British Passport Chicago

Chicago is America’s third-most-populous city and its metropolitan area, known as Chicagoland, has a population approaching 10 million people. Chicago is a vibrant international city with a robust economy that is the corporate headquarters for 57 Fortune 1000 companies including Boeing, McDonald’s, United Airlines, Caterpillar, Kraft, Heinz, US Foods, Walgreens, and Abbott Laboratories. While manufacturing and food processing provide a strong foundation for its economy, the city is also an important financial center and is home to the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

From its food to its music, Chicago is a very American city. This is a Midwestern city with stereotypically friendly people that enjoy baseball and hot dogs, but is also an ambitious city known for hard-charging businesspeople and notorious gangsters like Al Capone. Chicago is the starting location of one of America’s most famous highways—Route 66—and is also a railroad hub connecting the eastern states to the American West. The world’s first skyscraper was built in Chicago and was also the home of famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, whose Welsh roots influenced his architectural style.

While British culture did not have much of an historical influence on this quintessential American city, Chicago played an important role in helping the United Kingdom defeat the Axis powers by producing steel and other military supplies needed during World War II. Today Chicago is a sister city of Birmingham, England; two places whose identities are based on their industrial heritage and status as second-cities (if we consider that Chicago is second to New York City and Los Angeles, and Birmingham is second to London).

While Chicago is often overlooked by British visitors to the United States who seek the sunshine of Los Angeles or excitement of New York, more and more executives are moving to Chicago as British firms like Dyson, BP, Willis Group, and Pearson Education continue their brisk business in America. There are over 150,000 British tourists visiting Chicago each year, taking advantage of the multiple nonstop flights from London to Chicago’s O’Hare Airport through British Airways, American Airlines, United Airlines, and Norwegian Air.

Chicago is home to one of eight British consulates in the United States, providing services to British nationals in Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. If you are a British national and require urgent assistance, you can reach the consulate by calling +1 312 970 3800. The British consulate in Chicago can also provide an emergency passport if you are stuck abroad and need to return quickly to the United Kingdom.

Here is their physical address:

British Consulate General Chicago

625 N Michigan Avenue, Suite 2200
Chicago IL 60611
USA

For those U.K. citizens or other British nationals that live in the United States and require a new 10-year British passport, you must apply online through the U.K. government website.

If you have difficulty applying online for a British passport and require assistance with this process, please give our office a call or schedule an appointment with our company. We are a private agency in the United States providing British passport services to U.K citizens living in North America. Our number one goal is to ensure your application documents for a passport are submitted accurately to Her Majesty’s Passport Office in the United Kingdom. Our services eliminate delays and give you the peace of mind to focus on your travel plans.

We provide the following British passport services for our customers: