Chicago (IPA: /ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ/), is the largest city in the state of Illinois and the largest in the Midwest. With a population of nearly 3 million people, Chicago is the third largest city in the United States. It is the anchor of the Chicago metropolitan area, commonly called Chicagoland, which has a population of over 9.7 million people in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, making it the third largest metropolitan area in the U.S. Rich in history and renowned for its innovative and influential architecture, Chicago is classified as an alpha world city.The City of Chicago is located almost entirely in Cook County, with a small portion of O'Hare International Airport (with only about 200 residents) overlapping into DuPage County. The metropolitan area extends over several counties. Located at the site of a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837. It rapidly became a major transportation hub, as well as the business, financial, and cultural capital of the Midwest.

The team of doctors and scientists at the trauma centre in Chicago Cook County hospital stunned 11 pigs with Taser guns in 2006, hitting their chests with 40-second jolts of electricity, pausing for 10 to 15 seconds, then hitting them for 40 more seconds. When the jolts ended, every animal was left with heart rhythm problems, the researchers said.

The 49-year-old officer was found about 1:40 p.m. in his Chevrolet Impala, which was parked with its engine running in Fairmount-Willow Hills cemetery, near 91st Street and Archer Avenue, Cook County sheriff's police spokeswoman Penny Mateck said.

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The article I read, started out reporting about the 2006 Democratic primary campaign for presidency of the Cook County Board of Commissioners. Mind you, this is fast coming on 2008 and the Presidential election. Why is she bringing up a campaign, in Chicago, that most of us don't give a rats-ass about?

The suspects are 24-year-old Antwon Robinson of Detroit and three Illinois residents -- 21-year-old Lauren Porter of Chicago Heights, 26-year-old Michael Cook of Dolton and 30-year-old Robert Jacox of Chicago.www.gioperation.blogspot.com