CHICAGO

English-speaking cities

CPI Tino Grandío

2015

Josefina Feito - 3º ESO1

Location

•The city of Chicago is located in Illinois, USA

•It’s the most populated city in the United States after New York and los Angeles and the most populates in Illinois.

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USA

•The United States are in North America, bordering with the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and between Canada and Mexico.

•Size: 9,826,675 km2

•Population: 318,892,103

•Official languages: None at federal level

•Form of goverment: Federal republic

•The actual president is of USA Barack Obama.

Map of USA

Population

•The city has about 2.7 million residents.

•Age groups

•Races: About the 45% are white, 39.2% black, 5.5% Asian, 2.7% of other races and 0.5% American Indian.

•Languages: The most popular is English

•In Chicago the 59.62% are religious. There are a lot of types of different religions but the most common are catholic, other types of christian, baptist and islam.

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Cultural aspects

•The city has a lot of interesting places to visit. Some of them are:

•The Art Institute of Chicago: It’s a very beautiful museums wich works like a museum and like an art school.

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●The Chicago Cultural Centre wasfounded in 1897 to be the library of the city. Now it works like a cultural centre wich offers more than 1000

different activities to the citizens.

The Field Museum of Natural Historyis one of the largest natural history

museums in the world.

●The Cloud Gate is one of the most popular escultures in Chicago.

People call it The Bean because of its form.

Sport

•The most important sports and teams are:

•Baseball – Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox

•Football – Soldier Field, Chicago Bears

•Basketball – Chicago Bulls, Chicago Sky

•Ice hockey – Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Wolves

•Soccer – Chicago Fire

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Celebrities

There is a lot of famous people borned in Chicago, but some of the most important are:

• Al Capone

• Walt Disney

• Robin Williams

• Bill Murray

• Hillary Clinton

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Places to visit

•The Navy Pier

Is a long pier located in the shoreline of the Lake Michigan. Today, is one of the most visited attractions and Chicago's number one tourist attraction.

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●The Willis Tower (named in the pastSears Willis) it's a skyscraper of 442

metres.

●The Shedd Aquarium is an indoor publicaquarium wich contains over 32,500 fish

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Things to do

If you go to Chicago, you should:

•Go for a walk in the Millenium Park

•Listen to a blues concert

•Observe its beautiful architecture

•Eat a pizza like the “Chicago style”

•Go for a walk and buy something in the Loop

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Reference

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http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/about.html

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http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/chicago-population/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_Stateshttp://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/government_type.html

http://alierturk.deviantart.com/art/Chicago-Bean-337449667

http://www.bestplaces.net/religion/city/illinois/chicago

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Museum_of_Natural_History

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Chicago