People from Chicago, Illinois

Route 66. Route 66 relates to leadership because it is running about 2,400 miles through Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, and California. The legacy behind Route 66 is that train engines were limited in the terrain they could cross, railroad routes were painstakingly chosen, so they built the route 66 for another option other than taking a train. The cause of Route 66 is because Cyrus Avery links Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California through his town Tulsa. Cyrus became interested in…

june 4,2001- sasha’s real name is Natasha),and married the 44th president of the united states of america. She went to harvard.How did she become famous:She became famous for the broMichelle LaVaughn Robinson was born on January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois, to parents Marian and Fraser Robinson. Although Fraser’s modest pay as a city-pump operator led to cramped living in their South Shore bungalow, the Robinsons were a close-knit family, with Michelle and older brother Craig pushed to excel…

of the minimum wage in the city of Chicago. I think it’s a social problem because the current minimum wage in Chicago, $10/hr (abc7chicago.com) is not nearly enough for people to live off of, and it impacts a gigantic number of people. About 329,000 people in Chicago make under $15 an hour [the proposed minimum wage] (Fortino 1). A social problem also involves people needing a resource that is not readily available to them, and in this instance, it involves people needing money that isn’t there…

could make the most profit? The workers have to start sacrificing their safety and wellbeing just to put food on the table. We, as Americans, live in a society today that has regulations set in place to ensure that every working citizen has rights. People fail to understand the history behind what it took for American workers to have these right, and Death in the Haymarket by James Green, explains the history behind American Capitalism. Death in the Haymarket makes the reader understand that as…

The Chicago Historical Society has created a digital collection of Haymarket Affair primary sources. Many of these historical documents capture the immediate news after the bombing or depicted a specific viewpoint. It is broken into seven subgroups: The Trial Documents, Published Materials, Additional Manuscripts, Artifacts, Broadsides, Photographs & Prints, and Wood Engravings. The trial documents are by far the most interesting primary source. They are broken down into five subgroups of…

English 9 4 March 2016 Surprisingly, one of the worst and most terrifying places in the United States is Chicago, Illinois. The crime rate is at an all time high and this is why it is so dangerous. All the way from robbing little corner stores on the street to drug trafficking from Mexico. You could say Chicago has it all. Most gangs that are around nowadays are all pretty much new to Chicago. Most of the ones that had first appeared had either slowly disappeared, or just been wiped out by…

Throughout my tour of the greater Chicago area, I saw countless of interesting things, from the people walking the streets to up to all the admirable buildings. While not knowing my way around the city I got lost multiple times which was very exasperating and time consuming, but my overall experience of walking the loop was somewhat tolerable. The two buildings that stood out me the most were the Willis Tower and the Kluczynski Federal Building. These two building stood out to me because of the…

Force is Chicago's Answer to Gun and Gang Violence In very recent history the media has covered multiple gun massacres in the U.S.A. many such as the one in Newtown, Connecticut in this 26 people were killed, a lot of them being young children. There was another infamous shooting being the tragic event of the Columbine High School massacre. These unfortunate and evil events have opened the closed eyes of Americans to the issue of gun violence. Due to these events repetitive arguments and…

office. This was shocking to a lot of people because there had been 43 men before him and none of them were African American. This was not only exciting but it also gave the people hope that things would change for the better. When the president got voted into office more people felt like they could relate to him. He didn’t just stand up for black people, he was the voice of all people from different religions, cultures, and ethnicities. Barack Obama is relatable from his upbringing, he is…

Background of desegregation In 1954 the Supreme Court instigated the course of desegregating American public education, Brown v. Board of Education, in a revolutionary resolution. Another powerful action came from Congress for school desegregation by the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act In 1971. The United States’ government turned actively against school desegregation in 1981 under the Reagan administration, in which, the Justice Department inverted policy on many undecided cases and…