Chicago Prepares for NATO Summit

May 18, 2012 from Al Jazeera English

US president Barack Obama's hometown of Chicago is to be the venue of the NATO summit about the future of the foreign forces in Afghanistan, which commences on Sunday. With more than 60 heads of state to attend the summit and tens of thousands of protesters also expected to converge on the city, this is the biggest event in the US state of Illinois since the 1968 Democratic National Convention which ended brutally. Security is a primary concern and Obama's former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, now the mayor of the city, is tasked with seeing the event through without incident. Al Jazeera's John Hendren reports from Chicago.

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शिकागो अमरीका के इलिनाय प्रांत का पश्चिम-मध्य में सबसे बड़ा शहर है तीन मिलियन आबादी वाला यह शहर अमरीका का तीसरा सबसे बड़ी आबादी वाला शहर है। मिशिगन झील के दक्षिणी नोंक पर स्थित शिकागो विश्व का सबसे बड़ा रेलवे जंक्शन है। यहाँ तीस से भी अधिक रेलमार्ग मिलते हैं। मिशिगन झील पर स्थ... Explore this topic

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