Chicago Company Profile

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Company Name	Chicago
Website	www.cityofchicago.org
Snippet	Chicago (/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ ( listen), locally also /-ˈkɔː-/), officially the City of Chicago, on Lake Michigan in Illinois, is one of the largest cities in the United States. As of the 2017 census-estimated population of 2,716,450, Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States after New York and Los Angeles, and the most populous city in both the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States. It is the county seat of Cook County. The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as "Chicagoland", has nearly 10 million people and is the third-largest in the United States and fourth largest in North America. The city is the birthplace of the skyscraper, and considered the most influential architectural city of the 20th century.[6] Chicago saw the creation of the first standardized futures contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade; today its successor has evolved into the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures.[7]
State	Illinois
Country	United States
Settled	circa 1780
Website	www.cityofchicago.org
• CSA	9,901,711 (US: 3rd)[3]
Counties	Cook, DuPage
• Body	Chicago City Council
• City	2,695,598
• Land	227.34 sq mi (588.81 km2)
• Rank	3rd, U.S.
• Type	Mayor–council
FIPS code	17-14000
Named for	Miami-Illinois: shikaakwa(wild onion or wild garlic)
Time zone	Central (UTC-6)
• Mayor	Rahm Emanuel (D)
• Metro	9,533,040 (3rd)[3]
• Urban	2,122.8 sq mi (5,498 km2)
• Water	6.80 sq mi (17.62 km2) 3.0%
Area codes	312/872 and 773/872
Demonym(s)	Chicagoan
Founded by	Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
• Density	11,898.29/sq mi (4,593.95/km2)
• City Clerk	Anna Valencia (D)
GNIS feature ID	0428803
• Summer (DST)	Central (UTC-5)
ZIP Code Prefixes	606xx, 607xx, 608xx
• City Treasurer	Kurt Summers Jr. (D)
Elevation[1] (mean)	594 ft (181 m)
Incorporated (city)	March 4, 1837
Incorporated (town)	August 12, 1833
• Estimate (2017)[5]	2,716,450
Lowest elevation– at Lake Michigan	578 ft (176 m)
Highest elevation– near Blue Island	672 ft (205 m)

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