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2. Hoffman Estates, Illinois - Wikipedia

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   Hoffman Estates is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a suburb of Chicago. Per the 2020 census, the population was 52,530. [3] The village now serves as the headquarters for Sears and one of the American headquarters for Mori Seiki.

3. North Shore (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   Communities and their years of settlement and incorporation Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. One of the earliest known monographs to be devoted to the North Shore, The Book of the North Shore (1910), and its companion volume, The Second Book of the North Shore (1911), were written by Marian A. White, whose husband J. Harrison White had established a weekly ...

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 in the 2020 census, [8] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.

5. Chicago metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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   The Chicago metropolitan area, also referred to as the Greater Chicago Area and Chicagoland, is the largest metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Illinois, containing the City of Chicago along with its surrounding suburbs and satellite cities. Encompassing 10,286 square mi (28,120 km 2 ), the metropolitan area includes the city of ...

6. 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 ...

7. Suburbanization - Wikipedia

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   Suburbanization. A suburban land use pattern in the United States ( Colorado Springs, Colorado ), showing a mix of residential streets and cul-de-sacs intersected by a four-lane road. Suburbanization ( AE ), or suburbanisation ( BE ), is a population shift from historic core cities or rural areas into suburbs, resulting in the formation of (sub ...