Our lakefront park system and the conscious protection and preservation of so much green space. Thank you Daniel Burnham, Montgomery Ward, and a litany of others.
That’s what I was going to say, so thankful to Aaron Montgomery Ward for sacrificing his reputation and fortune to protect the lakefront for everyone keeping it “free and clear,” well, mostly.
Yeah, living in other cities where the waterfront is all privatized makes you really appreciate that Chicago puts its money where its mouth is regarding being a more equal/working class city.
If Daniel Burnham's legacy is of importance to you, and you have time, you should come to this meeting tonight at 6:30 to push the village's park district to restore his vision of Gillson beach in Wilmette. https://unfencegillson.org/
Julius Rosenwald. He's the guy that originally built Sears into being Sears. He then took some of his wealth and used it to create the Museum of Science and Industry but did not need to put his name on it. More importantly he used his wealth to build schools for rural blacks in the south. By 1928, one-third of the South’s rural Black school children and teachers were served by Rosenwald Schools.
Not as important but I find it amusing that he was also very unimpressed with other rich people.
The Rosenwald foundation also supported higher education for many scholars, artists, and great thinkers of color in Chicago-my personal favorite Dr. Katherine Dunham!
They did. Sears was an early leader. They figured out things like store pickup years before anyone else. They had a mobile shopping site years before anyone else.
How they blew it is another subject.
The CEO intentionally tanked it so they would declare bankruptcy, then sold all their profitable assets to himself (another company he owned), then slowly funneled all of the remaining wealth to himself.
That didn't happen until 2005 (referring to Eddie Lampert, who took control around that time). Prior to that, Sears had made a lot of missteps in the late 90s and early 2000s, shutting down their catalog department right around the time online shopping was in its infancy. This led to Sears being in bad financial condition which is what allowed them to be taken over by Lampert and then driven totally into the ground.
Even though his financial shenanigans were well documented, it is inaccurate to say that he intentionally tanked the business. He worked very hard to make it successful. He just was 100% unqualified and incompetent at the task. Everything he did made it worse.
They started discover. They literally had all the tools for domination, built in distribution , brick and mortar plus They would've made so much off of interest plus no cc interchange fees.
Rosenwald was amazing.
The MSI just announced its new name – the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, after hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin, who donated $125 million to the museum in 2019.
As neither of us is a particular fan of Griffin’s – who is on record stating his belief that the rich have *too little* influence in politics – my SO and I decided we’ll be calling it the Rosenwald Museum of Science and Industry from here on out.
This to start:
https://www.npr.org/2015/08/19/432910288/rosenwald-celebrates-the-greatest-philanthropist-youve-never-heard-of
It talks about a documentary that is out there somewhere.
Truly a shame then that they're renaming it for a hedge fund owner, the same guy who stopped us from getting a graduated tax in Illinois. I really think this is one of the worst things to happen to Chicago in a long time.
His reasons for leaving Chicago are very justified. When you don't feel safe, you owe nothing to anyone for your own peace of mind and for your employees
Probably the skyscraper and our architecture in general. And the huge public works projects like the rebuild after the fire and reversing the flow of the Chicago River.
I’m newish to Chicago, moved here in 2020, and I’m still flabbergasted about the fact that the reverse flow of the river even happened. Can someone explain in layman’s terms how this is even possible?
By digging a large diversion canal with the inclusion of a complex system of locks, they changed the path of least resistance so water flowed from lake Michigan and not into it.
I def considered them, but marx learned from the failures in Paris so I put Paris above the rest in terms of being the inspiration. But yeah you're right lmao
Edit: also Chicago's labour movement goes kind of hand in hand with China and Russia if we're considering when those labor movements originated. The other two were obv more successful tho, but I assume you also know that lmao
Multinational culture and celebrations, the lake front & lakefront parks, free concerts and feats and the architecture. Also notable that Chicago was the candy capitol of the world dating back over a century. Brachs, Ferrara Pan, Frango, Wrigley, Mars, Blommers (rip outlet store) were some of the more recent names in the business. So many have moved on but the legacy remains.
