Located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan,
Chicago is the largest city in
Illinois, and 3rd largest in the United States over all.
As of the 2000 census, the city iself had a population of 2,896,016.
Additionally,
when combined with its suburbs and the nine surrounding counties in
Illinois,
Indiana and
Wisconsin, the metropolitan area
(known as "Chicagoland") has a population of almost 10 million.
The city has a highly diversified economy, including financial services,
manufacturing, printing and publishing. Chicago is home to the nation's
2nd largest business district (after New York City),
and the 3rd largest media market
(after
Los Angeles and
New York City),
and four major financial and futures exchanges.
Chicago is a popular tourist destination, attracting well over 30 million
visitors each year. Some of the attractions in Chicago include:
Some of the leading companies that have based their headquarters in Chicago include Boeing, Exelon and Sara Lee.
Major airports for Chicago include Chicago Midway International Airport and O'Hare International Airport.
Perhaps the best known educational institution in Chicago is the University of Chicago. The University of Chicago is a private university that was originally founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1890, and held its first classes in 1892.
Sports teams in Chicago include the baseball team, the Chicago Cubs, the baseball team, the Chicago White Sox, the basketball team, the Chicago Bulls, the ice hockey team, the Chicago Blackhawks, and the NFL American football team, the Chicago Bears.
Chicago is home to a unique style of pizza, known simply as Chicago-style pizza. Chicago-style pizza is very a deep dish pizza, more like a casserole or lasagna than traditional thin crust pizza, and which was probably invented at Pizzeria Uno in Chicago in 1943. Additionally, there also another style of pizza that is unique to the city, sometimes known as "flat pizza" which has a crunchy texture and is usually cut into squares (known as "party cut").
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Product Description: Streetwise Chicago Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Chicago, Illinois - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated CTA & Metra map including lines & stations
This map covers the following areas: Main Chicago Street Map 1:27,000 Downtown Chicago Map 1:18,000 Hyde Park - Kenwood Map 1:40,000 Wicker Park & Bucktown Map 1:27,000 Chicago Area Map 1:330,000 Chicago CTA & Metra Map
Crack! A roaring cheer muffles the ecstatic cry of the announcer’s amplified voice. The entire city block erupts in joy as a ball drops into the asphalt of West Waveland Avenue. Welcome to Wrigley field, one of the oldest ballparks in the country. Now you’re in Chicago, home to some of America’s biggest baseball fans, its tallest building and its deepest deep-dish pizza.
Chicago is the most active city, as well as the center of the Midwest. Hop on Lake Shore Drive and watch as this glistening waterside metropolis unfolds before your eyes. From the Art Institute at Grant Park to the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Science (home to Sue, the city’s beloved Tyrannosaurus Rex) to the architectural oasis of the Illinois Institute of Technology campus and Oak Park, Chicago is a world known cultural capital.
All these sites are clearly marked and indexed on the STREETWISE® Chicago city map. Also included are an enlarged detailed map of the downtown, an area map that includes the major routes and surrounding towns of Chicago and a map of the Metra system.
Our pocket size map of Chicago is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® Chicago map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® Chicago map today and you too can navigate Chicago, Illinios like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the search bar.
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Completely updated every year, Frommer's Chicago features 16 pages of gorgeous color photos of the sights and experiences that await you.
Chicago, fast becoming one of the nation’s greenest cities, is home to a number of eco-friendly hotels and restaurants, which are highlighted in this latest edition.
Our Chicago expert takes art, architecture, and museum lovers behind the scenes, giving you tips on which exhibits are worth your time, how to see the sights on a budget, and a detailed guide to the city’s architectural wonders.
You'll also get up-to-the-minute coverage of shopping and nightlife; a detailed walking tour of the Loop’s best sculptures; accurate neighborhood maps; and advice on planning a successful family vacation (including the Obama family’s favorite hangouts).
Frommer's Chicago also includes a color photo insert and fold-out map.
Product Description: Wikitravel Chicago is the most comprehensive guide ever published to Chicago, with museums, sports, and skyscrapers from top to bottom, up-to-date info on jazz, blues, and Chicago nightlife, in-depth coverage of amazing restaurants across the city and 27 handy city maps with attractions marked. Built using the award-winning Wikitravel website, all Wikitravel guides are written by fellow travelers and updated by our editors from top to bottom every single month, so you're always guaranteed to get the newest information.
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Product Description: Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.
Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. While you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Chicago!
