Well, in New York we seem to look all the fun. Not everything written, but everything looked. And when there was a question where to go next, first thought was California. There’s warmth, ocean, Arnold Shvartsneger. It is very tempting and too obvious, so we decided a little frostbitten. With the next option seemed the most interesting cities Chicago, especially that in America it is sometimes called the «Second City.» So the next second. Tickets bought our mini plane you have seen, flew to Chicago.
What we know about Chicago? The same as all — their time there and traded with Al Capone had a lot of gangsters. And yet — Chicago Bulls, who as a child was not their caps… Then there is Lake Michigan, the bottom of which are the same gangsters in the basin. Allegedly and everything. We expect to see the same in New York, except slightly smaller and the lake. But we are a bit wrong, to put it mildly.
1Although initially all really the same — skyscrapers, skyscrapers… You could easily give New York for Chicago, if the shot accidentally hit Willis Tower, the second tallest building in the United States. Online he left, a black, with a barely noticeable spike.
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Have you already thought knew Willis Tower? But no, this time it’s Trump Tower, the third tall building of the United States.
7In this fog of easily confused. After completion of the Willis Tower in 1974 (then Sears Tower) became the tallest building in the world. Skyscraper held the record for 23 years until 1997 was not intercepted Malaysian Petronas twin towers.
8Chicago is located on Chicago River, which runs through the city and the business quarter Chicago Loop:
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Principle — in the course of time from the center, the less floors in buildings — naturally follows:
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To prevent children and not spend chalk rubbed fingers at playgrounds are stands with «Noughts and crosses»:
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Once we thought that the full picture is missing also park at once and that’s it — Millennium Park.
17Find it difficult, it is huge and you find yourself. Millennium itself — is only part of the park complex Grant Park, its beginning can be found on the famous monument mercury drops, which for some reason called cloud gate. In the background — Legacy Tower skyscraper — housing for citizens and building a successful Chicago School of Arts:
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It turned out that the whole park, and this for a moment 101,000 m2, located on the roof. Indeed zhlobske relation to land — could easily build a shopping center, a parking-it already is.
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Gradually the picture starts to emerge. No colorful advertising signs. All labels are also strict on the facade. Wider roads instead of asphalt — concrete.
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Do you know how much to police to regulate traffic at the intersection? The four — one for each street. This is despite the fact that the lights are everywhere. At such moments a feeling of security. What terrible can happen to you in the city where the intersection is regulated by four ministers of order. Crime is certainly long been punished, and self-esteem of its members dropped through the floor.
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When it was time pidzhyvytysya over the menu we have not even pondered. After watching one of the episodes of «How I Met Your Mother» Chicago we associated only with one dish — pizza.
46For typical Chicago pizza is thin foundation and a very large number «yidla.» A good place for a first meeting — 312.
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Five of the ten tallest buildings are located in Chicago, United States. You can climb to the Willis Tower (110 floors) or John Hancock Center (100 stories, one of the tallest residential buildings in the world). We, as always, was lucky with the weather. They say that on clear days from Willis Tower observation deck can see the next four states.
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