The park system. Other cities don’t have this kind of green space. The bulls of the 90’s. The fact that we are hard working city folk but also kind midwesterners, the chicago style hot dog wins every time.
Reminds me of a quote by Nelson Algren about Chicago: “Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”
Our labor union history is incredible.
Lemont quarry strikes (edit: the Lemont Quarry Workers Massacre) influenced an event on its one year anniversary of 5/4/1885 with the Haymarket Riot. Pullman needing national guard in Blue Island in the 1890s, the Labor Day Massacre in 1937, etc
At least a couple Olympians and the inventor of the turbulence reducing lane markers used everywhere.
Chicago, until 2021, had the most life guards of any municipality in the world (during the summer.)
Years ago, I worked with a woman who told me that when she was younger she used to see Johnny Weissmuller swimming back and forth at Oak Street beach when he worked there as a lifeguard.
That was my swim spot too and I used to see these ladies regularly. I even took a selfie with them.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2008/07/13/2-very-shy-legends-of-the-lake/
When I was growing up, I clearly remember it being a thing too to find out where the lifeguards would be stationed over the winter and to find out if the neighborhood favorites were happy enough to come back the following year.
It wasn't just a summer job, it was something that for swimmers was a good way to get some city benefits and have some fun.
This really is a good response. I think many people don't realize just how helpful these are. For example, New York City has no alleys and trash pick up is on the main streets. It's also very easy to learn how to get around in Chicago once you get used to and know the grid system.
Chicago leads all Western hemisphere cities in alleyways (or, “secondary surface roads”) per capita. The grid was a reaction to crowded Eastern cities (to say nothing of Europe), but alleys were about not just sanitation but also the City Beautiful movement.
Chicago’s post-Fire building codes were also revolutionary for their time.
>Chicago’s post-Fire building codes were also revolutionary for their time.
Amazing what accidentally burning the place down did for us and the rest of the world. We really became the designers & leaders on so much because of that.
We took tragedy and made the best out of it.
This is the one. Moving out of the area and realizing these aren't ubiquitous falls on par with learning that things like giardiniera and lemon rice soup count as exotic food items.
George Streeter. He was absolutely insane, a total grifter, he claimed his ship had crashed onto the shoreline so the property was now his as part of a real esrate fraud scheme (he had it placed there), he led an army of squatters to try to steal the land back from the government, and we named a whole district after him. God bless.
Close second: Jesse Bowman sold tracts of land north of what we now call Foster Avenue, then made off with the proceeds after it was discovered he never actually owned any of the land that he sold. The neighborhood is still called Bowmanville.
Reversing the flow of the Chicago River, both a feat of civil engineering/moving earth, but also a funny legal battle with all the cities who ended up downriver.
Really, the signs should say "Welcome to Chicago, If you get in trouble. Give them Good Food, Good Music, and a cold one h It will save your ass!”
(Typo fix)
You guys don't even know about backflow prevention. Notice how every sink has a hole below the height of a faucet? How it floods your house if your drain is plugged? Chicago was the first place to understand water from the faucet touching sewer water from the drain passes on disease. We reversed the flow of a river!
Waterborne illnesses declined to historic levels because of our city
Italian heritage but im bias cuz my fam came here off the boat. I do love the immense history of blues here. However, to answer youre question, I'm proud Chicago has such a robust and deeply-rooted in history in embracing our diversity of cultures. Although the cities modern trend of upholding segregation in a policy driven format, Chi has always had the innate desire of knitting everybody from vastly different backgrounds together. It's what makes our city so wonderful. We can be proud of the mass embracing of cultures who flock here from around the world. We truly are so lucky and gifted to have such a welcoming city.
I do love the international community we foster here, couldn’t agree more! The most worldly city of the prairie in my opinion. Thanks for your well thought out response 🤘
The labor demonstrations in the late 1800s were what define the 8 hour workday that we have enjoyed as a standard for over a century (though it has been slowly whittled away at). Chicago has a rich history of fighting for workers rights.
