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Our Kind of Town
Our Kind Of Town!
Tired of checking out the world of trade? Well, follow the links below to find out more about our hometown, Chicago. The windy city is our kind of town! First check the weather at Meigs Field, our lakefront airport built on a landfill island created for the 1933 World's Fair. While famous for being the home airport of the Microsoft Flight Simulator, it was closed on September 30th. The State, who wishes to keep the airport open, and the City have now reached an agreement and the airport will be reopening shortly. This agreement also does provide, however, that the airport will ultimately close in five years and the Island turned into badly needed lakefront park land.. See the Friends of Meigs Field page for a full explanation. Also see a selection of live pictures of the city from various locations, courtesy of local TV station WGN.
A Sense of Place.
A city of 3 million souls (8 million in the metropolitan area) on the prairie, hard by Lake Michigan, Chicago is middle America. It has been favored in song and poem. See Carl Sandburg's classic poem about the City of the Big Shoulders, provided thanks to a gopher site which has the complete Chicago Poems of Sandburg. For copyright reasons the lyrics to the Frank Sinatra classic are not available on the Internet, but if you are interested in Sinatra
generally, see Frank's Web.
While you can still see the location of the real Elliott Ness's office at the Customs House on South Canal street, the crimes of the prohibition age are but a distant memory for this vital city. (In fact, Mayor Daley (the Elder) took pride in his successes in erasing all traces of such crimes from the city landscape) See the current city at City of Chicago Homepage, which includes the city flag and a picture of Mayor Daley (the younger). See also the personal view of a local photographer of his neighborhood near Diversey on the Lake.
But Chicago is a vital melange of the old and the new. Check out the Picasso Sculpture, a modern symbol of the city now nearly 30 years old. Or see the Chicago Cultural Center, at one time the main public library. And Chicago is full of historic buildings, skyscrapers and otherwise. See the Chicago Architecture Foundation site for information about this subject.
A Sense of History and Culture.
For history, see the Chronological Timeline at the Chicago
Public Library. The excellent Chicago Historical Society site has
a brief history as well as links to other local cultural and fun institutions such as the Art Institute, the Brookfield Zoo, the
Adler Planetarium and others. It also links to various sites regarding Abraham Lincoln. On October 8th, the 125th Anniversary of the great fire, a special collaborative exhibit by the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University called The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory was put online.
Da Sports.
Chicago has some well-known teams, both successful and not-so-
successful. See the official world champion Bulls, the Mice of the Midway, also known as the Bears, and perennial lovable losers (and, we always hope, next year's NL Central runaway winner) Cubs sites for example. But the White Sox exploding scoreboard, with current score if a game is in progress, is definitely our favorite. For Chicago Baseball fans, the long drought of no World Series appearances continued again in 1996, 1997 brings a new and powerful combination to the south side of Frank "Big Hurt" Thomas, Robin "Boy Wonder" Ventura, and Albert "Ringing" Belle. This Assassin's Alley will make the summer of 1997 interesting.
Food.
Chicagoland has many fine restaurants. See the SearchCom Zagat Guide for Chicago for an extensive alphabetized listing with reviews (big page, takes a while to load), or the Chicago Web Restaurant Guide for a simpler list according to cuisine. For menus, see the Menus Online page for Chicago. But for real Chicago food check out Gino's Pizza for the classic Chicago-style deep dish which they claim can be ordered and then delivered to anywhere in the world from this site. Also see the Garrett Popcorn (Home of CaramelCrisp® and CheeseCornTM) site for the product said to be the favorite of movie reviewers Siskel and Ebert.
Getting Here and Getting Around.
Thinking of visiting? What are you waiting for? See the Chicago Airport System
for help in navigating Midway and O'Hare airports. For getting around on the
"El" you can use the Subway Viewer and the Subway and El Transit Map. If
you are driving in you may want to know more about Illinois, which you can see
at the official State of Illinois site.
News.
Our local newspapers can provide a lot of information. See the Tribune
and the Sun Times. For a quirkier view of the city, check out
the Reader, the free weekly with a good listing of local events. It is reminiscent of the counterculture newspapers of the 60s, with personals and a good listing of available rental apartments.
Music.
From Jazz to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra you can find it in Chicago.
For example, check out Blues in Chicago, or for a comprehensive search for most everything available see the Chicago Concert Search site.
More.
Still not satisfied? Explore more Chicago links via Chicago's Homepage, the
Chicago Information System or the Chicago Web Page.
While we try to keep the listed links up to date, due to the constantly changing nature of the WWW it is possible that some have been superceded. Please let us know if any links have expired, or if you know of an interesting site that could be added. Comments and suggestions for improvements are always welcome.
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