•Updated annually, Fodor’s Chicago 2010 provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guide book.
•Fodor’s Chicago 2010 features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.
•If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in Chicago.
•Experience Chicago like a local! Fodor’s Chicago 2010 features information from local experts.
•Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include “Top Reasons to Go,” “Word of Mouth” advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls.
•Illustrated Features on everything from cutting-edge architecture, legendary blues, and world-class museums to major-league baseball Deep-dish pizza, and maverick chefs. Chicago's got it all---now all you need to do is book a flight!
Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.
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Moon Metro Chicago is the definitive guide to the hottest sights, shops, restaurants, amusements, and hotels that the Windy City has to offer. With vivid color photos and discreet fold-out maps detailing all the must-see neighborhoods, this sleek guide highlights Chicago’s top sights as well as the spots only the locals know about. Clean, concise, and compact, Moon Metro Chicago shows visitors where to dine in River North, shop along the Magnificent Mile, grab a post-game drink near Wrigley Field, and catch the latest band in Wicker Park. Moon Metro guidebooks take urban travel to a new level with an innovative fusion of style, function, and hip insider advice. For more information visit Moon.com.
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Product Description: Streetwise Downtown Chicago Map - Laminated Street Map of Downtown Chicago, Illinois - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated CTA lines & stations
This map covers the following area: Main Downtown Chicago Map 1:12,000
If your visit to Downtown Chicago is brief, or your focus is to explore the Chicago Loop and Near North side, than this is the perfect map for you. Explore one of America’s most remarkable central business districts with all the information you need to navigate like a native with the STREETWISE® Downtown Chicago Map.
Our STREETWISE® Downtown Chicago Map features many of the important sites you’ll want to see such as the Art Institute, Millennium Park, Buckingham Fountain, Grant Park, Sears Tower, Chicago Architectural Foundation and the incredible shopping on North Michigan Avenue, known as the Golden Mile (for good reason, rev up those credit cards). Look skyward and you’ll see a skyline that features some of the most distinctive architecture in the States: from American Gothic to Mid-century Modern to the newest Condo spires that sprout like spring grass in this vibrant city center. Lower your gaze and you’ll see a surge of commingled tourists, residents and business trippers all streaming down the streets with an unparalleled energy. Chicago is hot right now and you should be there!
And what would the Chicago Loop be without the famous overhead CTA Loop lines color coded on the STREETWISE® Downtown Chicago Map to further assist your sweep around the windy city. The STREETWISE® Downtown Chicago Map offers as complete a picture of Downtown Chicago,Illinois as you’ll ever need.
Our pocket size map of Downtown Chicago is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® Downtown Chicago map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® Downtown Chicago map today and you too can navigate this area like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.
Product Description: Artwise Chicago Museum Map - Laminated Museum Map of Chicago, Illinois - Streetwise Maps
This map covers the following areas: Main Chicago Map 1:27,000 Oak Park Architecture Map 1:19,000 Downtown Chicago Architecture Map 1:16,000 Chicago Museum Index
Whether you are in Chicago 4 hours or 4 days, the windy city offers visitors art and architectural treasures that are famous worldwide. Visit them all, and everything in between, guided by the ARTWISE® Chicago Museum Map.
Art museum excursions should begin with the Art Institute of Chicago, with works by Monet, Renoir, van Gogh and other heavy hitters that are on the must see list of Chicago visitors. Stroll north up Michigan Avenue and head to the Museum of Contemporary Art, one of the largest museums in the country featuring contemporary artists.
More than any other city in America, Chicago has experienced several epochs of explosive architectural development beginning after the great Chicago fire of 1871. Join one of the several organized architecture walking tours (refer to the Chicago Architectural Foundation in map index) tracing the birth of the modern skyscraper and its evolution into the international style. Another tour focuses around the Chicago River buildings, with styles ranging from Beaux Arts to Postmodern. Speaking of architecture and sculpture, one must visit and walk through Millennium Park, the spectacular new art park situated in the heart of Chicago’s Loop.
Unique to the ARTWISE® Chicago Museum Map are the special inset maps. A map of suburban Oak Park, Illinois will guide you to all the important homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Oak Park has the largest collection of Wright homes in America. The inset of IIT provides a detailed map of this important campus with buildings designed by Mies van der Rohe and Rem Koolhaas. The Hyde Park inset will show you where to find one of Chicago’s biggest attractions, the Museum of Science and Industry, home to the only intact WWII German U boat in the United States.
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