Chicago

Chicago and Seattle: Two Different Stories Chicago, Illinois, is a huge city trying to work for people of all different races working to conduct business, while Seattle, Washington, operates for the same cause. They both operate under the same Constitution which was drawn up by the Founding Fathers of America centuries ago. They also operate under the same President, which is controversially a good leader. While this is true, both cities in the United States have different stories regarding…

The Chicago Times and the Chicago Turbine were two leading newspapers in the late 1890’s. Both of the newspapers had coverage of the Pullman Strike available to their readers. The Pullman Strike is an event in Illinois history where workers chose to walk out of their occupations due to the environment. The depression made the worker’s wages get cut by twenty-five percent. This cut was the cause of workers to have an enormous amount of stress, eventually leading to a strike against the…

Nindra Performance #1: Chicago. 3/1/16 This performance took place from February 24th through the 28th of 2016 in Russell Auditorium. The musical’s setting took place in the 1920’s and consisted of 2 acts. Chicago consisted of jazz music, liquor, sex, and it showed how corrupt the judicial system was back then. After the show I spoke to Nich Stinson, who performed as a member of the male ensemble, and he told me that the musical was based on a true story. The first act of Chicago left me in…

The cast of Chicago Med is finally starting to get figured out and they have added an amazing new cast member. TV Line shared the news tonight that Julie Berman has joined the cast. Fans know her from the hit daytime show General Hospital. Julie played the part of Lulu Spencer up until 2013 when she left the show to do other things. Emme Rylan replaced her on the show as Lulu and is still playing the part today. Fans were very upset to see her go, but a lot of them will follow Julie to her new…

Chicago in 1871 was a city ready to burn and the author Jim Murphy showed all the reasons why Chicago suffered the death rays of heat. First of all, most of the buildings were made up of wood. Wood is flammable and can make fire spread very easily. Almost every sidewalk in Chicago was made of wood as well, which would help out the fire. Some the buildings were made of stone though like factories, restaurants, and other buildings in the windy city but, they had a lot of flammable things in them…

gas company was introduced in 1849 by a group of citizens (Encyclopedia of Chicago). The company was named Chicago Gas Light & Coke Company from 1849-1855. The same group discovered that gas could not only be used to light up the streets with natural gas lamps, but could also be used inside the home for cooking purposes. In 1855 the gas company was renamed Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. which started delivering gas to its Chicago customers. During this time companies were able to talk and decide…

In early 20th century Chicago, the established ideas of functionalism and historicism manifested themselves in the conflicting theories of organicism and classicism. Although there were prominent classical resurgences during the City Beautiful movement and the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, these revivals did not align with what the Prairie and Chicago school had initiated – to conceive a modern, commercial metropolis.1 Because of the automation of the construction industry, these…

Chicago is a great city with even greater problems. With crime such as shootings, and homicides, at an all time high right now there is no doubt the city is falling apart. According to the Chicago Tribune, from January 1st, 2015 to December 6, 2015 the yearly total of shooting victims were 2,777 people. Not only does this number show how many people have died or been injured due to homicides or shootings, but it also gives everyone a view on the state of Chicago today. Our city is being greatly…

In the novel The Scarlet Letter and the play Chicago, there are many things throughout them that are similar, yet there are also many other things that make the two different. Some of the things that make the two alike is that both authors wrote about adultery, the authors are trying to show the readers that there are consequences to your actions, and that some of the characters share some of the same characteristics. Some of the things that make the two stories unique would be the setting, the…

we had everything and then we hit the road it was about 4:30 p.m. when we started to head to Chicago. I was excited because it was my first time being out of the state of Iowa. On the way down to Chicago we were listening to the Cubs game and they won that game and the next day was the game we were going to. We were sitting down the Left Field line in foul territory. In July of 2011 we were to Chicago for the second time. We are going with my family other than just the four of us. We…