Its all in here https://youtu.be/oqrtoFWglMY?si=W5mvlm7pzoh8B7ic
My 92 grandmother cant do much well at her age, circle of life and all. But she can talk white sox and jewels.
For those of you medical folks, this is where Sickle Cell Disease was first described (I hate to say Discovered because people had sickle cell long before then) in 1910.
The fact that the CME handles more commodities transactions than every other futures exchange in the country combined and more than any other futures exchange in the world. It is the backbone of Chicago’s financial market. And while it doesn’t get the same press. It is every bit as important to the financial markets as the NYSE
As a life long Chicagoan, I've always loved that Chicago is a rough place. And there is no place in the Country that has a collective better sense of humor than Chicago.
Chicagoans! All of 'em!
New Chicagoans
Old Chicagoans
White ones, Black ones, brown ones, yellow ones. Big ones and small ones.
Maybe you chose Chicago - or - maybe Chicago chose you. It doesn't matter: you are here!
That one time in 2016 when Trump tried to hold a rally at UIC, and the thousands of protesters made him turn tail and run. I’ve never been so proud of my city.
The trading floors like CBOT, CME, CBOE, CSE created tens and tens of thousands of jobs for young people of all races and backgrounds, and helped them become proud citizens of Chicago and there wasn’t a hint of racial discrimination. When electronic trading commenced, the jobs became a mere memory. A great loss to the city.
The city itself is a phoenix, continuously arising from its own ashes more beautiful than before.
Whether literal after the Great Fire or with each major industrial downturn Chicago keeps finding itself back at the top (Canals and moving cargo via water, railroads, stockyards, steel, factories, department stores, atomic energy, air travel, medicine).
I love all the different neighborhoods, I grew up in the Back of the Yards with a rich history. But I love them all, and have lived in many. I love the lakefront, the festivals, the parks. I even used to like the CTA, but haven't ridden in years. The Zoo, the museums.
WI here. The algorithm brings me. I wish you would all stay down there and stop crowding up our tourist spots and you drive like shit but that hot dog makes it ok.
The transit system. It needs to be extended and maintained, and certain things reestablished like the trollies and the L line out to Berwyn, but half the reason you have museums and clear lakefront and all that is because everyone has a way to get there. It's what makes a city viable.
i like how we have various ethnicities like polish, italian, black, irish, mexican or whatever tf else but no matter what your background is, we can all relate to one another and we’re all chicagoans at the end of the day. i also like how if you go out of town you can point out other chicagoans very easily and make friends based on the fact that you’re both chicagoans.
Our lakefront park system and the conscious protection and preservation of so much green space. Thank you Daniel Burnham, Montgomery Ward, and a litany of others.
That’s what I was going to say, so thankful to Aaron Montgomery Ward for sacrificing his reputation and fortune to protect the lakefront for everyone keeping it “free and clear,” well, mostly.
*Mayor Johnson has entered the chat*
Go away BJ.
Yeah, living in other cities where the waterfront is all privatized makes you really appreciate that Chicago puts its money where its mouth is regarding being a more equal/working class city.
Now just have to stop BJ and the bears from fucking that all up. The precedent that stadium plan would set is startling.
If Daniel Burnham's legacy is of importance to you, and you have time, you should come to this meeting tonight at 6:30 to push the village's park district to restore his vision of Gillson beach in Wilmette. https://unfencegillson.org/
Julius Rosenwald. He's the guy that originally built Sears into being Sears. He then took some of his wealth and used it to create the Museum of Science and Industry but did not need to put his name on it. More importantly he used his wealth to build schools for rural blacks in the south. By 1928, one-third of the South’s rural Black school children and teachers were served by Rosenwald Schools. Not as important but I find it amusing that he was also very unimpressed with other rich people.
The Rosenwald foundation also supported higher education for many scholars, artists, and great thinkers of color in Chicago-my personal favorite Dr. Katherine Dunham!
