Windy City of Chicago
6/20/2007
- Thanks to the Chicago online travel experience, I saved a lot of time and effort. Take the time to give me the impression it can also be written down for others it provides clues point. I am not a backpacker, nor live in the downtown, and the day's itinerary is not quantitative, it is not arranged in chronological order as well, but in culture - the family - thought to describe the feelings I have this neighbor Canada . Maybe someday I have no interest, and this article, estimates are not complete a follow-up. Where it is considered what to write.
No two people in the eyes of the world is exactly the same. In some people it seems, is not a tourist destination in Chicago, on the central eastern United States and the East side, it is not Washington as the political center, not New York's downtown, a symbol of the American dream, and no spectacular natural scenery. So that when I travel to Chicago, said when the customs officer tilted his head rather doubt that, looking at me: travel to Chicago? I smiled at him for sure, then get the entry permit. . .
Written for the Chicago lake, Lake Michigan to the city seem modern and simple, noise and comfortable. In my opinion, Chicago's charm lies in its unique art and culture in the United States, a fast-paced world is commendable. Chicago is known as America's third largest city, but it is now the Chicago fire of 1871, after reconstruction, the new Chicago, with its buildings of various styles and a lot of skyscrapers and become a living architectural museum. About architecture, or if you are building fans would like to look forward to the next what their future house ah, that must not miss the history of one of the most famous architects-Frank Lloyd Wright's Works. CAF Chicago Architecture Foundation offers a way to visit the bus master then living in Chicago, oak park when the design of the building, you can visit the downtown cruise colored high-rise buildings. But I did not participate, one is not interested, the second is too long a time, usually more than 2 hours. I do not to travel and tourism, but to pleasant and travel, so I prefer more sun in Lake Michigan.
Speaking of architecture, looks like we all highly recommend Sears Tower. This is a big expansion of the Sears Group, then the product when it dominated the world's tallest building twenty years, then finally the Twin Towers in Malaysia and Taipei 101 Tower, defeat, and now is still the tallest building in North America. Sears Tower in the west of Jackson close to the loop where, Skydeck is the only way to enjoy the scenery tower, that is really fast elevator to the show when the jump is 5 floors, less than a minute to the top. The building took three years is 9 squares going up and then staggered to build up the level, the top there are two large antennas. Of course, the station head is unable to see it its own, to see it get to Hancock. In the former tallest building, it can be arrogant to overlook all the major attractions and other high-rise buildings, such as museums, Chinatown, Little Italy. . . However, I still prefer the Hancock Building. Hancock is not in the past relative to some trouble. Chicago CTA bus system is the most despised. Take the CTA can reach a lot of 146 attractions, 146 can also take us to Hancock, Water Tower, etc., these buildings in the famous "Magnificent Mile" south of the point. Chicago Michigan Avenue known as the "Fifth Avenue", Magnificent Mile refers to the section of Michigan Avenue's bustling streets. For me, it can not buy anything, a little walk just fine. For those who prefer big shopping should be the next to feel fake Fifth Avenue. Oh. Hancock Building, the entrance is a little lower than the street plaza, diffuse out of the water stirred up from the street below pool numerous spray, many people are sitting here open. If you have a CityPass free pieces of evidence in the Hancock Building, the top tourist desk to get a recording on the service. Hancock building seen from the Sears Tower with roughly similar to the recording when he can explain the 13 rooftop swimming pool down to see, but unfortunately I only found three, there are quiet a few people inside the sun. Summer can be seen from the Hancock's view is the most attractive beach of the lake east. With aquamarine blue of the lake, covered with beach sand, wearing a colorful play of the men and women in swimming. . . Really beautiful scenery ah. I went to the day although the weather is good, did not see the interface between water and sky light smoke, where smoking is said to Indian tribes. . .
