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Only in Chicago
Only in Chicago
Dr. Rey TyNorthern Illinois University
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Only in Chicago• Ferry Wheel
• 26 storey's tall
• Each car was the size of a streetcar
Only in Chicago•Museum of Science & Industry
Only in Chicago•Burnham designed D.C., Chicago, Manila & Baguio
Only in Chicago•Lake Front is public domain
Only in Chicago•Lakefront: 18 ½ miles bike & walking trail
Only in Chicago•Softball 1887•Harvard & Yale alumni in Chicago
Only in Chicago• 1930s World’s Fair:• Today’s McCormick Convention Center
Only in Chicago• Human-Made Island: planned
to be U.N. site• Airport: lease expired 1996• Prairie; bird “hospital”
Only in Chicago• Soldier Field
–Kept the Roman façade
–Updated interiors
Only in Chicago•Field Museum
–Invented taxidermy
Only in Chicago• Shedd Aquarium–Philippine Wild Reef Exhibit
–17 tons of Philippine Sand
Only in Chicago• Field Museum–Large collection of Philippine taxidermy
Only in Chicago• May First
International Labor Day
•五一国际劳动节• Wǔyī guójì
láodòng jié
Only in Chicago•Grant’s statue is in Lincoln Park.
Only in Chicago•Lincoln’s statue is in Grant Park.
Only in Chicago• Montgomery
Ward (of Montgomery Ward mail order company) fought to have lake front parks in Chicago as belonging to the people.
Only in Chicago•Chicago invented Fire pole.
Only in Chicago•Venetian Night.
Only in Chicago•Obama’s Victory Speech, Grant Park, Nov. 4, 2008
Only in Chicago• Buckingham
Garden (patterned after but 2x larger than Versailles’)
• Represent Lake Michigan
• 4 fishes represent 4 states
Only in Chicago•1959 Buckingham Lake Front: “Queen’s landing”
Only in Chicago• 1968 Democratic National Convention: Vietnam protesters in Grant Park
Only in Chicago•Blackstone Hotel: 9th floor, “smoke-filled room”
Only in Chicago•Spertus Jewish Museum
Only in Chicago•Louis Sullivan’s building: now Roosevelt University
Only in Chicago• Burnham designed the large Orchestra Hall to save the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Only in Chicago• The Art Institute used to be the Chicago Convention Center.
Only in Chicago•The 2 Lions of the Art Institute
Only in Chicago•The Bob Newhart Show: North Lake shore, Sheridan
Only in Chicago•Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar movie: Charlton Heston
Only in Chicago•Charlton Heston:
Only in Chicago• “Roman Empire” movies
–Field Museum–Museum of Science & Industry
Only in ChicagoTransformer
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9gPKvA0ZFU •https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4YP7DzfLs4 •https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1DK0yuTAGI •https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFXgiLky1No •http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mAEb7S0mhg
Only in ChicagoSource Code•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkTrG-gpIzE
Only in Chicago•Lincoln Park Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Only in Chicago•Caldwell: prairie-style architecture (& sculpture)
Only in Chicago•Playboy Mansion
Only in Chicago•Drake Hotel: 1967-1990 Playboy headquarters
Only in Chicago•Same team constructed Hancock Tower & Willis Tower
Only in Chicago•1869: Water Tower, only one of few buildings to survive Chicago fire
Only in Chicago•Lake Tower: Green Roof
Only in Chicago• Navy Pier• 8.6 Million visitors per year• Stained Glass Museum• Shakespeare Theater• Giant Ferris Wheel 15 storey’s tall (1/2
of original)
Only in Chicago•Crown Fountain: 1,000 ordinary Chicagoans
Only in Chicago•Cloud Gate: “The Bean”
Only in Chicago•Serpentine Bridge
Only in Chicago• Recreation of the original classical monument: Millennial Monument
Only in ChicagoFair Use• In good faith, this work contains fair use of
copyrighted and non-copyrighted images from the web for non-commercial educational purposes.
• This work is distributed free of charge.• The author has neither monetized this work
nor sought any profit from its distribution.• This work contains original work of
commentary and critical analysis. • Quotations are attributed to the original
authors and sources.
Only in Chicago
Only in Chicago
Dr. Rey TyNorthern Illinois University