(since 1994)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Milan(since 1962)
- Moscow(since 1997)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Prague(since 1990)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Warsaw(since 1960)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- São Paulo
- Karachi
- Belo Horizonte
- Kiryat Gat
- Antalya
- Los Mochis
- Paris(since 1996)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Shanghai(since 1985)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- Sydney(since 2019)
1
Sources- 1.“Sister Cities”chicagosistercities.com/sister-cities/Retrieved 2020-05-11
- New Delhi
- Manama(since 2004)
- Kyiv(since 1991)
- Official name
- City of Chicago
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- Chicago
- City of Chicago
- Native label
- Chicago
- Demonym
- Chicagoan language: English
- Ĉikagano language: Esperanto
- Chicagois applies to part: masculine singular · language: French
- Chicagoise applies to part: feminine singular
- Chicažan applies to part: masculine singular
- Chicažanka applies to part: feminine singular
- Water as percent of area
- 2.7676%(April 1, 2010)
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- 2.7676%(April 1, 2010)
- Per capita income
- $39,068(December 31, 2020) statement supported by: 2016–2020 American Community Survey
- Number of households
- 1,081,143(December 31, 2020) statement supported by: 2016–2020 American Community Survey
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Sources- 1.Stated in 2016–2020 American Community Surveydata.census.gov/cedsci/table?d=ACS%205-Year%20Estimates%20Detailed%20TablesRetrieved 2022-05-05
- 1,081,143(December 31, 2020) statement supported by: 2016–2020 American Community Survey
- Phone number
- +1-312-744-5000
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- +1-312-744-5000
- Motto text
- Urbs In Horto
- I Will
- Social media followers
- 509,055(May 23, 2023) subreddit: chicago
- Date of incorporation
- August 12, 1833 subject named as: Town of Chicago
- March 4, 1837 subject named as: City of Chicago
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- Territory overlaps
- Chicago urban area subject has role: primary place
1
- Chicago urban area subject has role: primary place
- Location
- Chicagoland statement supported by: Chicago Tribune, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce · statement disputed by: Illinois Office of Tourism
- Name
- Chi Gia Kha nature of statement: rarely
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Sources- 1.tapchicongthuong.vn/michael-jackson-truoc-nam-1975-duoc-phien-am-thanh-manh-khac-lac-khac-ton--va-hon-100--ten-quoc-gia--dia-danh--ca-si--dien-vien-dien-anh--doc-len-rat-la-tai-65715.htm
- 2.trinm.wordpress.com/2010/08/22/lan-man-v%E1%BB%81-vi%E1%BB%87t-hoa-d%E1%BB%8Ba-danh-va-ten-danh-nhan/
- Chi Gia Kha nature of statement: rarely
On other databases
158 identifiers linking Chicago across the web's reference databases
- AllTrails trail IDus/illinois/chicago
- Alvin IDalvin-place:5167
- Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID151048885
- ArchINFORM location ID1820
- Armeniapedia ID4119
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlinecikaga
- Australian War Memorial IDPL504026
- Babelio subject ID87897
- BabelNet ID00018253n
- Ballotpedia IDChicago,_Illinois
- BBC News topic IDcm6pprgvzqwt
- BHCL UUIDc9470b8f-9fc0-46e7-bedd-797a88b17ada
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11942716g
- BIBSYS ID90366599
- BNMM authority ID000046468
- British Museum place IDx30036
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDchicago-20
- Canadiana Name Authority IDncf10192888
- CANTIC ID981058615156606706
- Comic Vine ID4020-55728
- Curlie IDRegional/North_America/United_States/Illinois/Localities/C/Chicago/
- Data Commons IDgeoId/1714000
- De Agostini IDChicago
- DeCS ID28267
- Dewey Decimal Classification2--77311
- Disney A to Z IDchicago
- Domain namechi.il.us
- DPLA subject termChicago (Ill.)
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Chicago
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDchicago
- Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present entry ID0233
- Encyclopedia of Chicago ID2463
- Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID246419
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)3710Dv
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)561059
- ERR keyword ID110018
- Estonian Subject Thesaurus ID135698
- Facebook location ID108659242498155
- FactGrid item IDQ235861
- Fandom wiki IDchicago
- FAST ID1204048
- FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)17-14000
- Foursquare City Guide venue ID4c4200ffce54e21e9bf70b1a
- Freebase ID/m/01_d4
- GeoNames ID4887398
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7013596
- Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)3035-293
- Giant Bomb Wiki IDLocations/Chicago
- GitHub topicchicago
- Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online IDChicago (Illinois, USA)
- GND ID4009921-0
- GNIS Feature ID428803
- Golden ID (archived)Chicago
- Google Arts & Culture entity IDm01_d4
- Google Maps Customer ID12673312613543755776
- Google News topics IDCAAqIQgKIhtDQkFTRGdvSUwyMHZNREZmWkRRU0FtVnVLQUFQAQ
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDchicago
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0017551
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDChicago
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)4686091
- Grove Art Online IDT016410
- Gynopedia IDChicago
- Harper's tagchicago
- Hiking Project area ID8008097
- House Divided ID9235
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID11606
- ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID30340
- IDAI.gazetteer ID2121850
- IdRef ID027370860
- IMDb keywordchicago-illinois
- INaturalist place ID49906
- Instagram location ID204517928
- Interlingual Index IDi84355
- J9U entity ID987007550357205171
- Japan Search name IDシカゴ
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID (Russian)14686
- Joconde location IDT84-208
- Krugosvet article (archived)Earth_sciences/geografiya/CHIKAGO.html
- KSW place ID88179
- Larousse IDville/wd/113326
- Le Figaro tag IDChicago
- Lemmy community IDchicago@midwest.social
- Lex IDChicago_-_by_i_USA
- Libraries Australia ID36058718
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn78086438
- LocalWiki IDchicago
- MeSH concept IDM0004039
- MeSH descriptor IDD002641
- MeSH term IDT007676
- MeSH tree codeZ01.107.567.875.350.350.200