Chicago, although it is the biggest city of Illinois, it is not its capital, but Springfield. Nevertheless, Chicago with its 3 millions of inhabitants over its Metropolitan area makes it much more famous. It is a city with a continental weather just located to the North west of U.S, but right in front of the overwhelming Michigan Lake.
Chicago is known as the Skyscraper city, since being a modern city, it has incorporated this sort of buildings, its first skyscraper wills tower is the highest and famous as well, but chicago has 1.100 skyscrapers.
Walking amidst those buildings make create a sensation of abyss since you may feel very tiny in front of these giant buildings Chicago encloses 77 districts. Chicago Downtown is formed by the loop, Near North and Zona South districts. Those districts compose the heart of the city. It’s also The Financial district where travellers will find entertainment, places of interest, walks on Swimming activities.
The North Zone of Chicago is formed by Lake view, Boystown, Lincoln Park and Old Town districs. It’s probably the most luxurious part of Chicago, but one of the best places to party since they are a big amount of pubs and discoteques.
The South side is probably opposite to the previous one since it holds the astonishing and important afro-slum of Chicago with the best blues, jazz and soul. But it also houses the chinesse town, the main ghettos of inmigrants and the famous University of Chicago.
This area is formed by the districts Hyde Park, Bronzeville, Bridgeport, Chinatown and Shore-Chatham-Sur. The west side is surely a little dangerous zone according to the place and time, but contrary to that, it’s the truly ethnic spectacle of all the American cities.
Besides those zones, there are places like Far North Side, in which the best beaches are located and other ethnic slums such as the Irish, Mexican and others.
Originally, the Chicago region was inhabited by the Potawatomi, the native indians of this region who named it “Chicaugou” that means: “the powerful city”.
Chicago and the state of Illinois were themselves famous because it was one of the places where slaves enjoyed more freedom since it was colonized by Mormons whe were against slavery.
Chicago is also known for being one of the cities where Al Capone ran out his business, He was known as Scarface two. AltoughAlCapone was born in New York and died in Florida. In Chicago, He developed and carried out his bussiness and mob, mostly based on liquour contraband during the Drylaw.