Chicago biography

From the side it resembles the sea more: there are high waves on it, and even real storms; In the area, this is the fifth lake in the world - almost double the larger Baikal. Michigan holds a clear eastern border of the city, while Chicago is not western: it is located on a perfectly flat plain on a typical for the middle West, along which one -story residential development stretches to the horizon.

Several rivers flow into the lake, among them the Chicago River of the city of the city of the city is now almost completely man -made. The channels changed not only its channel, but also the direction of the current; Once she fell into Michigan, and now follows from him. The river does not play a big role in the city landscape: the development does not part in front of it, but, on the contrary, is compacted, as if squeezing the channel in a vice.

On the other hand, the pedestrian path along the river - Chicago Riverwalk - has become one of the key Chicago attractions. History [edit] Monument to the Chicago dragging a little more than the years, however, the name of Chicago from the word Shikaakwa, which in the language of local Indians meant “Wild bow” was known to ancient people in the context of the river and the Chicago dragging Chicago Portage on the waterway, connecting the great lakes, and with them all the eastern eastern The coast, with the Mississippi basin, that is, the inside of the North American continent.

The Europeans first learned about Dylok in the year, but the idea in this place came only a hundred years later to a black Frenchman named Du Sable du Sable, who decided to develop trade here. Pretty soon he moved to the West to control the ferry through Missouri, where trade apparently went better, but the US authorities in the year built Fort Darborn in the mouth of the Chicago Fort River - in honor of Henry Dirborn, a veteran of the war for independence and with varying success, they defended him from unfinished Indians.

When the Indians were finally defeated at the beginning of x, the fort was demolished, and the city immediately arose in its place. Pretty soon the channel was complemented, and then replaced the railways. Going into Chicago, they only strengthened its role as the main city of the Middle West, where migrants who were traveling to America flocked to America. If in the year Chicago was not yet on the map, then by the year the population of the city exceeded millennia.

Huge national communities have developed - Czech, Polish, German, Swedish, Italian. Many of them later dissolved in the American melting boiler, the reduced version of which was always Chicago, but some traditions have been preserved, and others like Polish sausages and Italian pizza have become local brands, behind which tourists are now going to the city. The Home Insurance Building building - the first fire in the world of skyscraper in the year destroyed the most part of Chicago and changed the whole approach to urban planning: the city began to grow not only lush, but also up.

Home Insurance Building is considered the first skyscraper in the year building home insurance building; It had 10 floors, 42 meters of height and a metal frame, which opened the way to use in the construction of reinforced concrete. With the onset of the 20th century, the floor house ceased to seem serious, so that in the year it was simply demolished to build a new one, on 45 floors.

Modern Chicago Dauntown is one of the largest in America. With numerous buildings in the style of Ar-Deco, he is not inferior to New York either in spectacularity or in architecture. With all the desire, the development of the city of lice also did not stop. By the end of the 19th century, heavy industry came in Chicago, metallurgical plants arose on the outskirts, and later oil refining.

The new wave of migration, which began with the advent of the 20th century and took a decline only during the years of great depression, included not Europeans, but mainly guests from the south - first of all, the black population of the southern states. They, too, did not rode empty -handed, carrying their own culture with them. If jazz originated in New Orleans, and Louis Armstrong only brought him to Chicago, being already a performer, then the blues only here grew out of acoustic folk music into a full -fledged musical style.

What is now called blues is often the Chicago blues, and the famous Blues standard Sweet Home Chicago is dedicated to the very migrants from the south, who searched their new home in the city. After the Second World War, the population reached a peak of 3. It is impossible to understand where Chicago ends, although, strictly speaking, it does not end at all, safely choking the neighboring states with its suburbs: Indiana in the southeast and Wisconsin in the north.

The modernity [edit] experts call Chicago a city with a very diversified economy. On the outskirts, both oil refining and metallurgy were preserved - without apocalyptic landscapes, but with smoking pipes and semi -kilometer goods, taking, as if along the Trans -Siberian, metal and coal. The center of Chicago at the same time business and modern: corporations such as Boeing and McDonald's are based in the city, and on weekdays the dirty Chicago metro is filled with neat, well -dressed employees of all these companies.

A important role in the life of the city is played by tourism.Each year, over 50 million people come to Chicago - this is several times more than in Venice or Prague. Like any large city, Chicago cannot be called tourist - it does not live for the sake of tourists and not at their expense - but in popular places here is always crowded. However, it costs nothing to escape from these crowds: the city is so great that everyone will find a corner in its soul, although it may have to look for a long time.

Moreover, even the Russian film "Brother-2" dir. Alexey Balabanov, partially starred in Chicago. The climate [edit] Chicago, like the entire Middle West, differs unpredictable, often unpleasant weather. The lake freezes, sometimes kilometers from the shore; There are strong snowfalls that violate the city’s life: public transport does not walk, most flights are canceled. It is better to go to the city in spring or autumn, although at this time you need to be prepared for surprises.

Comfortable sunny weather can be replaced by rain with snow in a few hours, and the wind in Chicago blow almost always and sometimes makes walks around the city unpleasant. Orientation [edit] very roughly chicago can be divided into the very center, adjacent areas and endless suburbs. The center, aka Dauntown - is the area of ​​skyscrapers on both sides of the river: Loop on the south coast and Near North Side on the North.

The LOOP name in Chicago is often used as a downtown synonym. Here, the most “official” attractions, and this whole area is one big attraction. The panorama of skyscrapers from the side of the lake is perhaps the most beautiful and characteristic Chicago landscape. The areas adjacent to the center are paradise for lovers of national color. You can get to these areas from the center on the subway, and if you wish, do not go on foot, but do not neglect with transport: a walk in several such areas will easily stretch to a km.

In the suburbs, on the contrary, there is no color - or rather, it is averagedly American, and the main interest is the unprincipled way of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the ideologists of American architecture of the 20th century.

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