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Flights to Chicago
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Chicago is the biggest city in the state of Illinois, the largest in the Midwest, and has a population of 2.8 million people making it the third-most populous city in the United States. The Chicago metropolitan area has a population of over 9.5 million people in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, making it also the third largest metropolitan area in the United States. Chicago is regarded as the financial, business, and cultural capital of the Midwest. It is also a transportation hub of North America. The city also boasts of being among the ten most influential cities of the world. Owing to its importance in the international arena every day dozens of flight lands the city. All the international flights to Chicago land in either Midway International Airport on the south side or O'Hare International Airport, one of the world's busiest airports, on the far northwest side.
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In 2005, O'Hare was given the title of world's busiest airport by aircraft movements and the second busiest in terms of total passenger traffic. Both the airports are owned and controlled by the City of Chicago.
Other minor airports include:
Gary/Chicago International Airport located in Gary, Indiana, is about 25 miles from the Chicago loop
Chicago/Rockford International Airport in Rockford, runs scheduled airline service to Denver, Las Vegas, St. Petersburg/Clearwater, and Orlando Sanford.
Previously, Meigs Field was another minor Chicago airport.
The city has the third largest gross metropolitan product in the nation - approximately over $440 billion according to 2007 surveys. Chicago also holds the title of the most balanced economy in the United States. Chicago has also been named as the fourth most important business center in the world. Because of being such an important business center thousands of people flock in the city every day from all corners of the world. So all the flights to Chicago are filled up most of the time.
The city is also a hub of tourism; more than 25 million foreign and domestic visitors came to Chicago every year. Luxury shopping, classy restaurants, Chicago's position as a global architectural capital- these entire features draw millions of tourists every year. They all book the flights to Chicago from different parts of the world.
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