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2. College of the University of Chicago - Wikipedia

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   The College of the University of Chicago is the university 's sole undergraduate institution and one of its oldest components, emerging contemporaneously with the university's Hyde Park campus in 1892. Instruction is provided by faculty from across all graduate divisions and schools for its 6,801 students, [2] but the College retains a select ...

3. University of Chicago - Wikipedia

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   The University of Chicago was re-incorporated as a coeducational [ 32 ]: 137 institution in 1890 by the American Baptist Education Society, using $400,000 donated to the ABES to supplement a $600,000 donation from Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller, [ 33 ] and including land donated by Marshall Field. [ 34 ]

4. Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Chicago. /  41.88194°N 87.62778°W  / 41.88194; -87.62778. Chicago[ a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, [ 9] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.

5. Economy of Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Economy of Chicago. Chicago and its suburbs is home to 35 Fortune 500 companies and is a transportation and distribution center. Manufacturing, printing, publishing, insurance, transportation, financial trading and services, and food processing also play major roles in the city's economy. The total economic output of Chicago in gross ...

6. History of Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history. Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe, especially Jews, Poles, and Italians, along with many smaller groups.

7. Illinois - Wikipedia

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   As defined by the federal government, the Chicago metro area includes several counties in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, and has a population of over 9.8 million. Chicago itself is a cosmopolitan city, densely populated, industrialized, the transportation hub of the nation, and settled by a wide variety of ethnic groups.