Weather in Chicago 11 April 2011
Now in Chicago
Temperature = 27.0°C
dew point = 18.0°C
relative humidity = 58%
feels like = 28.0°C
wind = SSW 33km/h
pressure = -
Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. states of Illinois, was founded on August 12, 1833. Famous for farming and industrial areas are scattered, a strategic port on the Great Lakes, its position as the most important railway network in the northern U.S., and an unflagging enthusiasm during the Great Fire of 1871. Also known by famous writers such as Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Carl Sandburg and Theodore Dreiser, and architecture produced its world-class masters such as Frank Lloyd Wright.
The size of Chicago's now-mil2 ± 762 (1973 km2)-evolved from trading post here by John Kinzie in 1796.
Building steel-reinforced skyscraper came from Chicago. Chicago Home Insurance Building was completed (1885) and 9 years later, 21 buildings are built with high ± 12-16 floors. Grown into a leading city of the 19th century because the location and position of importance as a center of transportation, appointed Chicago World Columbian Expo organized 1893, beating even the NYC and Washington DC.
During the 1920 ban, known for his Chicago bosses like Al Capone crime organization that control the business and sometimes political. Fighting the mafia is ready to face violence, and residents watched warily as atrocities increased, and culminated in various events such as Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929. At that time, the city is living life with music and color, hidden alcoholic beverages at stores where women danced and money flowed like water.
Chicago is the base part in the American theater groups, including Second City and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Mayor a lot of national attention as Richard J. Daley in Chicago politics who mastered decades to death, 1976, and his son in power in the next decade.
Today is a city in America to become the location of the convention, also has grown to become the center of the most important railway network in the Illinois Central, Burlington Northern and the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe. Both the latter combines operational (1995) became the largest railway system in the Western hemisphere. Chicago-as the heart of the national railway road-ne of its center. The city on the shores of the lake is famous in America because selurau houses, parks, and beaches. Residents of Chicago as much as 2.8 million people are still regarded as a society ter'liar 'and creative in the Americas.
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