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I admit my ignorance, always thought of Chicago University of Chicago, the only cattle school, the other will not have much of a good cow. In fact Chicago is second only to New York and Los Angeles, America's third largest city, sparsely populated, and even airports are big scary (not to mention the world's first Great Lakes Lake Michigan, the 。。。)。 . . O'Hare International Airport is the U.S. largest and busiest passenger airport, the export entry is really numerous. I later discovered that each door is numbered, halo, estimated to be too much, afraid that people do not know where to find someone. I was bored at the airport Xia Zhuan and found the corridors leading to the export of CTA train above the Russian flag, so I quickly ran to see, the original was written by Chicago's sister city of Moscow, one after another along the corridor and see Italy , Canada, India, Korea and so on country's flag, was actually also see that ugly little Japanese flag hanging in there that says, Osaka, my heart really Jia, the Chinese national flag did not see how ah. Oh, another one found in the corridor of the Chinese national flag, the top of Shenyang. In fact, Shenyang and Shanghai, with Chicago are sister cities. It is a total of 27 sister cities, so a look back Poxian Windy City's reputation ah. More cattle, later told me that Keith and Fei Northwestern University in Chicago on the northern end of the main campus, the University of Chicago in Hyde Park where, in addition, also from Chicago, UIUC engineering elite less than 2 hours. The western suburbs of Chicago, there are A Gangguo home Institute, Bell Laboratories, Fermilab and other world-class laboratory. N Keith spent a long time to explain to me what Fermi had done a test, Fei also told me that before they can visit the lab, was banned after September 11. In urban areas more Motorola, Boeing, McDonald's, United Airlines (United Airlines) and other company's headquarters. Motorola is originated in Chicago, Keith told me that Motorola in Illinois now has three large research base, high-speed on the day I saw one, building to a less conspicuous. Of course, the Chicago Bulls is super famous.
Hancock also can go out from the prestigious Northwestern University Law School to see, to walk on. Along Michigan Avenue, a few can reach a tunnel I began to see the Hancock above a patch of sand. Through the channel, when a white singer in the following performances are not many people give money. I buy things remaining two quarter gave him, in Canada, these singers are generally thank vision, and he actually stopped to smile I said the word thank you. When I went to the beach is more than 3 pm, where many young people and children to enjoy the holiday in the sun, flocks of gulls on the beach sand and air twitter. The park is also next to the beach a lot of old man old woman sitting there walking the dog or reading the newspaper. Sitting on the beach side of the grass, I really want to have rushed to the tummy on the beach sun ah. . . Unfortunately, the hour is late, I rest a bit on through the park to the famous Navy Pier, where the training was to the U.S. Navy Pier, the end of the building side of repair of 2 with 2 large pillars, which is the origin of the name. There is no fun to mainly gift shops, restaurants and small food stores. I am too full to eat at noon, with hot, actually are not in the mood to try the colors under the meals here. From Navy Pier can participate in a lot of boat tour of Chicago, if you want to go next on the Museum Campus, I suggest you take the Water Taxi direct from the sea Well, CTA car people wait until the flowers are really grateful, and once again seriously despise it.
How many museums in Chicago I do not know, I can not go take a look. Fei said to generally have a museum one day, as I do have to fly at least every two hours the museum. So I just went to the CityPass above four museums. The four best known museums in Chicago, of which three are in the Museum Campus, take the 146 can reach, but I was from Millennium Park and Grant Park walked over, because I want to see that the platinum inside Grant Park Han fountain. When I went to the ground around the fountain is being repaired, the ground is sand, not grass. In the woods near the fountain I also saw President Lincoln sitting sculpture. The fountain near the lake, or you can look for.
From here on the lake for a walk to the Field Museum of Natural History. If the Museum Campus where the three museums is only time to see one, I highly recommend this museum. Here you can see Sue's bones, it is the world's largest and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex (referred to as T Rex, Chinese is the Tyrannosaurus Rex / Rex Long / Raptors). It's super big head that actually have more than 600 pounds, ah, see it's entire skeleton, I remind myself how lucky these ferocious meat giant extinct, or else how could mankind exist ah! There fossil museum, specimens of various animals, plants and insects, Egyptian mummies, and so on. There are also features display, when I went to the North American Indian history in the show, opposite the Chinese civilization, most of the Han Dynasty show. Among them, the museum also has a dedicated showroom in Tibet exhibition Tibet's religious and civilization. In particular, where the door posts a lot about the Dalai Lama make a speech in the United States and Chicago report, there is a post column next to the right, many called for the liberation of Tibet, free Tibet slogans, are the tourists left. Some support the left is opposed to split China policy message. Field Museum probably want visitors to understand the Tibetan culture and Chinese traditional culture and Tibetan independence it different. Americans, but added the name of officiating under the banner of freedom everywhere to promote their own political ideology. Whether culture is not the same, the United States are not eligible to interfere in China's internal affairs, to say that cultural differences, to see how your own ancestors were trampling the bones of countless Indians, destroyed their culture and religion of the United States to expand the downtown Kingdom it.
