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I think the suggestion to look at the progressions in music you admire. Different genres have very different practices.
But generally, as the good examples people here have posted show, the most important thing for a chorus progression to do is to resolve back to the beginning of the next verse.
The easiest way to do that is to end the chorus on the V7 chord of the root chord of the key you're in. If you're in C, like your progression, the V7 would be a G7. (G is the fifth note in the C scale, that's why the chord built on it is called a V.)
So if you end the chorus in a G7, the change back to the C chord starting the next verse will be smooth.
It's also pretty common for a chorus to begin on the IV chord. In C, that would be an F. This is all a very basic, generalized "rule of thumb," but if you look at the progressions the other folks listed, you'll see that with some variation, it's pretty much what they're saying.
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