become a major center of finance with a large number of banks, many of them foreign. The Medical Center is the world's largest hospital complex and a leading medical research facility. Houston is served

The East Side, located between the eastern bank of the Fox River and the Kane/DuPage County line, and the Far East Side/Fox Valley, which is from the County Line to the city's eastern border with Naperville.

worst job and housing markets due to the bankruptcy of Bank in 1982 and then the post 1985 crash in oil prices.In 2013, ranked Oklahoma City No. 8 on its list of the Best Places for Business and Careers.