Chicago

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CHICAGO
A PICTURE BOOK TO REMEMBER HER BV
64 Pages of Color Photography
Home of the skyscraper, the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Wrigleys chewing gum, Pullman cars and McDonald s hamburgers, Chicago also boasts the tallest building and the busiest airport in the world. Another famous name associated with Americas second city is that of Al Capone, but his violent era is long past and Chicago is no more the erime-ridden city it once was, when people feared to walk its streets. Instead it is a thriving business centre, important for banking and finance, manufacturing and retailing.
The name Chicago derives from an old Algonquin word—Checagou—which can mean, variously, 'wild garlic 'skunk' or 'skunk run'; none of which can be applied, in the 20th century, to the Chicago that has grown from an isolated army post to a vast, sprawling urban area with lofty skyscrapers, industrial plants and a network, of vital roads and railways. However, moderating this conurbation are beautiful parks,... Tovább

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CHICAGO
A PICTURE BOOK TO REMEMBER HER BV
64 Pages of Color Photography
Home of the skyscraper, the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Wrigleys chewing gum, Pullman cars and McDonald s hamburgers, Chicago also boasts the tallest building and the busiest airport in the world. Another famous name associated with Americas second city is that of Al Capone, but his violent era is long past and Chicago is no more the erime-ridden city it once was, when people feared to walk its streets. Instead it is a thriving business centre, important for banking and finance, manufacturing and retailing.
The name Chicago derives from an old Algonquin word—Checagou—which can mean, variously, 'wild garlic 'skunk' or 'skunk run'; none of which can be applied, in the 20th century, to the Chicago that has grown from an isolated army post to a vast, sprawling urban area with lofty skyscrapers, industrial plants and a network, of vital roads and railways. However, moderating this conurbation are beautiful parks, outstanding museums and gracious, stately buildings. There is. in addition, a magnificent skyline that looks out across the broad, blue waters of Lake Michigan, a lake that provides tranquillity, recreation and a doorway to this teeming city.
In the 1890's a New York journalist, when writing about Chicago, popularized the phrase "Windy City'; referring not to the gusts that blow off Lake Michigan but to the boasts that blew out of the town. Those boasts, however, are still pertinent today in this prosperous Illinois city, and the splendid colour photographs that fill the pages of this exciting book cleariy show the reason why. Vissza