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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…

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…

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…

difficult, especially if were talking about Chicago and Atlanta. Picking were to live has to come down to where I feel most comfortable. There are three sections that are going to help me choose like nature, entertainment and how close they are to other cool states. Choosing where to live for me comes down to nature. Nature plays a big role on where I choose to move to it has to be a big open space where I can go out and have fun I nature. Like in Chicago they have lake Michigan where instead…

Philadelphia is the home of cheesesteaks. A cheesesteak is a hot sandwich with thin sliced sautéed beef with melted cheese and usually onions on a 6inch or foot long roll. Cheesesteaks come from Philadelphia; the proper name is Philly cheesesteaks. In 1930 a man by the name Pat Oliveri who was a hot dog vendor originated the “philly” cheesesteak. One day Oliveri decided to grill some beef from his butcher. In the middle of Oliveri grilling a taxicab driver loved what he smelled and asked for a…

In the book, “The Suburb Reader” by Becky W. Nicolaides and Andrew Wiese, while reading chapter 9, Postwar America, there were many things that got my attention while reading it. This chapter talks about how there was many Americans that move from the city to the suburban areas during that Great Depression and the World War II because of the economy status during this time. These wars made the housing shortage in a very crisis levels. During this time because of the need that all these Americans…

An idyllic suburban residential community on Chicago's North Shore, Glencoe, Illinois consists mainly of single-family homes, occupied by their owners. The four square mile village is home to approximately 8,762 people, most of whom are professionals who earn over $100,000 per year. From kindergarten to eighth grade, Glencoe's children attend one of the three age-centered schools operated by Glencoe School District 35, followed by attendance at the New Trier Township High School. The high…

New York City is the most populous city in the United States. It has as many as 800 languages with an estimated 18.9 million people. New York is the 27th most extensive, the 3rd most populous, and the 7th most densely populated of the 50 United States. New York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Although New York City is the largest city in the country, much of New York is still rural. Albany is its state capital. New York is composed of five boroughs in which there…

Cultural Diversity in Chicago According to the Book “Lost Chicago”; the recorded history begins with two extraordinary Frenchmen, Jacques Marquette, and Louis Jolliet. In 1673, on their way back to Green Bay, following their exploration of the Mississippi, Marquette and Jolliet crossed the Chicago portage. “They found the countryside along the Illinois River rich and full of promise.” In July of 1803, Captain John Whistler, under orders from General Henry Dearborn, came to Chicago to build…

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…