An epidemic of water born diseases in Chicago was rampant in the early 1880s. In order to stop the spread the diseases, Chicago exercised their right to reverse the flow of the once stagnant river, thus saving the lives of Chicago residents. In the early 1880s, Chicago was a bustling city on its way to becoming one of great cities in the world. There was a problem though. Horrible sanitation problems plagued the city. The Chicago River was virtually an open sewer covered with visible filth
rather than hear the history of Chicago. What they are missing is the important fact of how they are where they are and the reason they are waiting at the boat lock. A reason that is crucial to not only Chicago’s history, but the history of many major civil engineering projects of the future. The Chicago River today is home to a vast network of trade, tourism, and other commercial enterprises, linked in one direction to the Mississippi River through the Des Plaines River and linked in the other direction
about the passage "The Jungle" was the huge iron wheel with pigs on it. This scene sticks out in my mind because I can almost see the pigs squealing as they are ripped away by their feet up higher and higher into the air. I can also see the massive "river" of hogs awaiting their turn to be chained up by the burly Negro. Another scene that is easy to describe is the scene where the "knockers" struck the cows on the head with a sledge hammer. In this scene all I can imagine is worn out man who has swung
soothes your soul like Mama’s chicken noodle soup. In 1837, she became a city; Chicago is her name, the third largest city in the United States. Chicago rests on 237 square miles of land along the border of Lake Michigan. If you are searching for adventure, cultural events, and festivals Chicago is the place to be. Nicknamed the Windy City, the city with big Shoulders the late singer Frank Sinatra best describes Chicago in one of his songs, as his kind of town. Chicago’s summers are magnificent on
Saltonstall Hubbard came to Chicago by a bateau with other voyageurs. He came with Antoine Deschamps, a French Canadian who was captivated by the heroic age of the French exploration in North America, he was also the “boss” or Le Bourgeois of the Illinois outfit. Deschamps took Hubbard, his apprentice clerk who shares his passion for the history of discovery, to Marquette’s grave. They made the trip around Lake Michigan to the Chicago River in twenty days. Hubbard died in Chicago in 1886, the year Louis
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Has A Live Butterfly House With Over 200 Species The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, also known as the Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, opened in 1857 and is one of the oldest natural history museums in the United States. It has had several locations, but is now permanently situated in a modern building in Lincoln Park as part of the city’s museums-in-the-parks program. There are many different exhibits, aimed mainly at helping children learn about nature
Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, etc. He has won many awards for his works and once he moved to Chicago, he started Research for his bestselling book, There are No Children Here. I believe that since Kotlowitz writes/ has written for so many national magazines and three other books he is well qualified. There are No Children Here, is a book about two brothers who live in Henry Horner Homes. The two brothers names are Lafeyette Rivers and Pharoah Rivers. They both live in the inner city of Chicago and try
500BCE – 400BCE, Paris from 1850-1900 and Chicago from 1900-1930 have been chosen and a time period allocated to each geographical area which will give clarity to the argument and supporting evidence as there are a number of important technologies to be considered which impacted on the social, political and economic environments. In Athens I will pay particular attention to the study of houses within the polis, in Paris attention to tenement housing and in Chicago I will be looking at pre-fabricated houses
Chinatown neighborhood of Chicago is one of the historic neighborhoods. According to Harry Kiang’s Chicago’s Chinatown, “In 1890, 25 percent of the city's 600 Chinese lived along Clark between Van Buren and Harrison Streets, in an area called the Loop’s Chinatown. After 1910 Chinese from the Loop moved to a new area near Cermak Road and Wentworth Avenue, mainly for cheaper rent” (Encyclopedia of Chicago). The Chicago has two Chinatowns at the Southern part of the Chicago. Thus we can know that the
Daniel burnham was a man with many great ideas, he had many plans for chicago, he originally wanted nine pier for the lake shore, but “in 1909, Daniel burnham, the most famous Chicago city planner, wanted Chicago to have several piers for shipping and entertainment. Only one was built however, and that one was placed at the mouth of the Chicago River. Construction began in 1914 of the formerly named Municipal Pier, and after $4.5 million in building costs, the pier opened to the public in 1916.”
