Its tower is one hundred feet high at the top of skyscrapers in Chicago

Because the trip is focused on the road, so the leftChicagoTime just 1 days, included in LonelyPlanet are not 1 days itinerary, but under had to select some key, activities of the radius of basic control in the vicinity of Loop, in addition to the Chicago bulls home beyond the scope, but also catch up with it, even the souvenir also could not collect a.

Chicago overlooking the

A major feature of Chicago is through many-storied buildings between subway lines, many high buildings quantity thus Chicago, is said to be second only toHongkongAndNew YorkIn the city, and the world famous skyscrapers here also has a few place.

Millennium Park

In eighteenth Century, the Chicago area is a primary Tahoua Tommy (Potawatomi) Indian tribal territory, they gave this piece of Chicago estuary land named Chicago (Checaugou) -- meaning wild onion. In the history of the first hundred years, Chicago was one of the world's fastest growing city, starting from blank in early nineteenth Century growth to more than one million in 1900. It is the only one that didn't exist in a century ago the city at that time in the world with more than one million people in the city.

The silver of soybean is absolute landmarks of Chicago

In 1848, the communication of Michigan lake and the Mississippi River canal built, communication between the two major shipping waterway. The same year, the first railroad of Chicago began to build. Since then, Chicago has become a connectionThe United States of AmericaAn important transportation hub in the East and the west. Convenient land and water transport has greatly stimulated the development of industry and commerce. The prosperity of the city has attracted many foreign settlers, including a large number of rural population and new immigrants. From 1870 to 1900, Chicago's population soared from 299000 to 1700000. Local manufacturing and retail dominating the economy, and the influence of the American economy to a large extent.

Far can see the city railway link

Hundreds of thousands of workers went on strike in Chicago in May 1, 1886, for the eight hour working day, achieved a great victory. The five one international labor day is the origin of this.

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