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Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago City is the third largest city in the United States, with three million populations. It’s located in the state of Illinois. It’s land area around two hundred and thirty-seven square miles, it has dozens of cultural institutions, historical sites and museums, more than two hundred theaters and two hundred art galleries, seventy-seven community area contains more than one hundred neighborhoods, fifteen bathing beaches. The City of Chicago occupying

these circumstances have transformed the once small suburban town of Aurora into one of the largest city in Illinois. Aurora’s size, density, and diverse population have made it the city it is today. Although, Aurora is drastically different than Chicago, it still possessed the key characteristics of a city while remaining unique. From the cities infancy Aurora has been a front-runner in innovation, in fact; Aurora was the first town in Illinois to light its streets with electric lights, and with

destination as explained by Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins in "The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes". Chicago, Illinois shamelessly uses these methods to highlight the art, landscape, and attractions of the city in their tourism advertisements and to detract from the issues with crime rates, safety, and poverty that are depicted in newspapers such as The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Reporter, and The New York Times. These sources as well as "Community characteristics and in-school criminal

impossible problem, when I got stuck on Chicago. I’ve never really been to Chicago, that stuck thing was a metaphor, but when I think of Chicago I think of bears and bulls and cubs. Chicago seems like a place with lots of meat. Not real clear on why, but in my head Chicago is a meaty place.1 The Chicago, in my head, has a sound too, the clarinet and saxophones first danced with the horns and rhythms of jazz happened in Chicago and I hear that in its name.2 Chicago, in my head, is full of grit, big people

and knocked over and set the barn on fire. The fire start at 9:00pm the fire finally ended on Sunday evening the cause of this gigantic fire was the cow. The fire was terrible the fire spread from Chicago to Illinois the river caught on fire to. The fire was a horrific accident. The fire was in Chicago on 173 DeKoven Street this was a manmade disaster by something or someone tipping the lamp over. 300 people died, 100,000 people had to find new homes. The outcome was that millions of people’s

one mile above sea level. Chicago, Illinois holds one of the tallest skylines in the world, including three of the five tallest buildings in America. The two cities vary dramatically, one is surrounded by Building’s and the other mountains. Chicago has multiple famous buildings and sculptures including the Willis tower. It’s also well known by many as the Sears tower, it is the second tallest skyscraper in America and eight tallest in the world. One famous sculpture Chicago is known for is the Cloud

the city of Chicago while discovering immigrants’ needs for a hospitals, orphanages, and Catholic schools. Despite encountering opposition for community members the Sisters brought many firsts to Chicago. The Sisters of Mercy led by Agatha O’Brien and Frances Warde came to the city of Chicago in 1846 in hopes of building upon the city with what they had to offer. They were drawn to Chicago because of Rev. William Quarter, the city's first Catholic bishop. When they arrived in Chicago, it was only

The First Industrial Revolution occurred from 1780-1850 and changed the way people lived and worked worldwide. New technologies and manufacturing processes were changing lives across the globe. These synergistic advances led to more developments and social consequences began to arise. The way people worked was changing as well as the way they would live. Urbanization was one significant social consequence that was caused by the First Industrial Revolution. Urbanization is the growth of a city, and

professions, or activities, should be regarded as the main reason for Chicago’s remarkable development. The subsection “Gateway Rivalry: Chicago and St. Louis” offers many examples that debunk the idea of “natural advantage”; in fact, this particular section aims to mock the “boosters” by citing their stance as the reason that prevents St. Louis from growing as rapidly as Chicago. A bulk of the author’s argument rests on proving that railroads—with emphasis on the notion that people invented them—were the

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte: A Sunday Today was a beautiful day for a drive to Chicago. My purpose would be to visit my first art museum, The Art Institute of Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago is a must visit. I was tasked to choose a piece of art, study the piece, and then write about this piece. It was a very difficult task, to choose just one single piece. The Art Institute is the home to an enormous amount of art work, from paintings to pottery, from Impressionism to Contemporary, from