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Chicago Public Schools	+ Profile Chicago Public Schools is currently the third largest school district in the United States, with more than 407,000 students enrolled in 675 public elementary and high schools in Chicago, Illinois.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	+ Profile Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is U.S. public corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores worldwide. Wal-Mart is the largest majority private employer and the largest grocery retailer in the United States.
Advocate Health Care	+ Profile Advocate Health Care is a faith-based, not-for-profit health delivery system and the largest health care provider in Illinois with more than 200 sites of care including 9 acute-care hospitals and 2 childrens hospitals and employing over 28,000 people.
Walgreen Co.	+ Profile The Walgreen Company is the largest drugstore chain in the United States, operating over 7,500 drugstores across all 50 states. Employs over 13,000 in the Chicago area.
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.	+ Profile JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.1 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management, and private equity. Employs over 13,000 in the Chicago area.
Abbott Laboratories	+ Profile Abbott Laboratories is a pharmaceuticals health care company headquartered in Abbott Park, Illinois with operations in over 130 countries. Abbott also manufactures a broad range of medical devices, diagnostics and immunoassay products as well as nutritional products and supplements. Employs over 13,000 in the Chicago area.
AT&T Inc.	+ Profile AT&T Inc. is the largest provider of fixed telephony in the United States, and a major provider of broadband and subscription television services, and mobile telephony service (with over 85.1 million wireless customers in the U.S.). Over 13,000 Chicago area employees.
UAL Corp.	+ Profile United Air Lines, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of UAL Corporation, is a major airline based in the U.S. and one of the worlds largest airlines. With corporate offices in Chicago, Uniteds largest hub is Chicagos OHare International Airport. Employees over 13,000 people in the Chicago area.
Chicago Transit Authority	+ Profile Chicago Transit Authority, also known as CTA, operates the nations second largest public transportation system and covers the City of Chicago and 40 surrounding suburbs. On an average weekday, approximately 1.7 million rides are taken on the CTA. Over 10,000 Chicago-area employees.
Motorola Inc.	+ Profile Motorola, Inc. is a multinational, Fortune 100 telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. A manufacturer of wireless telephone handsets, the company also designs and sells wireless network infrastructure equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers, and home and broadcast network products including set-top boxes, digital video recorders, and network equipment. Over 10,000 Chicago-area employees.
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↓ "Additional major employers in Chicago include: Archer Daniels Midland Co., Allstate Corp., Kraft Foods Inc., Abbott Laboratories and Deere & Co.

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Chicago is a major world financial center, with the second largest central business district in the U.S. The city is the headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (the Seventh District of the Federal Reserve). The city is also home to three major financial and futures exchanges, including the Chicago Stock Exchange, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (the "Merc"), which includes the former Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). Perhaps due to the influence of the Chicago school of economics, the city also has markets trading unusual contracts such as emissions (on the Chicago Climate Exchange) and equity style indices (on the U.S. Futures Exchange).

The city and its surrounding metropolitan area are home to the second largest labor pool in the United States with approximately 4.25 million workers.

Manufacturing, printing, publishing and food processing also play major roles in the city's economy. Several medical products and services companies are headquartered in the Chicago area, including Baxter International, Abbott Laboratories, and the Healthcare Financial Services division of General Electric."

-- Chicago. (2009, October 23). InWikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:06, October 24, 2009, fromhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chicago&oldid=321657143

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