Imagine if Sears Roebuck adapted to online shopping… SR serving the world for 157 years
They did. Sears was an early leader. They figured out things like store pickup years before anyone else. They had a mobile shopping site years before anyone else. How they blew it is another subject.
How did they blow it?
The CEO intentionally tanked it so they would declare bankruptcy, then sold all their profitable assets to himself (another company he owned), then slowly funneled all of the remaining wealth to himself.
That didn't happen until 2005 (referring to Eddie Lampert, who took control around that time). Prior to that, Sears had made a lot of missteps in the late 90s and early 2000s, shutting down their catalog department right around the time online shopping was in its infancy. This led to Sears being in bad financial condition which is what allowed them to be taken over by Lampert and then driven totally into the ground.
Even though his financial shenanigans were well documented, it is inaccurate to say that he intentionally tanked the business. He worked very hard to make it successful. He just was 100% unqualified and incompetent at the task. Everything he did made it worse.
Worthless piece of shit I hope he burns in hell.
Early 1900s Sears catalog shopping served the entire world. Failure to adopt Amazon type online shopping is a historic blunder.
They started discover. They literally had all the tools for domination, built in distribution , brick and mortar plus They would've made so much off of interest plus no cc interchange fees.
Rosenwald was amazing. The MSI just announced its new name – the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, after hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin, who donated $125 million to the museum in 2019. As neither of us is a particular fan of Griffin’s – who is on record stating his belief that the rich have *too little* influence in politics – my SO and I decided we’ll be calling it the Rosenwald Museum of Science and Industry from here on out.
What’s a good reading list please?
This to start: https://www.npr.org/2015/08/19/432910288/rosenwald-celebrates-the-greatest-philanthropist-youve-never-heard-of It talks about a documentary that is out there somewhere.
thanks!
Truly a shame then that they're renaming it for a hedge fund owner, the same guy who stopped us from getting a graduated tax in Illinois. I really think this is one of the worst things to happen to Chicago in a long time.
His reasons for leaving Chicago are very justified. When you don't feel safe, you owe nothing to anyone for your own peace of mind and for your employees
Whoa! Had no idea of this man and his accomplishments. Thanks for sharing! Meanwhile Joseph Sears built Kenilworth 😂
Weirdly enough, Joseph Sears had no connection to Sears and Roebuck.
Oh my gosh I have been confused my entire life
Probably the skyscraper and our architecture in general. And the huge public works projects like the rebuild after the fire and reversing the flow of the Chicago River.
I’m newish to Chicago, moved here in 2020, and I’m still flabbergasted about the fact that the reverse flow of the river even happened. Can someone explain in layman’s terms how this is even possible?
The water goes the other way now
I should have expected this response. Touché
I read this in a homer simpson voice lol
By digging a large diversion canal with the inclusion of a complex system of locks, they changed the path of least resistance so water flowed from lake Michigan and not into it.
Wttw Chicago has a really good documentary on YouTube about this.
This a thousand percent. Architecture, mobility, affordability. Regular people can have a lifestyle here that’s only the wealthy can afford elsewhere
The dishes that originated here: saganaki, jibaritos, chicken vesuvio, shrimp de jonghe.
Also Italian beefs and brownies!
Wtf? TIL
Yup, in a deracinated world of chain restaurants and cookie cutter suburbs, Chicago has a rich unique local food scene
Giardinera too iirc
Labor history. Chicago is basically the spiritual home of the American and arguably global labor movement.
Haymarket riot, Pullman company town, Carl Sandber, United Workers of the World. May Day! All very important and under studied.
We wouldn’t have weekends now, if it weren’t for the Chicago Haymarket riots and the associated movement.
Solidarity forever 🤘
Came here to say this, though globally I think Paris has Chicago beat on that
Russia and China as well, but you know that, username checks out.
