This is your essay question. It summarizes what you learned in this course. Use APA format.

Essay Question

Through GEO class materials to write an essay about global forces and local diversity in Chicago. Chicago, on Lake Michigan in Illinois, is among the largest cities in the U.S. What are FOUR of the most important concepts you learned in the class that best help you better understand this place or region? Why is this place and these concepts important to you? How do these concepts help you understand the place? How are the global processes connected to this local place?

Key concepts – Choose Four of Them (Readings are in the files)

Among the key concepts geographers use to understand global patterns of human

activity and the processes that operate among people and places are:

diffusion, population distribution & dynamics

ethnicity

globalization

push/pull factors

Human Development Index

industrialization

post industrialization

urban structure

gentrification

primary, secondary, and tertiary economic activities