2007 Grade 12 Trip
Ingredients for a great time …
A bit of history …
Chicago Timeline
The Chicago Fire 1871
+ some hard facts …
Ever since the world witnessed the first majestic Oscar Mayer “Wienermobile” rolling through the city streets of Chicago in 1936, the city has wowed the world with a series of inventions and discoveries. Along with the Wienermobile, you can thank Chicago for bringing you:
- roller skates (1884)
- first skyscraper in the country (1885)
(Home Insurance Building … no longer standing)
- softball (1887)
- the cafeteria (1895)
- malted milkshakes (1922)
- hostess Twinkies (1930)
- pinball (1930)
- controlled atomic reaction (1942)
- Peter Cetera (1944)
- first baseball curse involving a goat (1945)
- daytime TV soap operas (1949)
- Weber Grill (1951)
- Lava Lite ‘Lava Lamps’ (1965)
- house music (1977)
Chicago: general links +
Choose Chicago
The Chicago Tribune (local paper)
The Chigaco Sun-Times (local paper)
Chicago Reader
Chicago Mag
DAY #1 ~ May 22, 2007
Day’s Highlights
The Ford Motor Company
Ford Rouge Factory Tour
Detroit Industry by Diego Rivera
Every great city has great buildings, but Chicago is its great buildings. Art, culture, food, and diversion are all part of the picture here, but everything Chicagoans do is framed by some of the most remarkable architecture to be found anywhere. From the sky-scraping of its tall towers to the horizontal sweep of the Prairie School, Chicago’s built environment is second to none.
DAY #2 ~ May 23, 2007
Day’s Highlights
Magnificent Mile
Photos
History
More Magnificent Mile
Navy Pier (don’t miss the Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows)
Navy Pier
Architecture River Cruise
A View from the River
Untouchable Tour - It's A Blast
Chicago's Gangster Past
DAY #3 ~ May 24, 2007
Day’s Highlights
The loop is a living architectural museum, where shimmering modern towers stand side-by-side with 19th-century buildings. Striking sculptures by Picasso, Miro, and Chagall watch over plazas alive with music and farmers’ markets in summer. There are noisy, mesmerizing trading centres, gigantic department stores, internationally known landmarks like the Sears Tower and the Art Institute, and the city’s newest playground, Millenium Park. Rattling overhead, encircling it all, is the train system Chicagoans call the El.
Chicago's Loop
The Loop
Chicago Board of Trade
Auditorium Building
The Rookery
Fermilab
Henry Moore's "Nuclear Energy"
Andy's Jazz Club
Sears Tower
DAY #4 ~ May 25, 2007
Day’s Highlights
Wright Back in The City
Frederick C. Robie House (DID YOU KNOW? Robie House sits on a pedestal. Wright abhorred basements, which he considered unhealthy.)
Robie House
Historic Oak Park
Get out of Town ... Oak park
Just down the street ~ Ernest Hemingway
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
(The White Sox offer a certificate for guests to commemorate their first time at U.S. Cellular Field. Visit any Guest Relations Booth behind home plate to pick one up)
Cellular Field
Day #5 ~ May 26, 2007
Heading Home …
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