History

Origin of name

Geography

Topography

Climate

Cityscape

North Side

South Side

West Side

The West Side encompasses neighborhoods such as Austin, Pilsen, Garfield Park, West Town, and Humboldt Park. This area has heavily industrialized sections and a vast swath of run-down neighborhoods through Lawndale and Garfield Park. However, other parts, such as West Town and the West Loop have been extensively gentrified and are now home to many transplanted suburbanites and are havens for new yuppies relocating from all over the midwest. The southernmost neighborhoods are home to a large part of Chicago's Hispanic population while farther north are several working- and middle-class neighborhoods.

Culture

Tourism

Sports

Media

Economy

Demography

Law and government

Crime

See also: Organized crime in Chicago

Education

Public education

The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is the school district that controls over 600 public elementary and high schools in Chicago. The school district, with more 400,000 students enrolled,^[45] is led by CEO Arne Duncan. The CPS also includes several selective-admission magnet schools, such as Whitney Young Magnet High School, William Jones College Preparatory, Walter Payton College Prep, Lane Tech College Prep, and Northside College Preparatory High School.

Higher education

Infrastructure

Health and medicine

Transportation

Utilities

Electricity for all of northern Illinois is provided by Commonwealth Edison, also known as ComEd. Their service territory borders Iroquois County to the south, the Wisconsin border to the north, the Iowa border to the west and the Indiana border to the east. In northern Illinois, ComEd (a division of Exelon) operates the greatest number of nuclear generating plants in any US state. Because of this, ComEd reports indicate that Chicago receives about 75% of its electricity from nuclear power.

Notes

Further reading

• Chicago Timeline. Chicago Public Library at www.chipublib.org/004chicago/chihist.html.
• USGS—Chicago - Elevation and topography.
• Blackwell, Elizabeth Canning (November 2003). Frommer's 2004 Chicago. Frommer's. ISBN 0-7645-3903-5.
• (October 2004) James R. Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, Janice L. Reiff. The Encyclopedia of Chicago. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-31015-9.
  • The Encyclopedia of Chicago (online version)
• (September 1, 2004) Charles Madigan. Global Chicago. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-02941-0.
• Miller, Donald L. (April 1996). City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-80194-9.
• [4] - Chicago Art, Theater, Fashion, and Dining.
• Griffin, Adam (August 2006). Chicago Information. chicagopage. ISBN.

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