Chicago, Illinois
Chicago is located in the northeastern part of Illinois.
Chicago is the largest city in Illinois with a population of 2,695,598 residents (2010).
About Chicago
Located on the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago is home to world-championship sports teams, an internationally acclaimed symphony orchestra, 200 theaters, 200 art galleries, more than 7,300 restaurants, 552 parks and more.
To See And To Do In Chicago
Magnificent Mile - Shopping Street
Chicago History Museum
Theater
Lincoln Park
Hyde Park
Field Museum of Natural History
Downtown
John G. Shedd Aquarium
The Prairie Avenue Historic District
Bridgehouse And Chicago River Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art
Loyola University Museum of Art
Old Town
Heritage Gallery
Field Museum of Natural History
History Of Chicago
The first Europeans came to the Chicago area in the 17th century. In 1696, Father François Pinet, a French Jesuit priest, established the Mission of the Guardian Angel at Chicago. The mission was abandoned in 1700. In the late 1770s, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, a free black man, built a house and trading post on the Chicago River on the spot of today's Pioneer Court. He is regarded as the first permanent resident of Chicago and is given the appellation "Founder of Chicago". He was born to a Haitian slave and a French pirate and he was married to a woman from the Potawatomi tribe. He left Chicago in 1800.
Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837. In the 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, and later, Swedes, Irish, Germans, English and Dutch came to the city to build houses, to work with farming, the railroads, stockyards and other heavy industry. In 1844, the city's first public school is built near Madison and State streets. In 1850, the construction of railroads made Chicago a major hub. Over 30 lines entered the city. 1850 is also the year when the gas lamps are erected on Lake Street and several adjacent blocks. Most of the buildings in Chicago were made of wood and they burned to the ground in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The fire leaves 300 Chicagoans dead and 90,000 homeless. In 1885, the world's first skyscraper, The Home Insurance Building, is erected on LaSalle Street. The first Ferris wheel made its debut in Chicago in 1893.
In 1903, more than 600 people died in a fire at the Iroquois Theater. On 24 July 1915 a ship was taking on passengers when it rolled over in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew were killed. In 1931, Al Capone is found guilty of evading $231,000 in income taxes and sentenced by a Chicago federal court to 11 years in prison. John Dillinger is shot by the FBI in 1934 on Lincoln Avenue. On December 2, 1942, the world's first controlled nuclear reaction was conducted at the University of Chicago as part of the top secret Manhattan Project.
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