Chicago

In this paper I will discuss whether the Chicago Heat Wave as written about in Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg, is best defined as a social or natural disaster. Klinenberg talks about each as a possible explanation for the Chicago Heat Wave. Like Klinenberg I believe that the Chicago Heat Wave was a natural disaster, there were record temperatures and the city could do little in defense when faced with situations like this. However, this explanation does not…

Loyola University Chicago is a Jesuit institution that promotes caring for others, caring for one’s self, and caring for the community. It is one of Loyola’s foundational aspect of caring for the community that has made the requirement of engaged learning a part of the curriculum. Since the Fall of 2012, Loyola has required its students to go out into the world and obtain hands-on experience in different sorts of fields. One may accomplish this through an internship course, or a class combined…

Chicago today represents the core values of America’s heartland-integrity, hard work and a sense of community. The multicultural city flourishes on the harmony and diversity of its neighborhoods and reflects these ideals in the social fabric of its districts. Steely skyscrapers and magnificent buildings vie with gourmet cuisine from top chefs and rock festivals to seek the people’s attention. The windy city wows its audience with its cultural awesomeness. Just as one roams around the city, an…

are Chicago Fire and Chicago PD. Seeing concepts used on different movies or television shows gives us a true understand of how we act in these type of situations in every day life. The ten concepts I picked are: first impressions, attractiveness, jargons, active listening, paraphrasing, volume,…

itself in direct competition with France, who had hosted the fair a few years earlier, Chicago had America’s reputation in its hands. Larson’s novel follows the short-lived exposition highlighting not only how it came to life, but what was occurring on the outside of the white city. Throughout the novel, Larson uses powerful imagery and tone to create the perception of Chicago the entire world shared. Chicago was a city that lacked sanitation and was overcome by filth, a city in no way fit to…

The walking tour in the loop is strange and interesting for me. I have been in Chicago for three years, and I don’t even know what the loop is. Where is the location of the loop, and the only thing I know about the loop is from the Redline. I don’t have a lot of time when I was in high school. Every day I just go to school and do my homework. This walking tour gets me knew more about the city of Chicago where I have been living for three years. I took this tour on Oct 11, afternoon. The weather…

Ten years ago, the city of Chicago, Illinois, made a bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Although they came close to victory, the International Olympic Commission (IOC) awarded the hosting rights to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, while Chicago was knocked out in the first round of voting (“Rio to host 2016 Olympics,” 2009). It was a memorable win for South America as Rio became their first city to ever host an Olympics. In contrast, Chicago’s loss left its own inhabitants with some mixed…

of the black experience in Chicago through segregation and the hidden or blatant racism Black people like me experience. The play is written by Lorraine Hansberry a black female writer that wrote A Raisin in the Sun for Broadway. Lorraine Hansberry is from Chicago and understands what it is like to live in segregated housing in the city. A Raisin in the Sun revolves…

killer in Chicago during the 1890’s. He tries to describe how Daniel Burnham, an architect, builds the Chicago World Fair in an innocent or white city while at the same time helps Henry Holmes, the devil in the innocent city, to satisfy his craving of power, blood, and fear. Burnham tries to give Chicago a more positive reputation, but it ends of having a bad reputation due to Henry Holmes. Holmes gives it the bad reputation because he finds his victims at the World’s Fair in Chicago. The…

Chicago of the 1890’s The Windy City, the White City, City by the Lake and even the Heart of America − Chicago has been known under different names underpinning its special role in the history of the United States. At the time, Paul Lindau, an author and publisher, described it as “a gigantic peepshow of utter horror, but extraordinarily to the point.” In what follows I would try to depict what Chicago was like at the end of the nineteenth century, it was a time known as “the gilded age” − an…