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Chicago (/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ (listen) shih-KAH-goh, locally also /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/ shih-KAW-goh) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the third-most populous in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles. With a population of 2,746,388 in the 2020 census, it is also the most populous city in the Midwest. As the seat of Cook County (the second-most populous U.S. county), the city is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, one of the largest in the world.

On the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century; by 1860, Chicago was the youngest U.S. city to exceed a population of 100,000. The Great Chicago Fire in 1871 destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but Chicago's population continued to grow to 503,000 by 1880 and then doubled to more than a million within the decade. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900, less than 30 years after the fire, Chicago was the fifth-largest city in the world. Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (such as, Chicago School architecture, the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper).

Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It is the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts, issued by the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is part of the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures alone. O'Hare International Airport is routinely ranked among the world's top six busiest airports according to tracked data by the Airports Council International. The region also has the largest number of federal highways and is the nation's railroad hub. The Chicago area has one of the highest gross domestic products (GDP) in the world, generating $689 billion in 2018. The economy of Chicago is diverse, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. It is home to several Fortune 500 companies, including Archer Daniels Midland, Conagra Brands, Exelon, JLL, Kraft Heinz, McDonald's, Mondelez International, Motorola Solutions, Sears, and United Airlines Holdings.

Jiangcheng District, located in the south of Yangjiang City, is one of the municipal districts of Yangjiang City, the resident of the municipal party committee and municipal government, and the political, economic, cultural, transportation and information center of Yangjiang City. It borders Yangxi County in the west, the eastern district of Yangyang in the east, Yangchun City in the north, the South China Sea in the south, the coastal low mountains and hills in the coastal hilly area, and faces the sea along the river. Belongs to the south subtropical marine climate, the average annual temperature is 22.5℃, the average annual precipitation is 2300 mm, the whole year is basically frost-free. The forest area is 15200 hectares, with a forest coverage rate of 19.2%. Jiangcheng is a dependency of Gaoliang County in ancient times. Since Wu Sunquan bought Gaoliang County in the first year of Wei and Huang Dynasty (AD 220) (except for the 58 years of Liu Song in the Southern Dynasty), it has been administered by counties, states and counties. In the second year of the great cause of the Sui Dynasty (AD 606), Yangjiang County was set up to transform the old Tucheng and the new brick and wood city after reconstruction.
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