Sandburg wrote his poem ‘Chicago’ in 1914. The city of Chicago itself was first established in 1833, meaning it was only about 70 years old. In 1971, a fire destroyed the entire Central Business District. The years following were a slow and grueling recovery, but eventually Chicago became a “Dominant Midwestern center for manufacturing, commerce, finance, higher education, religion, broadcasting, sports and jazz….”( Source 1). In ‘ Chicago’, Sandburg describes Chicago as a young man. His reference
Abstract: This essay is focused on how the Chicago fire and the ideas of Louis Sullivan were critical in the development of a new form of architecture in the United States and the societal and social influences that brought it all together. Predating the frequently cited Frank Lloyd Wright and Daniel Burnham, a commonly overlooked name would be that of Louis Sullivan, who is responsible for pioneering an American form of architecture that broke free from
their surest way of travel, rivers and lakes. By the middle of the eighteenth century, settled populations were beginning to take hold at Detroit and Green Bay and in what was called the Illinois country (<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov">http://lcweb2.loc.gov</a>). The great currency of the French empire in North America was, however, the fur trade. Canoes were used to float the furs down a series of waterways from the area around the Great Lakes, up the Ottawa River to Montreal (<a href="http://lcweb2
that is the city of Chicago, and crosses the minds of few regularly. Stretching roughly a mile in distance, Maxwell Street was once the epicenter of commerce, the birth of culture, and change. From its birth out of the Great Chicago Fire, to the first Jewish immigrants, to it’s final day as a bazaar, it is this rise and decline of Maxwell Street that has aided in cultural differentiation that ultimately gives insight into the urban spacing and transitions in the city of Chicago. Once a wasteland southwest
Background As of today, the city of Chicago is the third largest city in the United States, right behind New York and Los Angles. It is home to more 3 million people, but this was not always the case. When the city was created in 1833, it only "coveted less than half a square mile on either side of the main channel of the Chicago River and contained only 350 adventurous inhabitants, mostly male." (Abu-Lughod 49). As the years went on the city continued to grow and by 1870 its "economic base had
with a better life. Just like everything else in life, South Bend continues to change by the minute. It is full of improvements and developments to grow into a larger and better known city. As beautiful as South Bend is to me, South Bend is like Chicago in the eyes of a foreigner. The Westside of South Bend is most important to me. Growing up in the Westside, I saw snail-paced changes. Roads and sidewalks were finally being fixed and business was also increasing. More out of town visitors would
father, Edward James Coles Sr. and his mother, Perlina Adams Coles, decided it would be best that the family move to Chicago. By the time Nat reached four years of age, his father quit his job as a grocer and moved his family to Chicago, where he became a preacher. This decision would have had a huge impact on the family as a whole, but especially in the case of Nat. Moving to Chicago was the first step in Nat’s rise to fame, the place where the foundation of a jazz superstar would be built. As a
What we know today as The City Beautiful Movement originated back in 1893 at the Worlds’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Which was originally a 400th year anniversary of the landing of one Christopher Columbus in America. The exposition was held from May 1, 1893 until October 30th, 1893. They layout of the exposition itself was designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted. Burnham was an American born architect and urban designer.Olmsted was a landscape architect. Journalist, and public
In this paper I am going to write about Greek Americans. My paper will include detail about Greek Americans such as residence and housing, date and place of origin, economic activities, education, kinship, traditions and religion as well as their future in the United States. The Greeks came to America in different times and over a number of decades. There are five periods, which encompass the historical development of the Greek population in America. The first period cover the Years 1528 to 1821
Comparing Metaphors in Norman Maclean's, A River Runs Through It and Henry David Thoreau's, Walden In Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It, the author recounts the story of his early life growing up in Montana. The narrative revolves around his family and the art of fly fishing. Through the novel, Maclean begins to understand the wisdom of his father, the fierce independence and downfall of his brother, and the divinity and beauty of nature. A similar theme regarding divinity in nature is