Chicago metropolitan area

When I was a toddler, flashing lights would always catch my attention. For entertainment, my parents would watch films with settings in populous cities, but I only had eyes for New York. As a four-year-old donning an atrocious bowl cut, I knew that my heart belonged to the Big Apple. As I visited campus for the first time last summer, I was struck by the beauty and enormity of it all. It was the Butler Library that did it—the Butler Library, with its ornamental chandeliers and floor to ceiling…

Briefly alluding to the 1933 Chicago world’s fair also known as the “Century of Progress” exposition in celebration of the centennial anniversary of Chicago’s. The 1933 fair’s concept was to create a rainbow city in contrast to the 1893 World Columbian Exposition’s view of an idealized “white city”. The amusement zone followed a similar concept to its predecessor, and within the midway, one of it most popular attractions included a “Midget City” (fig.13). The midget city was filled with sixty…

The City of Evanston presents an interesting case study into the relationship between universities and the cities in which they reside. Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, is located in Cook County, Illinois and is the home to Northwestern University, a major research university. Northwestern’s 240-acre campus sits right outside the city’s central business district and serves more than 16,000 students. With the majority of the 8,000 undergraduate students living in on-campus housing or in the…

Chicago is a place I admire because of the beautiful city and people. When my sister asked to go on this trip with her I didn’t think twice about going. The buildings impress me, the life people live in a busy city interest me, the weather makes feel at home, having my sister with me makes me feel whole. We smile from ear to ear because we are experiencing something new, limits don’t exist in this picture we can reach for the stars. I can’t wait to be in the windy city once again. Endless…

When I went to Mexico it was a great experience. From the ride to my destination, it was beautiful looking out side of the window. It was nice going somewhere I don't know nothing about. Is was cool for me because i got to see where my mom and dad were raised in the same city. This shows me that you can have a different future from place you live. Mexico is a great place to go to vacation has great food and great places to go to. Ameca is the city that my parents were born in. Ameca is great…

Al Capone is commonly known to many as scar face Born in Brooklyn in New York City Al Capone’s parents were Italian immigrants, Capone made himself involved with gang activity at the age of 14 after having been expelled from school. He moved to Chicago to…

In this first chunk of the reading on the biography of Chicago, it goes over how the city came to be. It starts all the way back from the 1850’s when the city first started to expand. They had many troubles because of flooding but eventually overcame it and later started building, overcoming all of the past destruction that had once happened. In the early 1900’s Chicago started to industrialize and plants started popping up all around. Along with this there were plenty of people who were…

The day was March 25, 1911, no one would be able to forget when one of the most catastrophic tragedies on record not only in New York City, but in the history of the American industry transpired. This horrendous event will forever be known as The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Due to the inhumane working conditions and the rapidly spreading fire, 145 of the 600 employees had died an extremely miserable death during the disastrous event from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to…

Dallas, Texas, is one of the most vibrant an cosmopolitan cities in all of the world. On many levels, Dallas is the cultural, entertainment, commercial and recreational capital of the Lone Star State despite the fact that there really are so many truly spectacular cities and towns in Texas. Dallas is the third largest city in Texas and the ninth largest city in the United States as a whole. Dallas has a humid, subtropical climate with rather hot summers and yet usually mild winters. Situated…

Chicago in 1893: Bright City, Dark Menace In the historical novel “The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America,” author Erik Larson portrays Chicago as both the city of opportunity and simultaneously as a hotbed of crime and human exploitation (Larson). Chicago in the 1890’s was quite rough because jobs and murders have made the city a place of both danger and opportunity. Numerous murders have led to turmoil in the city. In addition, the changes that…