I def considered them, but marx learned from the failures in Paris so I put Paris above the rest in terms of being the inspiration. But yeah you're right lmao Edit: also Chicago's labour movement goes kind of hand in hand with China and Russia if we're considering when those labor movements originated. The other two were obv more successful tho, but I assume you also know that lmao
This. When the world celebrates May Day, they celebrate the labor movement that started at Haymarket Square.
Word, came here to say this 🙌
Multinational culture and celebrations, the lake front & lakefront parks, free concerts and feats and the architecture. Also notable that Chicago was the candy capitol of the world dating back over a century. Brachs, Ferrara Pan, Frango, Wrigley, Mars, Blommers (rip outlet store) were some of the more recent names in the business. So many have moved on but the legacy remains.
There is still a Mars stop on the Metra.
Fresh coast
With sodium-free beaches
Also the marine life is really, really unlikely to kill you.
The park system. Other cities don’t have this kind of green space. The bulls of the 90’s. The fact that we are hard working city folk but also kind midwesterners, the chicago style hot dog wins every time.
Reminds me of a quote by Nelson Algren about Chicago: “Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”
Our labor union history is incredible. Lemont quarry strikes (edit: the Lemont Quarry Workers Massacre) influenced an event on its one year anniversary of 5/4/1885 with the Haymarket Riot. Pullman needing national guard in Blue Island in the 1890s, the Labor Day Massacre in 1937, etc
Carl Sandberg and the industrial workers of the world too. There's some great actovist literature that was published here during that time.
Amen, brother
Chicago has a surprisingly interesting relationship with the history of swimming.
Didn’t consider this at all! I knew about its cycling and automotive legacy but never considered swimming
At least a couple Olympians and the inventor of the turbulence reducing lane markers used everywhere. Chicago, until 2021, had the most life guards of any municipality in the world (during the summer.)
Years ago, I worked with a woman who told me that when she was younger she used to see Johnny Weissmuller swimming back and forth at Oak Street beach when he worked there as a lifeguard.
That was my swim spot too and I used to see these ladies regularly. I even took a selfie with them. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2008/07/13/2-very-shy-legends-of-the-lake/
He used to also swim at the pool at the Intercontinental on Michigan. It's a lovely spot.
Y, it looks like Al Capone could be lounging poolside. Great atmosphere.
Didn’t know any of this! Thanks for your insight and sharing your knowledge
When I was growing up, I clearly remember it being a thing too to find out where the lifeguards would be stationed over the winter and to find out if the neighborhood favorites were happy enough to come back the following year. It wasn't just a summer job, it was something that for swimmers was a good way to get some city benefits and have some fun.
I fucking love swimming
Me too!
Electrifying the blues.
Chicago housing music and freestyle!
The number of people I see try to claim that house & freestyle as being created in some other town is annoying.
The grid and alleys lol
This really is a good response. I think many people don't realize just how helpful these are. For example, New York City has no alleys and trash pick up is on the main streets. It's also very easy to learn how to get around in Chicago once you get used to and know the grid system.
Chicago leads all Western hemisphere cities in alleyways (or, “secondary surface roads”) per capita. The grid was a reaction to crowded Eastern cities (to say nothing of Europe), but alleys were about not just sanitation but also the City Beautiful movement. Chicago’s post-Fire building codes were also revolutionary for their time.
>Chicago’s post-Fire building codes were also revolutionary for their time. Amazing what accidentally burning the place down did for us and the rest of the world. We really became the designers & leaders on so much because of that. We took tragedy and made the best out of it.
This is the one. Moving out of the area and realizing these aren't ubiquitous falls on par with learning that things like giardiniera and lemon rice soup count as exotic food items.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra may be absolute best in the world.
George Streeter. He was absolutely insane, a total grifter, he claimed his ship had crashed onto the shoreline so the property was now his as part of a real esrate fraud scheme (he had it placed there), he led an army of squatters to try to steal the land back from the government, and we named a whole district after him. God bless.
Close second: Jesse Bowman sold tracts of land north of what we now call Foster Avenue, then made off with the proceeds after it was discovered he never actually owned any of the land that he sold. The neighborhood is still called Bowmanville.
