It is the principal city in Chicago Metropolitan Area situated in the Midwestern United States and the Great Lakes region.

The Chicago Metropolitan Area also includes adherents of Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and the Bahá ' í, among others.

* Best Documentary of the Year awards for The Fog of War ( 2003 ): the National Board of Review, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Chicago Film Critics, and the Washington D. C. Area Film Critics.

Historically, large Irish American communities have been found in Philadelphia ; Chicago ; Boston ; New York City ; Detroit ; New England ; Baltimore ; Pittsburgh ; St. Paul, Minnesota ; Buffalo ; Broome County ; Los Angeles ; and the San Francisco Bay Area.

* August 28 – The Plainfield Tornado ( F5 on the Fujita scale ) strikes the towns of Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 29 people ( the strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago Metropolitan Area ).

Amtrak's California Zephyr, a daily passenger service from Emeryville, California ( San Francisco Bay Area ) to Chicago, uses the First Transcontinental Railroad from Sacramento to central Nevada.

Wilson was taken to Area 2 detective headquarters on the South Side for interrogation under Chicago Police Detective Jon Burge.

In December 1990 Amnesty International issued a report " Allegations of Police Torture in Chicago, Illinois " calling for a full inquiry into allegations that Area 2 Chicago Police tortured criminal suspects between 1972 and 1984.

Springfield is the third and current capital of the US state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County with a population of 116, 250 ( U. S. Bureau of the Census, 2010 ), making it the sixth most populated city in the state and the second most populated Illinois city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area.

The population of Puerto Ricans and descendants is estimated to be between 8 to 10 million worldwide, with most living within the islands of Puerto Rico, Central Florida, Chicago Metropolitan Area and in New York City, where there is a large Nuyorican community.

Even though Kenosha County is in Wisconsin, it is considered a part of the U. S. Census Bureau's Chicago Metropolitan Area.

The California Zephyr runs from the San Francisco Bay Area to Chicago via Salt Lake City, Denver and Omaha.

Much of the population growth has to do with the expansion of the Chicago Metropolitan Area eastward into Indiana.

The county is also part of the larger Chicago – Naperville – Michigan City, IL-IN-WI Combined Statistical Area.

Boone County is one of two counties included in the Rockford, Metropolitan Statistical Area and is adjacent to the Chicago Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The Bass Lake lone troop Scout camp was part of the Owasippe Scout Reservation operated by the Chicago Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

It is served by Owasippe Lodge # 7. Chicago Area Council

The Bass Lake lone troop Scout camp was part of the Owasippe Scout Reservation operated by the Chicago Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

Theodore Olson was born in Chicago and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in Mountain View, California.

Champaign is the 11th-most populous city in Illinois, and the fourth-most populous city in the state outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area.

In 2007, Forbes Magazine rated Homewood as one of the three most " livable " suburbs in the Chicago Metropolitan Area.

Steering and block-by-block panic peddling caused rapid racial change on Chicago ’ s west side, including the Austin Community Area adjacent to Oak Park.

* Chicago Rabbinical Council

At Chicago, he had received a grant from the National Research Council ( NRC ) which had paid for much of his work on isotope separation.

Daley had limited opposition among the 50 aldermen of the Chicago City Council.

On December 2, 1987 the Chicago City Council appointed Alderman Eugene Sawyer as mayor until a special election for the remaining two years of the term could be held in 1989.

On March 19, 1997, the Chicago City Council adopted the Domestic Partners Ordinance, which made available employee benefits to same-sex partners of City employees.

By 2002, Daley had appinted more than a third of the 50 aldermen of the Chicago City Council.

The Chicago City Council became even more of a rubber stamp than in Richard M. Daley ’ s first terms in office.

In the 18 months from January 12, 2000 to June 6, 2001, there were only 13 divided roll call votes in the Chicago City Council, less than one a month.

A unilateral decision by the mayor without approval from the Chicago City Council or Federal Aviation Administration, the act resulted in public debate.

The Chicago City Council approved, by a 41 – 6 vote on February 6, 2008, an increase in the city's real-estate transfer tax to bail out the Chicago Transit Authority.

" By signing a 10-year ( contract ) with the Teamsters ( and with over 30 other unions representing city employees ), the current administration and City Council unduly hamstrung not only the current management of city government, but the next six years of management as well, a period that extends well beyond the elected terms of the incoming administration and City Council ," according to a March 2011 report from the Office of the Inspector General of the City of Chicago.

" Daley called a special meeting of the Chicago City Council, and four days later the Council approved a gun control ordinance revised to include City firearms permits.

The many ethnic groups such as Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians, Jews, Italians, and African Americans that began to settle in Chicago in the early 1900s were mostly detached from the political system, due in part to lack of organization which led to underrepresentation in the City Council.

In 1939, the Chicago City Council added a fourth star to the city flag to represent Fort Dearborn.

The so-called franchise war then shifted to the Chicago City Council — an arena in which Yerkes ordinarily thrived.

Category: Chicago City Council members

Category: Chicago City Council members

* 1984: Chicago Architecture Award, Illinois Council of the AIA ( first recipient )

The Natural Resources Defense Council ( NRDC ) is a New York City-based, non-profit, non-partisan international environmental advocacy group, with offices in Washington, D. C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Beijing.

In the 1930s the Chicago City Council and Illinois State Legislature passed resolutions to create the airport, but both the poor economy and World War II intervened.

* The Council – A clandestine criminal organization in Chicago that employs the Director, Matrix-Prime, and the Gang.