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Article: Chicago: a portrait and brief history.
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- Social Policy
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- March 22, 2002
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Chicago is the third largest city in the United States, with about 3,000,000 people in the city. Only New York City and Los Angeles have more people. Chicago also ranks among the world's leading industrial and transportation centers. The Chicago area manufactures more fabricated metals and food products than any other urban area in the United States. Trucks and railroad cars carry more goods in and out of Chicago than any other city in the country.
The Chicago metropolitan area has about 8 million people. About 5 million live in Cook County, the second largest U.S. county in population after Los Angeles County. The metropolitan area covers 5,065 square miles ...