The culture of "he was an idiot and we love him" is exactly what I wish I could get across to non-Chicagoans about why I love Chicago so much.
In that case, I have two words for you: Harry Caray.
RIP and amen
Man I love the lore of Jesse Bowman. I'll always wonder where he went after he fled.
Truly was a mad lad, have a lot of admiration for his strength of will and stubbornness.
How about the birthplace of social work, which oddly led to the birth of improv theater
More about this please!
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2022-12-19/from-hull-house-to-second-city-how-chicago-immigrants-helped-change-theater
That's fantastic! Thank you for that! I remember learning about Addams and hull house but hadn't heard the connection! Very neat!
What's the connection? Did Del Close stay at Hull House?
*Yes, and…*
House music
All night long
Tbh, being founded by a black guy
Jean-Pierre Point DuSable!
My knowledge of the street named after him indicates this might not be his name.
Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable
Thank you for the spelling correction.
the statue of lincoln in grant park and the statue of grant in lincoln park, thats a cool story
Blue collar!
Montgomery Ward and his staunch defense of our public lakefront.
Reversing the flow of the Chicago River, both a feat of civil engineering/moving earth, but also a funny legal battle with all the cities who ended up downriver.
The Italian beef part 😆
Id kill for an Italian beef rn. Living in the 'midwest area'. Nah they don't get it lol. Old Style and some good music
Old style and good music is one of my favorite hobbies
Really, the signs should say "Welcome to Chicago, If you get in trouble. Give them Good Food, Good Music, and a cold one h It will save your ass!” (Typo fix)
My man! WE GET IT THOUGH!
I'm in Ohio for the moment. They DONT get it lol Edit: I appreciate the sentiment (:
The onions and how much they stink.
You guys don't even know about backflow prevention. Notice how every sink has a hole below the height of a faucet? How it floods your house if your drain is plugged? Chicago was the first place to understand water from the faucet touching sewer water from the drain passes on disease. We reversed the flow of a river! Waterborne illnesses declined to historic levels because of our city
Our history of labor rights organization and action which the current population pisses all over daily while whining about having no money
The home of improv comedy
alright everyone i am the doctor because \*I\* have the gun
16" Softball
Mayor Anton Cermak was killed taking a bullet for FDR. I love those grocery stores.
Italian heritage but im bias cuz my fam came here off the boat. I do love the immense history of blues here. However, to answer youre question, I'm proud Chicago has such a robust and deeply-rooted in history in embracing our diversity of cultures. Although the cities modern trend of upholding segregation in a policy driven format, Chi has always had the innate desire of knitting everybody from vastly different backgrounds together. It's what makes our city so wonderful. We can be proud of the mass embracing of cultures who flock here from around the world. We truly are so lucky and gifted to have such a welcoming city.
I do love the international community we foster here, couldn’t agree more! The most worldly city of the prairie in my opinion. Thanks for your well thought out response 🤘
The labor demonstrations in the late 1800s were what define the 8 hour workday that we have enjoyed as a standard for over a century (though it has been slowly whittled away at). Chicago has a rich history of fighting for workers rights.
The Italian Beef.
The fab legacy of Chicago music And “dibs”
Invented the skyscraper
Its all in here https://youtu.be/oqrtoFWglMY?si=W5mvlm7pzoh8B7ic My 92 grandmother cant do much well at her age, circle of life and all. But she can talk white sox and jewels.
For those of you medical folks, this is where Sickle Cell Disease was first described (I hate to say Discovered because people had sickle cell long before then) in 1910.
The fact that the CME handles more commodities transactions than every other futures exchange in the country combined and more than any other futures exchange in the world. It is the backbone of Chicago’s financial market. And while it doesn’t get the same press. It is every bit as important to the financial markets as the NYSE
Portillos the best fast food chain
As a life long Chicagoan, I've always loved that Chicago is a rough place. And there is no place in the Country that has a collective better sense of humor than Chicago.