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Museum Campus Shed Aquarium and Adler Planetarium as well. Aquarium is also worth a visit. In addition you can see a variety of fish, corals, there are many reptiles, such as various lizards. I would be delighted to see the chameleon is easy to find, because it is surrounded on a few branches, also see the Komodo dragon, which kept in a special treatment of the large glass house, which is sand. Captive animals was always less share of wild, I do not see it over activity, as a kind of wood lying there. These are all kinds of lizards are always angered many tourists nausea, Oh, I see a lot of ladies and gentlemen in the Hall constant frown lizards. Guy, it is estimated that Americans should be, met with me several times, and then looking at lizards, he kept taking pictures, I asked him if he was not very fond of these reptiles, he does not like screaming, but he have to look at, because he did not read so many large and small lizards. Oh. In the aquarium there is the world's largest snake species: python. I hate snakes, but I still turn around the snake for a long time, because I only saw the thick snake with my thigh, but did not find that disgusting triangular head. There are two U.S. side is also that little girl look, I have asked them to find the head, they are nervous, said: We would rather not see its head. Dizzy me laugh. Looked at the snake, my body from the lump, can not help but shiver a few times, give the edge to see a woman, and she actually told me laugh. Khan. Another aquarium aquarium, there are dolphins, sharks and a white whale, do not remember what the scientific name, simple-minded way, where the old show. There are a few lazy sea lions seals or something. Best to see that the hippocampus, the hippocampus is the original and some colorful, like a flower, no, I have not seen such beautiful flowers. Some of the hippocampus or sparkling.
Adler Planetarium personally think that is no fun. But that is also worth seeing the movie theater spherical. I think the Egyptian night, about how people in ancient Egypt developed a calendar based on astronomical phenomena. Stars full of empty, the passage of time not that scene where you can see. Looks like there is a Star Planetarium where, when I went to did not open.
In addition to the three adjacent museum, Museum of Science and Industry in Hyde Park area, near the University of Chicago. I later found that the neighborhood is not so close. . . Museum of Science and Industry and the Field Museum is also worth visiting the same place. Science Museum is the most famous prisoner in Germany during World War II U.S. submarine U505, and the Americans use it to promote their own wars. In the museum there are aircraft, locomotive, carriage, 18th-century streets and so on. In addition, there are many mechanical devices can play. More interesting still Fei told me that the Swiss Jollyball, Fei said that the ball did not move the process of reading, but I have read. Is actually a ball through a series of reaction mechanism. These devices have trains, elevators, cars, boats, bells, etc., but eventually the ball back to the starting point, ready for the next cycle. More recently, IBM and other investors to establish that the laboratory network. Go in first before you can spend money to buy an electronic key, the laboratory can understand signal transmission in the network, a node in the hands touch, the nodes on the block, the signal had to pass. I and a little girl point to point, the last signal trapped in a branch on the way. There is also a code of interesting. Touch the code words on the screen. In addition to graphics and other content. Science Museum There are many places to play games, such as skiing, flying submarine or something. I also slipped a ski there, but looks like there are children playing. In this museum you can learn many things, but it takes time. For me, also had a rough look at it, even so, it took me nearly three hours.
In addition to these museums, there are more well-known Chicago History Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as numerous cinemas theater. Ethan is one of Chicago symphony orchestra where violin performances, and the Symphony Hall in my very favorite AIC (Art Institute of Chicago) opposite.
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Out from the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago can go to college. Rockefeller created the University of Chicago in the end beef cattle do not, huh, huh. To promise the world until the 2006 Bell Award winner as the top three largest university in Cambridge, Columbia, University of Chicago. University of Chicago alumni have won 79 Nobel Prizes, including physicists Tsung-Dao Lee, Chen Ning Yang, Tsui. 2 alumni won the Turing Award, 12 National Medal of Science professor who had won, the incumbent professors in more than 60 National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and the National Medical Academy of Sciences. Halo, Lien Chan actually also alumni. (The above from the wiki). 22 of them formed a Nobel laureate in economics, the Chicago School, well-known - I mentioned earlier the Fermi nuclear fission chain reactors built in the laboratory is the first University of Chicago for two years after the birth of the atomic basis, University of Chicago, also known as the "birthplace of atomic energy."
