Fun facts about Chicago
(all figures represent the city proper and not Chicagoland as a whole unless otherwise noted)

33 million visitors a year
30,000 hotel rooms
6,500 restaurants
1,212 neighborhood taverns
83 hotels

1,800 hot dog stands
150 million Vienna Beef hot dogs are sold annually
6 million Giordano's pizzas sold (10 million in Chicagoland)

29% of Chicagoland adults 21 and older drank a light beer in the last month
26% drank an import
24% had regular beer
6% a microbrew
18% drank vodka

32,859 parking meters
2,675,238 parking tickets written through November
3,025,214 written in 2005

50 Wards
198 Neighborhoods
552 public parks
70 museums
200 parades per year

5,012 firefighters and paramedics
47,330 fire hydrants
148,000 manholes

13,000 licensed taxi drivers
6,300 taxis are on the streets at any given moment of the day.
8 motion pictures were shot in the city and suburbs this year
217 since 1980

48% of Chicagoans are male
52% female
26% are under 18 years old
33.1 is the median age
37% of Chicagoans speak a language other than English as their primary/first tongue.

39% are white
36% black
5% Asian
20% of other races
29% Hispanic
(totals include mixed race persons who fall in one or more category, thus exceeding a 100% total)

22% were born in another country
78% were born in America (including territories/possessions)
58% were born in Illinois

293,703 take public transportation to work daily
63,580 walk to work daily
34.3 minutes is the average commute.

(Source: The Chicago Tribune)