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- Chicago is a financial and industrial city in
- Illinois, USA, on Lake Michigan. It is the
- third largest US city, its population in
- 1990 was 2,783,700. Industries include iron,
- steel, chemicals, electrical goods,
- machinery, meatpacking and food processing,
- publishing, and fabricated metals. The
- world's first skyscraper was built here in
- 1885 and some of the world's tallest
- skyscrapers, including the tallest, the Sears
- Tower which stands at 443m (1,454 ft).
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- Subject by: Russell Webb
-