Chicago

n. largest city in the state of Illinois (USA); short river in Chicago (USA); 1927 movie produced by Cecil B. DeMille; name of a U.S. musical first performed in 1975; 2002 U.S.A. movie (starred Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rene Zellweger and Richard Gere) based on the musical; name of rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago (Illinois, USA); name of a poker game which is one of the most popular card games in Sweden

This article is about the U.S. city in the state of Illinois. For other uses, see Chicago (disambiguation). Chicago ( or ; shi-kah-go, or shi-kaw-go) is the largest city in the state of Illinois, the largest in the Midwest. With a population of nearly 2.9 million people, the city is the third largest in the United States. Rich in history and renowned for its architecture, Chicago is classified as an alpha world city. It is the anchor of the Chicago metropolitan area, commonly called Chicagoland, which has a population of over 9.5 million people in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, making it the third largest metropolitan area in the U.S. The City of Chicago is almost entirely located in Cook County, Illinois, with a small portion in DuPage County, while the metropolitan area extends over several counties.
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Noun
1. largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan
(synonym) Windy City
(hypernym) city, metropolis, urban center
(part-holonym) Illinois, Prairie State, Land of Lincoln, IL
(part-meronym) University of Chicago
2. a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
(synonym) Michigan, Newmarket, boodle, stops
(hypernym) card game, cards

n. Chicago, city in the USA

n. Chicago, city in the USA, largest city in the state of Illinois (USA); short river in Chicago (USA); name of a poker game which is one of the most popular card games in Sweden