Chicago is located in northeastern Illinois along the southern tip of Lake Michigan's shore.

The City of Chicago should actually be the named "Mother of Vertical Architecture", and this with justice, since high building architecture, as we know now, was first made reality here more than 130 years ago. Famous names of that time are William Le Baron Jenney (First Chicago School), Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Second Chicago Shool).

Chicago is a harmonic city with an amazing cultural blending. Irish, Italian, German, Polish, African americans that migrated from the southern US, Mexican and Asian immigrants created Chicago as it is nowadays. This diverse mix has built a city with an unrivaled tradition of jazz and blues, an astonishing architecture, award-winning newspapers and universities full of Nobel laureates.

Downtown Chicago. View from the Shedd Aquarium




Chicago Tribune Tower




Downtown Chicago [2]




Brige over the Chicago River




Downtown Chicago (The Loop) [3]




Downtown Chicago (The Loop) [4]




Downtown Chicago (The Loop) [5]




Downtown Chicago (The Loop) [6]




Alexander Calder's Flamingo. Chicago Federal Center




Harold Washington Library Center

Links

Chicago Architecture Foundation
The Art Institute of Chicago
The City of Chicago
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The University of Chicago