Ask the way before the time the old woman replied that: you see that pile up a large block building is the University of Chicago Library, and later a MM also said that the bulk of the building you see when you went to the University of Chicago the. It seems the library is always a sign of the University of ah. 58/59 Street, east along the 57 or walk 1 mile (!) Above can only be to the main campus. University of Chicago campus is not closed, to run through the streets are relatively quiet here, and street signs everywhere is the same: to stop this unauthorized vehicles will be towed away, the cost of hundreds. After the first sports management, go to see a huge badge of the University of Chicago, above a Yingtou. Was seen as biological laboratories, seminaries, etc., then finally found the famous Stan Reagan Library. So casually rolled, seemingly very Duoge Te-style buildings, many buildings also ivy annihilation, and the University of Chicago is not a real pity of an ivy league. Computer Science had specifically wanted to look, the results look like students to ask a guy, he only knew the name of the Block House, where the Department does not know which seat floor. Later, an online home search, I found the main campus visit is one of the three parts, the other two I have not fully come. University of Chicago, I feel very calm and very comfortable all very simple, even I have not seen obvious signs like great big gate. University should be so, not based on the hustle and bustle of the city, nor do they need to spend repair some of the magnificent building, just get down to doing research, teaching and straight up just fine. Think of the so-called prestigious universities in China (including Chinese workers included) nothing to repair on throwing money at the gate, big spenders, with each other for some meaningless comparisons, really let me blush. Do not know when to have their own Chinese University of Chicago.
Trip to Chicago shocked me the most is the Art Institute of Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, this should be the center of the arts. Earlier on, I saw so many people recommend to go here, and many will say to each all here in Chicago. I do not art developed cell types, but if you go to Chicago once, I must go to AIC, and at least one day. The day when I have to go fast 5:00, just a week of summer AIC 4 / 5 at 5-9 points is free, down a few dollars for the province. In fact I intend to go on the first day, but unfortunately because they do not bring food and drink can, so we did not go into the inside. I want to catch metra train, which spent only 1 hour. Holding a map, first find the Impressionist and Post Impressionist exhibition, because I know also if two painters had. Halo. First, see a lot of Monet's works, such as waterloo bridge, Monet made good pieces, AIC 2, 3 pieces on display. There are heaps of water lily and wheat are all pieces of art, such as sunrise and sunset in different seasons and different. Most of the rest of the 17/18 century French painter's painter, I do not know who, but the painting looks like it is not how impression. Only the beginning to see Monet's "Capitol" "fog" is a bit too "impression" of the. I have installed equipment that is nothing more artistic, can not read too much do not like to see the impression of painting. Later saw the same point rather well-known painting is representative of a painter, an important figure in post-Impressionism: George Seurat's work is his masterpiece, "Jack Island Sunday afternoon" (A Sunday on La Grande Jatte) and "Aspen Ni Aier the bath." Then he saw the genius and madman that many of the works of Van Gogh, including AIC collection of a Van Gogh self-portrait (other than self-portrait collection in Amsterdam and Paris), some still life paintings. But seemingly not seen the works of Van Gogh like sunflower. AIC there are many classic Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Renoir looks like Chinese) work, in which a dance is loaded with 2 little girls in high school textbooks on art appeared! In addition, there Gustave Caillebotte masterpiece "rainy streets of Paris." This rough look on the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, 1 hour later. Then I statistics, AIC studio display more than 150, not including the works of the corridor. The Impressionist and only six of them. Many young people still in the outline with a pen and paper records of these masterpieces. If they did read on as I traveled one week not to AIC. BTW, there is the Museum of Art sculpture, architectural art, and so on, for example, in the corridor downstairs to see the previously mentioned architect Frank Lloyd Wright related to what the doors and windows, seemed more abrupt.
All in all, to the AIC can be considered intellectuals posing as a return. Ha ha ha.