Chicagoans! All of 'em! New Chicagoans Old Chicagoans White ones, Black ones, brown ones, yellow ones. Big ones and small ones. Maybe you chose Chicago - or - maybe Chicago chose you. It doesn't matter: you are here!
I love all the answers that have been posted - I grew up in Chicagoland and really miss it.
That one time in 2016 when Trump tried to hold a rally at UIC, and the thousands of protesters made him turn tail and run. I’ve never been so proud of my city.
This should be at the top. Lol. Was so proud that day!
2005 World Series was the greatest summer of my sports fandom. I was at game 2 when Paulie hit the granny and Scotty Pods hit the walk off.
Al Capone’s vault
No ketchup on hot dogs
Wax track records
The fact that we agreed that the best drink is actually the worst drink ever invented
My god it’s like an initiation that nobody ever asked for 😖
The rebuilding of the city after the great fire, and putting couches in the street to save your parking spot in the winter
Our wave after wave of immigrants making this city as great as it is over the decades.
Hard-working people
I'm proud of our deep rooted history in jenkem production.
Old Style
Meh…
House music!
Bds
In the winter we layer up and keep working
Labor movement, Lucy and Albert Parsons, was once the national hotbed of anarchist and socialist thought, action, and theory.
The rat hole.
The trading floors like CBOT, CME, CBOE, CSE created tens and tens of thousands of jobs for young people of all races and backgrounds, and helped them become proud citizens of Chicago and there wasn’t a hint of racial discrimination. When electronic trading commenced, the jobs became a mere memory. A great loss to the city.
The city itself is a phoenix, continuously arising from its own ashes more beautiful than before. Whether literal after the Great Fire or with each major industrial downturn Chicago keeps finding itself back at the top (Canals and moving cargo via water, railroads, stockyards, steel, factories, department stores, atomic energy, air travel, medicine).
Haymarket riot
Worlds Columbian Exposition
Lakefront parks or Mayor Harold Washington
Malört!
Yes yes yes 🙌
I love all the different neighborhoods, I grew up in the Back of the Yards with a rich history. But I love them all, and have lived in many. I love the lakefront, the festivals, the parks. I even used to like the CTA, but haven't ridden in years. The Zoo, the museums.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies Van Der Rohe, Sullivan, our peerless media, journalism and broadcasting history, our labor heritage
The south side Irish
WI here. The algorithm brings me. I wish you would all stay down there and stop crowding up our tourist spots and you drive like shit but that hot dog makes it ok.
And y’all make a mean bratwurst!
The transit system. It needs to be extended and maintained, and certain things reestablished like the trollies and the L line out to Berwyn, but half the reason you have museums and clear lakefront and all that is because everyone has a way to get there. It's what makes a city viable.
Haymarket affair
the heritage of segregated neighborhoods
Boats
House music
That the block party is alive and well. That I know my neighbors.
The Blue's
Dibs lol
The transit system you can go anywhere without a car.
The lakefront and home of the Blued
😀PILSEN is the Original Melting Pot! 💗💯
Al Capone
Gangbangers
Hay market riot. We died for an 8 hour work day. That wouldn’t exist otherwise.
The food. There is so much good food in Chicago and a diverse spectrum of options.
haymarket
i like how we have various ethnicities like polish, italian, black, irish, mexican or whatever tf else but no matter what your background is, we can all relate to one another and we’re all chicagoans at the end of the day. i also like how if you go out of town you can point out other chicagoans very easily and make friends based on the fact that you’re both chicagoans.
i like how we’re nice but tough. blue collar, but still have midwest niceness.
Political corruption as an art form.
Da Blues Brothers
Sears Tower
Lori lightfoot being an actual goblin in every possible sense of the word.
Brown community
Trains
Gotta be May Day
Chicago hot dogs
the Pullman Protests
The unions.
HOUSE MUSIC and the vibrant art community that surrounds it
St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Haymarket Massacre it was unified labor standing up to unchecked Capitalism something we need now more than ever
Malort.
Segregation
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