Chicago

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Chicago is a major city in the U.S. state of Illinois. The city is the largest in the Midwest and the third-most populous city in the United States, with approximately 2.8 million people. The Chicago Metropolitan area, informally known as Chicagoland, has a population of 9.4 million in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana making it the third largest in the United States. Chicago is located along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan and is a major center of transportation, industry, politics, culture, finance, medicine and higher education. Chicago is informally called the "Second City," the "Windy City," the "City of Big Shoulders" (from Carl Sandburg's poem Chicago), and "Chi-town."

Before european settlement, the area was inhabited by Algonquian peoples.

Chicago has a long (for the US) history of radical activism, such as the Haymarket incident. The Industrial Workers of the World was founded in Chicago and was headquartered there for many years. Lucy Parsons and Voltairine de Cleyre lived in Chicago.

Anarch@hood on infoshop's OpenWiki has a page on Chicago.

Several authoriarian leftist parties are based in Chicago, including the Revolutionary Communist Party and the International Socialist Organization.

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