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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.

Shihezi, a county-level city directly under the jurisdiction of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, implements a division-city management system with the eighth Division of the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps, which is managed by the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps. Located in the middle part of the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain, in the south of Junggar Basin, covering an area of 460 square kilometers, 150 kilometers east of Urumqi, the capital of the autonomous region, Shihezi University, one of the two 211 universities in Xinjiang. Shihezi was once the headquarters of the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps, and then moved to Urumqi. Shihezi is a new city of military reclamation, which relies on farms, is dominated by industry, the combination of industry and agriculture, the combination of urban and rural areas, and the integration of agriculture, industry and commerce. Shihezi is famous for its reputation as "Gobi Pearl". In June 2017, Shihezi was named as a national health city. In the same year, Shihezi City confirmed that it would continue to retain the honorary title of national civilized city.
Travel Notes In Shihezi
"Banchao Sai" Banchao Mission to the Western Regions: Peng Dehuai and Xinjiang
Banchai Sai: Peng Dehuai and Xinjiang "Military Reclamation Museum" in Shihezi, Xinjiang In 1949, Peng Dehuai led the work of liberating Xinjiang. O
Punch in Shenxianwan - enjoy life starting from Tiguan L
Shihezi Shenxian Bay is really great! People are swimming in the painting, horses are walking in the forest, birds are singing in the trees, love is g
West Park - Memories of this Young City
The dancing rhyme swirls, the mountains and rivers laugh, and the singing sings to the fullest, The national harmony is colorful, and the frontier sce
How big is "China's largest farm"? Speaking it out may ruin your three views!
Ventu/Lucker If I tell you seriously: this is a desert! You're sure to think you're talking nonsense! But sorry. This is a fact. Everyone knows that