Chicago ndi mzinda umene uli m'chigawo cha Illinois ku United States of America. Chicago ili ku Midwest m'chigawo cha dzikolo ndipo ikukhala kumwera kwakumadzulo kwa Nyanja Michigan. Nyanja Michigan ndi imodzi mwa Nyanja Yaikulu.
Chicago ili ndi anthu asanu ndi atatu omwe ali pamwamba pa mizinda yonse ku United States. Ndi anthu pafupifupi 3 miliyoni, ali ndi mizinda yambiri ku Illinois ndi Midwestern United States.
Mzinda wa Chicago - womwe umatchedwa Chicagoland - uli ndi anthu pafupifupi 10 miliyoni.
Chicago anaphatikizidwa ngati mzinda mu 1837 ndipo chiŵerengero chake chinakula mofulumira cha m'ma 1800. Mzindawu ndi malo a mayiko osiyanasiyana a zachuma, malonda, mafakitale, luso lamakono, makanema, ndi maulendo. Ndege ya O'Hare ya ku Chicago ndi ndege yapamwamba kwambiri padziko lonse yomwe ikuyendetsedwa ndi magalimoto a ndege. Chicago ili ndichitatu chachikulu kwambiri pamzinda waukulu ku United States- pafupifupi $ 630.3 biliyoni malinga ndi chiwerengero cha 2014-2016. Mzindawu uli ndi chuma chachikulu kwambiri padziko lonse lapansi ndipo palibe malonda omwe amagwiritsa ntchito anthu oposa 14 peresenti ya ogwira ntchito.
Mu 2015, Chicago analandira alendo oposa 52 miliyoni ochokera m'mayiko osiyanasiyana ndi apakhomo, ndipo adalandira umodzi mwa mizinda yapamwamba kwambiri yochezera. Chikhalidwe cha Chicago chimaphatikizapo zojambulajambula, mafilimu, mafilimu, masewero, makamaka mafilimu, nyimbo, makamaka jazz, blues, moyo, uthenga ndi nyimbo za nyumba.
Amakhalanso ndi magulu ochita masewera olimbitsa thupi m'gulu lalikulu la akatswiri a masewera. Chicago ali ndi mayina ambiri, odziwika kwambiri kukhala Windy City
Windy City
Chotheka chachikulu chofotokozera dzina lakutchulidwira la mzindawu ndilo, ndithudi, nyengo. Tsatanetsatane wa Chicago pokhala malo ozizira mwachilengedwe ndikuti ali m'mphepete mwa Nyanja Michigan.
Mphepo ya Frigid imawomba pa nyanja ya Michigan ndikudutsa m'misewu ya mumzindawo. Mphepo ya Chicago imatchedwa "Hawk."
Komabe, lingaliro lina lodziwika bwino liripo kuti "Windy City" inayamba kunena za anthu a Chicago omwe anali odzaza kwambiri ndi olemba ndale, omwe ankawoneka kuti anali "otentha kwambiri." Othandizira pa "windbag" kawirikawiri amatchula nkhani ya 1890 Mkonzi wa nyuzipepala ya New York Sun Charles Dana. Panthawiyo, Chicago anali kupikisana ndi New York kukalandira Chiwonetsero cha Worldwide cha 1893 (Chicago potsiriza anagonjetsa), ndipo Dana akuti adachenjeza owerenga ake kuti asamanyalanyaze "zonena zabodza za mzinda umenewo." Ambiri tsopano akutsutsa mfundoyi monga nthano.
Wofufuza Barry Popik watulukira umboni wakuti dzinali linakhazikitsidwa kale pofalitsidwa ndi zaka za m'ma 1870 - zaka zambiri Dana asanafike. Popik nayenso anakumba maumboni omwe akusonyeza kuti izo zimagwiritsidwa ntchito monga momwe zikutchulira kwenikweni nyengo ya mphepo yamkuntho ya Chicago ndi chibwibwi chamtundu wa anthu omwe amati ndi odzikuza. Popeza kuti Chicago anali atagwiritsira ntchito mphepo yake ya nyanjayi kuti idzilimbikitse ngati malo a tchuthi a chilimwe, Popik ndi ena adanena kuti dzina la "Windy City" lingayambe monga nyengo ndipo kenako likutanthauzira mobwerezabwereza pamene mbiri ya mzinda inadzuka cha m'ma 1900.
Chochititsa chidwi n'chakuti ngakhale kuti Chicago idatchulidwapo dzina lake chifukwa cha mphepo yamkuntho, silo tawuni yamoto kwambiri ku United States. Ndipotu, kafukufuku wa zamapiriku kawirikawiri amavomereza zomwe zimachitika ku Boston, New York, ndi San Francisco kukhala ndi mphepo yamkuntho yapamwamba kwambiri.