| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
![]() |
||||||||||||||
![]() |
||||||||||||||
![]() |
||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||
| |
||||||||||||||
Complete Local Number Virtual Office Complete Toll Free Number Virtual Office For information or to start your
Chicago Virtual Office, Call
Chicago is located in Cook County, Illinois, which, with a population of five million people as of two thousand. It is the second most populous city in the US, after Los Angeles County, California. Founded in eighteen thirty-three at the site of a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, it soon became a transportation hub in North America. Since the Chicago World's Fair of eighteen ninety-three, one organization regards it as one of the ten most influential cities in the world. The name Chicago is the French rendering of the Miami-Illinois name shikaakwa, meaning “wild leek”, an analogical extension of the original meaning of “skunk”. Chicago in its first century was one of the fastest growing cities in the world, heavily promoted by Yankee entrepreneurs and land speculators. Its population reached 1 million by eighteen ninety. The city was the site of labor conflicts and unrest during this period, which included the Haymarket Riot on May fourth, eighteen eighty-six. Concern for social problems among Chicago’s lower classes led to the founding of Hull House in eighteen eighty-nine, of which Jane Addams was a co-founder. The city also invested in many large, well-landscaped municipal parks, which also included public sanitation facilities. The city is built on quite flat land; the average land elevation land is five hundred seventy-nine feet above sea level. The lowest points are along the lake shore at 577 feet, while the highest point at seven hundred thirty-five feet is a landfill located in the Hegewisch community area on the city's far south side. Chicago’s theater district spawned modern improvisational comedy. Two renowned comedy troupes emerged—The Second City and I.O., formerly known as ImprovOlympic. Renowned Chicago theater companies include the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, on the city's north side, the Goodman Theatre, and the Victory Gardens Theater. Other theaters sprang from nearly 100 storefront performance spaces such as the Strawdog Theatre Company, The House Theatre of Chicago, TimeLine Theatre Company and Remy Bumppo Theatre Company in the Lakeview area to landmark downtown houses such as the Chicago Theatre; present a variety of plays and musicals.
|
||||||||||||||