Gary is not just the butthole of Indiana- it's the butthole of Illinois, the USA, and I'd argue the rest of the world as well. To imagine just how terrible Gary is, visualize the grand city of Chicago. It's nowhere near perfect, and is on the decline, but still has fantastic neighborhoods and is home to millions. Now, make the city 10-15 times smaller, remove every skyscraper and notable landmark from your imagined skyline, double the number of factories, and add a distinct, disgusting smell that needs one single word to describe it: Gary. Not only is that the name of your smell, it's the name of the armpit you just created.
The city reeks of failure and misery, as if 175,000 people gave up and died at the exact same time.
It makes sense that Gary failed so horrifically. It should have never existed- it is a product of Chicago's steel success, and was not meant to exist independently. Gary was a temporary home for the steel workers of Illinois, and when the industry dried up, so did the hopes and dreams of the city's inhabitants.
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Unfortunately for Elbert, he is also the inspiration for a town in West Virginia, forming the second half of the Tale of Two Gary's. Dickens was wrong, though. It was never the best of times, and it's been well below the worst of times for several decades. In a cruel posthumous gift for EG, his namesake would reach superstardom after its record-holding 90% unemployment rate in the early 80s. The rate fell not because its residents found work, but because they simply gave up
Chicago in the 1920s was a turning point for the development of ethnic neighborhoods. After the opening of the first rail connection from New York to Chicago in the 1840s, immigration sky rocketed from that point on. Majority of the immigrants to Chicago were Europeans. The Irish, Italians, eastern European Jews, Germans, and Mexicans were among the most common ethnicities to reside in Chicago. These groups made up the greater part of Chicago. The sudden increase in immigration to Chicago in the 1920s soon led to an even further distinguished separation of ethnicities in neighborhoods. The overall development of these neighborhoods deeply impacted how Chicago is sectioned off nowadays. Without these ethnicities immigrating to Chicago almost 100 years ago, Chicago neighborhoods would not be as culturally defined and shaped as they are today.
In the book, “The Devil in the White City,” Erik Larson tells the story of two formidable men and their activities during Chicago’s World Fair of 1893. Daniel Burnham is an architect and the fair’s brilliant director. The book takes the reader through the tremendous obstacles and tragedies that Burnham faces in an attempt to create a fair that will give America its fame. However, H.H Holmes is a young doctor, who uses the attraction of the great fair and his charms to lure dozens of young women to their inevitable and tragic deaths. Not only did Chicago’s World Fair of 1893 showcase Daniel Burnham’s success as an able director and H.H. Holmes cunning nature, it changed America as a whole, introduced some lasting inventions, and influenced many historical figures of both that time and our current time period.
When people think of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, they think of crime and violence within the neighborhood. I myself have thought this about Bedford Stuyvesant before I did research and actually visited the neighborhood for myself. Bedford Stuyvesant in my opinion, has two different sides. The side the media portrays to us, the people, and the side people who actually visit/live in the neighborhood see for themselves. My visual representation above shows the two different sides of Bedford Stuyvesant. The first image shows the typical view of what people think of when they think of Bedford Stuyvesant, the projects. When people think of this neighborhood, they think of project buildings housing low income black families. The media portrays Bedford Stuyvesant as a
This case was very shocking and scary amongst the state of Washington, due to the fact that this case was the largest serial murder investigation since the early 1980’s in the Green River Killings committed by Gary Ridgeway. This case was very similar not only in the fact that both crimes were in the same state but their targets were prostitutes. He strangled the women unlike Yates who shot his victims. After strangling his victims he as well would dump the bodies. Ridgeway earned his name as the Green River Killer because when authorities found the first 5 victims located in the Green River. He is known to have murdered a minimum of 71 women, and was found convicted through DNA evidence, the same as Yates. Unlike Yates who is currently on death row and was sentenced to death, Ridgeway did not receive the death penalty due to confessing about missing women who authorities had not
is a city where no matter how much money you have, there’s so much to complain about,
Historically, Chicago has been and always will be a city of change both industrially and agriculturally to the metropolis we know and revere today with skyscrapers and culture abound. In order for the city to become the industrial hub, changes were made to the natural landscapes to accommodate business and residency. Steel became the staple good, and green spaces were demolished during the expansion of industry in the Calumet region by the masses in the creation of steel for railroad tracks and structural steel for commercial buildings. For geographical ambiance, The Calumet region of Chicago is consisted of the following neighborhoods: Burnside, Calumet Heights, East Side, Hegewisch, and Pullman, South Chicago, and South Deering. In this essay, I focus primarily on Pullman. It was unknown, or unsought of rather, how these implications would lead to issues of both economic and environmental injustice.
