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Chicago
By Etienne Boissière,Thomas Potaire,Sonny Brabez,David Chan.
Chicago
Chicago Tourism
Chicago Tourism
3rd city in the USA
The flag
Chicago Tourism
• The ‘L’ train as “Elevated”• The ‘L’ loop around all downtown finished by
Charles Tyson Yerkes on October 3, 1897 • A total of 8 lines
The ‘L’
Chicago Tourism
• Green line: Clarke House Illinois Institute
of Technology
• Red line: U.S. Cellular
Field
• Orange line: Midway airport
South
Chicago Tourism
• Blue line: Old St Patrick church
• Green line: United Center sports arena Garfield Park Conservatory
• Blue line: Chicago O’Hare airport
West
Chicago Tourism
• Brown line: DePaul University
• Red line: Uptown Theatre Lincoln Park
North
Chicago History
• “Shikaawka”: Wild onion
• Potawatomi tribe
• French discovery (Marquette & Joliet)
• Swamp connected between Mississippi and Lake Michigan
1673-1803
Chicago History
• 1803 : Fort Dearborn
• Massacre of 1812
• 1837: Chicago incorporated as an official city
• Cholera issue and the Water Tower (Boyington)
1803-1871
Chicago History
• 1871: The Great Fire of Chicago
• O’Leary: “The cow did it?”
• Opportunity to rebuild downtown
1871
Chicago History
• Capitalists: Pullman, Swift and Fields
• 1886: Haymarket Riot
• 1887: “Haymarket Martyrs”
1871-1887
Chicago History
• Museums & Auditorium
• 1893: World’s Fair
• Slums of West side
• Al Capone
1887-1932
Chicago Economy & Industry
• Pork industry: biggest slaughterhouse The “Pork Wheel”
• Cattle industry: Swift & Company
• Grain elevator system
Historical industries
Chicago Economy & Industry
• Manufacturing
• Printing
• Publishing
• Food processing
• Major transportation center (hub)
Main industries
Atlanta - 1st Chicago - 2nd Paris - 8th0
200,000
400,000
600,000
800,000
1,000,000
1,200,000978,824
881,566
559,816
Total flight movements in 2008
Chicago Economy & Industry
• 5 times bigger compared to San Francisco
• 25 countries represented (Caucasian & Black)
• 2nd largest labor pool of the USA (4.25 millions of worker)
Demography
234.0 sq mi (606.1 km2)
46.7 sq mi (121 km2)
33.6 sq mi (86.9 km2)7 times smaller
1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 Est. 2008
0
500000
1000000
1500000
2000000
2500000
3000000
3500000
4000000
4470
3,376,438
Population growth (775% in 90 years)
43.23%
37.87%
4.48%
0.37%0.06% 13.99%
Percentage of races in Chicago
WhiteBlackAsianNative AmericanPacific IslanderOthers
Chicago Economy & Industry
• 3rd largest science & engineering work force in the USA
• 4th most important business center
• Chicago Board of Trade
• 3rd largest gross metropolitan product in the USA
Activities
Chicago Future
• Chicago Spire: announced in 2005
• Comparison with the Sears Tower
The next biggest skyscrapper?
Chicago Spire: est. 2,000 feetSears Tower: 1,451 feet
Chicago Interesting facts
• Inside Cook county
• Meat industry
• Rock’n roll McDonalds
• Chicago Pizza
The « Cook » city
Chicago Interesting facts
• Route 66
• 1st Remote control
• 1953: Playboy
Interesting facts
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