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Chicagoland's greater metropolitan area of 7 million inhabitants makes it, after New York, one of the most important business and cultural centers in the United States. The Chicago area has a gross regional product of $303 billion annually- larger than either Switzerland or Taiwan. Chicago's O'Hare airport is the busiest U.S. airport with direct flights to most major international cities.

Chicago and the Midwest has traditionally been the "second" hub of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry, with major companies such as Abbott Labs and Baxter International headquartered here, and Eli Lilly in nearby Indianapolis. Although the pharmaceutical ranks have been thinned due to recent mergers (Upjohn in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and G.D. Searle in Chicago were both acquired by Pharmacia), the arrival of two major Japanese pharmaceutical companies to the U.S., Takeda and Fujisawa, to establish a stronger U.S. presence with a U.S. headquarters in Chicago has solidified this hub. Motorola, a well-known hi-tech player, has also branched into the interface of this technology with biotechnology. Chicago is home to 35 of the Fortune 500 companies in the U.S.

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