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

The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Metropolitan Structures Collection, 1961 – 1969, includes scrapbooks and photographs documenting Chicago projects.

* 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 ).

The climb benefits the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago.

* Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

* Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

Examples include electoral districts such as Washington's 6th congressional district and Tennessee's 1st congressional district ; school districts such as Granite School District and Los Angeles Unified School District ; economic districts such as the Reedy Creek Improvement District ; metropolitan areas such as the Seattle metropolitan area, and metropolitan districts such as the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, the Metropolitan Police Service of Greater London, as well as other local districts like the York Rural Sanitary District, the Delaware River Port Authority, the Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District, and C-TRAN.

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.

The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago offers multiple leadership programmes in safe, welcoming environments throughout the city.

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

* Spruce was a stop on the Chicago and North Western Railway, about three miles east of Metropolitan

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

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

At one point in his career, Weese had designed the Metropolitan Correction Center in Chicago.

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.

It is located approximately 19 miles south of the Chicago Loop and is part of the Chicago – Naperville – Joliet, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the Kankakee – Bradley Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Chicago – Naperville – Michigan City, IL-IN-WI Combined Statistical Area.

It is part of the Kankakee – Bradley Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Chicago – Naperville – Michigan City, IL-IN-WI Combined Statistical Area.

It is part of the Kankakee – Bradley Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Chicago – Naperville – Michigan City, IL-IN-WI Combined Statistical Area.

* 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.

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.

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

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

Chicago Area Council operates Owasippe Scout Reservation in Michigan.

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.

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 was also a welcome host: there, in 1921, Prokofieff conducted the world premiere of the Love For Three Oranges, and played the first performance of his Third Piano Concerto.

He was also at this time, although not so interwoven in high politics and the rackets as Torrio and Capone, the most powerful and most dangerous mob leader in the Chicago underworld, the roughneck king.

Finally, we may also mention the several members of the self-consciously `` neoliberal '' movement that developed at the University of Chicago and is heavily indebted philosophically to the creative work of Alfred North Whitehead.

Colangelo's bid received strong support from one of his friends, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, and media reports say that then-acting Commissioner of Baseball and Milwaukee Brewers founder Bud Selig was also a strong supporter of Colangelo's bid.

Carolina also traded a third round draft pick in the 2012 NFL draft to the Chicago Bears for TE Greg Olsen.

An incident also occurred in April 2007 in the Chicago Loop district, where a coyote, later nicknamed " Adrian ", quietly entered a Quizno's restaurant during the lunch hours ; it was later captured and released at a wildlife rehabilitation center near Barrington, Illinois.

Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion of the city limits also extend into DuPage County.

Chicago's first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, opened in 1848, which also marked the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.

The Chicago Loop is the central business district, but Chicago is also a city of neighborhoods.

Chicago is also a prominent center of the Polish Cathedral style of church architecture.

A new and interesting addition to the Chicago classical music scene is also the Renovo String Orchestra of Chicago.

Ravinia Park, located north of Chicago, is also a favorite destination for many Chicagoans, with performances occasionally given in Chicago locations such as the Harris Theater.

The park also hosts the annual Taste of Chicago festival.

The city is also the home of several talk shows, including former The Oprah Winfrey Show on WLS-TV, while Chicago Public Radio produces programs such as PRI's This American Life and NPR's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!

There are also several regional and special-interest newspapers and magazines, such as Chicago, the Dziennik Związkowy ( Polish Daily News ), Draugas ( the Lithuanian daily newspaper ), the Chicago Reader, the SouthtownStar, the Chicago Defender, the Daily Herald, Newcity, StreetWise and the Windy City Times.

The entertainment and cultural magazine Time Out Chicago and GRAB Magazine are also published in the city.

Chicago has also been the setting for many popular television shows.

The Good Wife is also set in Chicago.

Chicago is also home to a number of national radio shows, including Beyond the Beltway with Bruce DuMont on Sunday evenings.