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America/Chicago

time zone covering the Central Time Zone of the United States
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America/Chicago

Summary

America/Chicago is an IANA time zone[1]. America/Chicago draws 14 Wikipedia views per month (iana_time_zone category, ranking #3 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • America/Chicago is in the country of United States[3].
  • America/Chicago's continent is recorded as Americas[4].
  • America/Chicago's instance of is recorded as IANA time zone[5].
  • Chicago is named after America/Chicago[6].
  • United States is named after America/Chicago[7].
  • America/Chicago's part of is recorded as Central Time Zone[8].
  • America/Chicago's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 6491494[9].
  • America/Chicago's UTC timezone offset is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q25235', 'amount': '-6'}[10].
  • America/Chicago's UTC timezone offset is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q25235', 'amount': '-5'}[11].
  • America/Chicago's IANA timezone ID is recorded as America/Chicago[12].

Body

Geography

America/Chicago is in the country of United States[3]. America/Chicago's continent is recorded as Americas[4]. America/Chicago's part of is recorded as Central Time Zone[8].

Designation and Status

America/Chicago's instance of is recorded as IANA time zone[5].

History and Context

Things named after include Chicago[6], a city of Illinois[13], in United States[14] and United States[7], a sovereign state[15], in United States[16], founded in 1776[17].

Why It Matters

America/Chicago draws 14 Wikipedia views per month (iana_time_zone category, ranking #3 of 3).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [13] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). America/Chicago. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/america-chicago
MLA “America/Chicago.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/america-chicago.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_america-chicago_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{America/Chicago}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/america-chicago}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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