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that Chicago be the home for the World Columbian Exposition of 1893. The architects and city planners of Chicago envisioned a city that would “surpass the brilliance of the Paris…

Bay. Silver Bay was the best location because it was directly off the bay of Lake Superior. It also had the best private school designed for the student who lived out in the woods, because it was a lot harder for the students to make it to class on time because of all the snow delays. Minnesota was the coldest location of all the states I have lived in, and by far my favorite. I lived in Minnesota from age eleven to age fourteen, from there I moved to Florida to be closer to…

In the global city of Washington, DC, gentrification related to affordable housing and social/racial tensions is becoming more and more prevalent. This, in turn, is affecting the future of the community and having adverse implications for the city’s old and new inhabitants. Gentrification is the practice of revitalizing or reforming a community to appeal to higher-class tastes, most often the tastes of the white middle-class. While gentrification is sometimes associated with increases in…

Most of the painting is painted using different tints or shades of colors because the colors used are different hues with added white to make them brighter, like the sky to the right of the painting, or added black to make them darker, like where the sun does not reach on the long side of the St. Mary’s Cement building. The use of primary, secondary, tertiary, and complementary colors brings the separate parts of the painting into a cohesive landscape. An example of a primary color being used is…

became convinced that it would be a good thing to rent a house in a part of the city where many primitive and actual needs are found” (Addams, 48). Addams then went on to buy a 43,560 ft^2, later known as the Hull House, in a poor neighborhood of Chicago, with her friend Ellen Gates Starr. The Hull House remained her home until her death in 1935. These early experiences, all before the age of 30, helped mold Jane Addams into the reformer she became. Addams didn’t have any financial backing or…

The beautiful streets in Chicago were once burning buildings and smoke, the waters were once bridges leading on the flames, but what does Chicago look like now? The Great Chicago Fire was a devastating event. The fire left many areas in ashes, but now they have rebuilt their city into a modern town with many skyscrapers and monuments. Chicago's architecture has transformed the town because they have fixed the construction issues flaws of 1871, Chicago was built from ashes and now plays an…

The well known and respected activist Jane Addams wrote and delivered a speech in honor of George Washington’s birthday to Chicago’s Union League Club on February 23, 1903. Within the course of her speech she affirms her views on the significance of George Washington’s legacy. In addition, she uses George Washington’s legacy to make a point about the then-modern day society that she and the audience lived in. In order to effectively communicate her point, Jane Addams uses lots of rhetorical…

lifestyle by the age of 30. Living that lifestyle, always comes with a price; especially if it’s not legal at all. Alphonse Gabriel “Al” Capone rose in the 1930s to become one of the most notorious mob bosses in history. His actions not only affected the Chicago area, but had a major impact on the gangster himself. Prohibition, Gambling Dens, Whorehouses, and Gang Murders all made him the popular mob boss that everyone knows about today. Capone was born on January 17th, 1899 in Brooklyn, New…

to a 2016 audience in Chicago. And in saying so, there are plenty of parallels to draw within the setting of the show and the Chicago area itself. Washington Heights, the small, urban neighborhood in which In the Heights takes place, compares to many of Chicago’s smaller neighborhoods. In being similar to Washington Heights (along with holding the mutual relationship of just being a part of a large urban city in the United States of America), various neighborhoods in Chicago have a vibrant…

questions seek to garner information that will have a direct and positive impact on Chicago communities. Current research on the economic impact of presidential libraries does not delve into the effects on the communities where they are located; rather, scholarship focuses solely on economic outgrowth (Clark, 2015; Hufbauer, 2005). By critically analyzing the interconnectivity between economics and life expectancy in Chicago, we can begin to address the larger questions in the fields of…