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"46 million visitors to Chicago" - knowing Chicago and its corrupt nature you probably counted folks commuting to the city by Metra from Wisconsin, Indiana and suburban Illinois.
Let's look at the number of international visitors, While New York is number one, Chicago is nowhere on the list at all!
Yes, NYC received 7.6M foreign visitors while Chicago did not make the list at all, meaning it received less foreign visitors than the last city on the list: Washington with 1.2M visitors.... How about this? How come interntional tourists don't care for Chicago? Do they know something that you don't?
WASHINGTON -- New York got a record-setting 7.6 million foreign visitors last year, making it the U.S. city most visited by travelers from overseas, according to the U.S. Commerce Department.
Following New York on the list of top U.S. destinations for foreigners were Los Angeles (2.7 million); Miami (2.3 million); San Francisco (2.3 million); Orlando (2.1 million); Las Vegas (1.7 million); Honolulu (1.6 million); and Washington (1.2 million), the Commerce Department said.
Miami jumped two spots in becoming the third most-visited destination, showing a 19 percent increase in 2007. Las Vegas and Honolulu traded positions as Honolulu registered a decline, mainly due to a drop in Japanese travel to the U.S. More than 75 percent of Honolulu's visitors are from Japan.
Among states, New York State was first, followed by California with 5.2 million foreign visitors, and Florida, with 4.7 million foreign visitors.
The Commerce Department said spending by international travelers added $122 billion to the domestic economy. -- The Associated Press
On the list of national attractions Chicago's Navy Pier is number 10 with 8.6M visitors while 36M people visited Time Square making it a number 1 tourist attraction.
Notably, Golden Gate in SF was visited by 14M people....
Why don't you give it up? You know nobody cares for Chicago and this trend is even more visible when you look at international visitors... And yes, San Francisco atracted more foreign visitors (not commuters) than Chicago...
Oh look, another troll attacking the character of a city. I guess that jsut shows your character.
Just because you're a troll and your 3 other troll friends have led this thread astray doesn't mean it's okay. It's not about New York City in the slightest. It's about Chicago and San Francisco. Why are you up so early at your age, kid?
Yet and still chicago received 46million visitors last year regardless of where they traveled from...and no I didnt do any counting...you found everything else you can fiind this...lol
When you talk about LA being the largest are you referring to the extended CSA that includes LA, Orange, San Bernadino, Riverside, and Ventura county?
It's good that you identify Chicago so strongly with the Midwest because Chicago is the preeminent and undisputed hub and focal point for the (primarily East North Central) Midwest while LA is the hub for southern California but not so much the rest of California or most of the Southwest since the urbanized areas aren't as strongly connected as Chicago is to the rest of the Midwest. It's really that and the large degree of influence that Chicago has on global commerce that makes Chicago an arguable contender for a higher "ranking" than LA.
Jeez. I never thought of Chicago as being underrated or underestimated but I guess it is by people around the country. I'm not speaking about anyone specifically on this thread. Just making a general observation of where this conversation has gone.
Even when Houston passes Chicago in population (which sorry Chicago, but it looks like that is going to happen with in the next decade), Houston will still be far behind Chicago on many different levels such as finance, GDP, culture, education (as in colleges), and many other categories. Chicago is much more comparable to a city like New York than Houston, and this is coming from a person who was born and raised in Texas and now lives in Houston.
It's really pathetic that there are people out there who are willing to spend inordinate amounts of time, going so far as to re-register multiple times under different screen names (which, BTW, involves setting up ficitious email addresses to associate with the new user account--in other words, it takes a degree of effort), just to show up on an Internet message board and act like an a$$clown.
The mind reels.
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How about this? How come interntional tourists don't care for Chicago? Do they know something that you don't? 
It's about Chicago and San Francisco. Why are you up so early at your age, kid?