Gary Leon Ridgway was born February 18, 1949. He had a troubled home life his mother was described as domineering. As a young child he witnessed more than one violent argument between his parents. He did very poorly in school and the other kids would describe him as quiet and easily forgettable. He wet the bed until he was 14, when his mother would witness it she would make him march naked all the way into the bathroom. Then she would bathe him which made him very uncomfortable and made him start having both sexual and violent fantasies with his mother. He committed his first crime his first crime when he was 16, which he had stabbed a boy and the boy survived. According to the victim and him himself he walked away laughing and said “I always
The visual descriptions Larson writes are very vivid and easy to see in one’s mind. The words he uses are varied and interesting and are very effective at conveying his messages. Larson doesn’t just describe things in terms of sight, sound, and smell, but also conveys the emotional feelings behind them. In this quote he explains very eloquently the quantity and brightness of the lights, but also explains the wonder and excitement that the patrons of the fair felt upon seeing them. This gives the reader an idea of what the fair really meant to Chicago and its citizens. Larson also uses very descriptive facts and words to support his thoughts. In this quote, he says that the fair consumed three times as much electricity as Chicago. Facts like
Hoovervilles weren't as unorganized as one might think; they were often raised by departments. The bigger the city the bigger the Hooverville, mostly because Hoovervilles were sustained off of help from others and big cities that had most resources the shantytowns needed such as Soup and bread lines, and money sufficient donors. Some were also surrounded near rivers or banks for the ample amount of infinite water. Even some hoovervilles had their own form of government, such as the one that resided in Chicago Illinois which had its own mayor Mike Donovan, and in an interview he stated, “Building construction may be at a standstill elsewhere, but down here everything is booming. Ours is a sort of communistic government. We pool our interests and when the commissary shows signs of depletion, we appoint a committee to see what leavings the hotels have.” A reader can identify the sense of community they share and helping each other out during the trying times. Seattle Washington's Hooverville one of the biggest, longest standing, and best documented accommodated over 1,200 homeless people. This town started with an unemployed lumberjack with over nine acres of land to spare, people quickly flooded in. Another large Shantytown was in Missouri near the Banks of the Mississippi River for the abundant supply of water. This Hooverville was placed into four racial sectors and housed about 500 men, in which they
Back in the early 1900s, Phenix City was known as “Sin City”. During this time period and true to its name, this town contained a lot of sin through mob/mafia, major issues with the Prohibition Act, and even the mysterious murder of the Attorney General, Albert Love Patterson. So much more gave this town that said name. The events of that time period were so extreme that it urged General George S. Patton to command his army to use tanks to flatten/demolish this town. Thankfully, such command wasn’t followed through. Today, after the “clean up” and numerous name changes, we have a beautiful town called Phenix City. Though we have major darkness in our past, our past has made us who we are today.
Growing up on the south side of Chicago in the roughest neighborhood in the city I learned a lot from others and just observing my surroundings. At times, I would always think to myself my situation could always be worse than it was, and that there is always someone who is doing worst off than me. But my situation turned from being in a bad position to being in a position where my mother would come to lose her mother and our home that we had been living in, all in the same year. After losing her mother and bother my mom lost herself in her emotions and shut down on everyone and with that came the loss of a home for me and my siblings and her job. Shortly after my mom began to go back to church and so did we. It was the first time in a log time that we had attended church and it played a big part in a learning experience for me and my siblings. Through the days that came to pass going to church sparked a desire of wanting to help others who had or are struggling to get by. My mentor, Pastor, and teacher deserves appreciation for helping my mother through a hard time and keeping me and my siblings active in a positive manor.
But my brother though he came up in the Warner Homes, a corrupt project that he claims was so crazy that they had to knock it down because the crime rate was worst then Chicago. But I never seen the shit because by the time I got here these niggas was “Harrison Homes” crazy ‘Dub H’ Hard Head’s, Bomb Squad all that. I think he wanted something different because when Chicago finally took Peoria off the ‘GD’ count for the board members coming up missing. Niggas started making up they own cliques and squads, but Drip went to the hill he said it was more money up there.
“The first environmentally sustainable 21st century city” was how Michael Bloomberg visualized New York City in the future and he made it. In relation to the proposal Bloomberg made in the 2007, he has a proactive personality in bringing constructive changes toward the New York City by taking initiatives (Rahman, Batool, Akhtar, & Ali, 2015). When the world is most concern about the environment issues, Bloomberg made his first step to transform New York City into a green city. He proposed 127 projects, regulations and innovations to cope the growth of population and the environment (Lueck, 2007). He sees these are the opportunities that he could create positive changes in New York City. In addition, Bloomberg also raise improvement issues on
This is a critique of" Roger And Me", a documentary by Michael Moore. This is a film about a city that at one time had a great economy. The working class people lived the American dream. The majority of people in this town worked at the large GM factory. The factory is what gave these people security in their middle working class home life. Life in the city of Flint was good until Roger Smith the CEO of GM decided to close the factory. This destroyed the city. Violent crime became the highest in the nation, businesses went bankrupt, people were evicted from their rented homes. There were no jobs and no opportunity. Life was so bad that Money magazine named Flint the worst place to live in the entire nation. When news of the factory closing first broke, Michael Moore a native of flint decided to search for Roger Smith and bring him to Flint.
The setting as well as the dialogues and actions taken by the characters create a conflicting atmosphere: it is said to be beautiful from up there among the mountains. Ironically, at the same time an ugly incident takes place: the killing of a wood grouse. Similarly negatively, Gary exposes crying and sadness, which support that the atmosphere is inconsistent and blurry. In addition, Gary keeps his experiences in war hidden from Bud even though Bud seems interested: ‘’That day