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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.

Wuyang County, located in the south-central part of Henan Province, is under the jurisdiction of Luohe City, facing Yuanhui District and Yecheng District in the east, Ye County in the west, Wugang City in the south and Xiangcheng County in the north. It has jurisdiction over 4 townships and 10 towns and 398 administrative villages. The county has a total area of 777square kilometers and a population of 600000. It is a thousand-year-old county and old revolutionary base county, and it is the first provincial poverty-stricken county to get rid of poverty after the establishment of the exit mechanism of poverty alleviation in Henan Province. Han Fan Kui, Wu Han, Sima Yi of the three Kingdoms once sealed Hou here, known as "Emperor Xiang Hou Kingdom". The Jiahu site in the territory has 10 of the largest in the world. Jiahu culture pushed the history of Chinese civilization forward to 9000 years ago and is known as the first dawn of human civilization. Wuyang peasant painting is famous at home and abroad, it is the first batch of intangible cultural heritage in Henan Province, it is the hometown of Chinese modern folk painting, folk culture and art, and it is the hometown of the whole country.
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