 Geography of Chicago and surrounding counties The city of Chicago is located in northern Illinois at the south western tip of Lake Michigan. It sits on the St. Lawrence Seaway continental divide at the site of the Chicago Portage, an ancient trade route connecting the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes watersheds. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (661x970, 146 KB) Summary The geography of the Chicagoland area. ...
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Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area City 606. ...
Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Area Ranked 25th - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²) - Width 210 miles (340 km) - Length 390 miles (629 km) - % water 4. ...
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, and the only one in the group located entirely within the United States. ...
The Saint Lawrence Seaway in its broadest sense (see Great Lakes Waterway) is the system of canals that permits ocean-going vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes as far as Lake Superior. ...
A continental divide is a line of elevated terrain which forms a border between two watersheds such that water falling on one side of the line eventually travels to one ocean or body of water, and water on the other side travels to another, generally on the opposite side of...
The Chicago Portage connects the watersheds (BrE: drainage basin) and the navigable waterways of the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes. ...
A trade route is the sequence of pathways and stopping places used for the commercial transport of cargo. ...
For the river in Canada, see Mississippi River (Ontario). ...
The Great Lakes from space The Great Lakes are a group of five large lakes in North America on or near the Canada-United States border. ...
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Geography
Chicago's present natural geography is a result of the large glaciers of the Ice Age, namely the Wisconsinan Glaciation that carved out the modern basin of Lake Michigan (which formed from the glacier's meltwater). The terminal moraines formed by the glacier today are low lines of hills in the southern suburbs. The flat plain that Chicago proper mostly lies on is the bed of glacial Lake Chicago, which was a larger precursor of Lake Michigan. Glacial and Glaciation redirect here. ...
Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years For the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie). ...
This article or section should be merged with Wisconsin glaciation The Wisconsinian was the last major advance of continental glaciers in North America. ...
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, and the only one in the group located entirely within the United States. ...
Moraine at Mono Lake, California, United States Moraines clearly seen on a side glacier of the Gorner Glacier, Zermatt, Switzerland. ...
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A view of a terminal moraine in rural Kendall County Topographical relief is so unusual in Chicago that what would be unnoticed hills and ridges in other locals have been given names. The highest natural point within the city limits is in the Beverly neighborhood at 41°42′12.5″N, 87°40′37″W. In pioneer days, this hill was called Blue Island, so named because at a distance it looked like an island in set a tractless prairie sea. In fact it, and the nearby Stony Island, were both islands in Lake Chicago. The diagonals Clark Street and Ridge Boulevard run along ridges that were once sandbars in the Lake. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 250 pixels Full resolution (1070 × 335 pixel, file size: 296 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A wooded section of a terminal moraine. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 250 pixels Full resolution (1070 × 335 pixel, file size: 296 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A wooded section of a terminal moraine. ...
Incorporated City in 1900. ...
Stony Island Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the city of Chicago, designated 1600 E in Chicagos street numbering system. ...
Chicagos Clark Street is occasionally a diagonal, and occasionally a north-south street running near the shore of Lake Michigan from the city limits with Evanston (where it is called Chicago Avenue, and further north, Green Bay Road) south to Cermak Road. ...
One special feature of the Chicago area was the now-vanished Mud Lake in the Des Plaines River watershed. During heavy periods of rain or when the Des Plaines overflowed its banks due to downstream ice dams in the early spring, the river would flow through Mud Lake to the South Branch of the Chicago River, forming a favorite portage for early traders and creating the path of the future I&M and Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canals. When the city we know today was initially founded in the 1830s, the land was swampy and most of the early building began on low dunes around the Chicago River's mouth. This article needs to be wikified. ...
The location and course of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. ...
The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is the only shipping link between the Great Lakes (specifically Lake Michigan by the Chicago River) with the Mississippi River system, by way of the Illinois and Des Plaines rivers. ...
Downtown buildings line the Chicago River The Chicago River is 156 miles (251 km) long, and flows through downtown Chicago. ...
Statistics According to the United States Census Bureau, Chicago has a total area of 606.1 km² (234.0 mi²). 588.3 km² (227.1 mi²) of it is land and 17.8 km² (6.9 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 2.94% water. The city has been built on relatively flat land, the average height of land is 579 feet (176 meters) above sea level. Chicago, along with New York City and Los Angeles, California, make up the three most massive cities of the U.S., yet Chicago is only half the other two cities' individual land areas. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title ) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ...
Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ...
Nickname: Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1625 Government - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - City 468. ...
Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government - Type Mayor-Council - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo - Governing body City Council Area - City 498. ...
The Chicago Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) consists of Cook county and five surrounding Illinois counties as well as the Chicago–Gary–Kenosha Consolidated Statistical Area (CSA) which is made up of nine counties, two of them in northwestern Indiana and one in southeastern Wisconsin. In the United States, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has produced a formal definition of metropolitan areas, which are organized around county boundaries. ...
Cook County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Indianapolis Largest city Indianapolis Area Ranked 38th - Total 36,418 sq mi (94,321 km²) - Width 140 miles (225 km) - Length 270 miles (435 km) - % water 1. ...
Official language(s) None Capital Madison Largest city Milwaukee Area Ranked 23rd - Total 65,498 sq mi (169,790 km²) - Width 260 miles (420 km) - Length 310 miles (500 km) - % water 17 - Latitude 42°30N to 47°3N - Longitude 86°49W to 92°54W Population Ranked...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (8459x1024, 1387 KB)[edit] Summary Chicago Skyline from Adler Planetarium Buphoff 18:46, 9 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (8459x1024, 1387 KB)[edit] Summary Chicago Skyline from Adler Planetarium Buphoff 18:46, 9 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
A skyline is best described as the overall or partial view or relief of a citys tall buildings and structures consisting of many skyscrapers. ...
Cityscape When it comes to skyscrapers, Chicago is king, being the first U.S. city to reach new heights. Chicago, along with New York City and Hong Kong, makes up the "big three" when it comes to city skylines. Today Chicago can boast to having 5 of the 10 tallest buildings in the United States and 10 of the 50 tallest in the world. Nickname: Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1625 Government - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - City 468. ...
By modern standards, Chicago has little reason to build up: being located in the Midwest, it has plenty of room to sprawl outwards on almost Euclideanesque flat ground. There is the Chicago River, which may bring some argument as to geographic restriction, but the impact of which was strongly lessened by the strict adherence to the Chicago grid across the river. The Midwest is a common name for a region of the United States of America. ...
Euclid Euclidean geometry is a mathematical system attributed to the Greek mathematician Euclid of Alexandria. ...
Downtown buildings line the Chicago River The Chicago River is 156 miles (251 km) long, and flows through downtown Chicago. ...
Today, Chicago is going through a massive skyscraper building boom, with projects like 55 East Erie (the tallest residential building in the U.S. outside New York City) and Trump International Hotel (to be completed in 2007, it will be the fourth tallest in Chicago and the tallest building built in the U.S. for nearly three decades) breaking ground frequently. All this can really be attributed to precedent: Chicago has always had a history of frantic skyscraper building, mostly beginning after the Great Chicago Fire, and since this time developers simply follow the pattern set before them. Trump Tower Chicago construction as of April 21, 2005 Trump Tower Chicago, also known as Trump International Hotel and Tower, is a planned skyscraper in downtown Chicago, Illinois named for famed real estate developer Donald Trump. ...
Artists rendering of the fire, by John R Chapin, originally printed in Harpers Weekly The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday October 8 to early Tuesday October 10, 1871, killing hundreds and destroying about four square miles in Chicago, Illinois. ...
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