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