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| Geography |
| Chicago is located in northeastern Illinois at the southwestern
tip of Lake Michigan. When the city we know today was initially
founded in the 1830s the land was swampy and most of the early
building began around the mouth of the Chicago River. According
to the U.S. Census Bureau, Chicago has a total area of 606.1
km² (234.0 mi²), of which 588.3 km² (227.1 mi²)
is land and 17.8 km² (6.9 mi²) is water. The total
area is 2.94% water. The city has been built on relatively flat
land; the average height of land is 579 feet (176 metres) above
sea level. |
| The city lies beside Lake Michigan and two rivers, the Chicago
in Downtown Chicago and the Calumet in the industrial Far South
Side, entirely or partially flow through Chicago. Connecting
the Chicago River with the Des Plaines is the Chicago Sanitary
and Ship Canal. |
| The Chicago Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) consists of
Cook County and five surrounding Illinois counties as well as
the Chicago–Gary–Kenosha Consolidated Statistical
Area (CSA), which is made up of nine counties, two of them in
northwestern Indiana and one in southeastern Wisconsin. |
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