Oge began writing blog post in 2017 after finishing his Secondary Education at Saint Patrick's Secondary School Enugu. He attended Zhejiang University of science and technology at the department of Digital Media Technology also currently schooling at Enugu State University of science and technology (ESUT) In the department of Geology and Minning. Oge Ebube has many works in Music and he is currently writting a short novel 'Je suis Prisoner: I'm a Prisoner'.
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At a Look
Welcome to Chicago, the third largest metropolis in america, with a inhabitants of almost three million folks.
Chicago is dwelling to…
- 2,716,450 residents
- 50 wards
- 77 neighborhood areas
- 100 neighborhoods
- eight main league sports activities groups, together with two MLB groups
- United States President Barack Obama
Chicago is a celebrated melting pot…
- 36 annual parades
- 40 annual movie festivals
- 74 music festivals
- 200 skilled dance firms
- Greater than 200 theaters
- 250 dwell music venues
- 40+ annual movie festivals
- 20+ movie and filmmaker nonprofit organizations
- 12+ artwork home and impartial cinemas
- 13,000 movie and TV manufacturing jobs
- 400+ particular person movie and TV productions
(Sources: DCASE, Select Chicago)
Chicago is a metropolis in a backyard…
- 600 parks
- 500 playgrounds
- 70 nature and fowl sanctuaries
- 307 fields for soccer, soccer, lacrosse and extra
- 250 subject homes
- 534 tennis courts and 6 indoor courts
- 80 swimming swimming pools
- 29 seashores
- 26 miles of open lakefront
(Supply: Park District)
Chicago is a biking metropolis…
- Chicago has the second-highest share of commuters driving their bikes to work
- Bicycle commute instances within the area common solely 23 minutes
- 303 miles of motorbike lanes
- 19 miles of lakefront bicycle paths alongside Lake Michigan
- 303 miles of motorbike lanes
- 13,000+ bike racks
- A 40-acre bike path for BMX and trail-riding
(Supply: DPD)
Chicago is a foodie vacation spot…
- Greater than 7,300 eating places
- 7 AAA Diamond-rated eating places
- 26 Michelin-starred eating places
- 40 James Beard Award-winning eating places, and host of the annual James Beard Awards
- 54 Bib Gourmand winners
- 144 dog-friendly eating places
Sports activities: A Metropolis for Sports activities Followers
As a lot as Chicagoans wish to play sports activities, we additionally love to look at the professionals do it. Chicago has been named the Greatest Sports activities Metropolis by Sporting Information thrice and has made TSE’s worldwide Rating of Sport Cities yearly since 2012.
Biggest Chicago Sport Moments
1837: The Invention of Softball
1906: Chicago White Sox win World Collection
1907: Chicago Cubs win World Collection
1908: Chicago Cubs win World Collection
1917: Chicago White Sox win World Collection
1935: Chicago Cubs safe a document because the third-longest unbeaten MLB recreation streak with 21 consecutive wins.
1935: Chicago native, Jay Berwanger was the primary recipient of the Heisman Trophy.
1977: Walter Payton Units File
1986: Chicago Bears win Tremendous Bowl
1991-1993 Chicago Bulls, 3peat
1996-1998 Chicago Bulls, 3peat
1998: Chicago Hearth wins MLS Cup
2005: The Chicago White Sox win the World Collection and break 88-year title drought
2010: Chicago Blackhawks win Stanley Cup Championship
2012: Chicago Purple Stars win Nationwide Girls’s Open
2013: Chicago Blackhawks win Stanley Cup Championship
2015: Chicago Blackhawks win Stanley Cup Championship
2016: The Chicago Cubs win World Collection; break 108-year title drought and broke the “Curse of the Billy Goat”
Sports activities Areas
- Wrigley Subject – Lake View
- GuaranteedRate Subject (Previously Comiskey Park) – Bridgeport
- Soldier Subject – South Loop
- United Middle – Close to West Facet
- Wintrust Area – Close to South Facet
- Toyota Park – McKinley Park
Main League
- Chicago Cubs – baseball
- Chicago Bears – soccer
- Chicago Bulls – basketball
- Chicago White Sox – baseball
- Chicago Blackhawks – hockey
- Chicago Hearth – soccer
- Chicago Sky – basketball
- Chicago Purple Stars – soccer
NCAA
- DePaul Blue Demons
- Loyola Ramblers
- Chicago State Cougars
- UIC Flames
A Melting Pot of Arts & Tradition
Dance
Dwelling to greater than 200 skilled dance firms together with the Joffrey Ballet and Hubbard Avenue Dance Chicago, Chicago delivers a packed calendar of performances on downtown phases and in neighborhood venues and parks. The town is the positioning of an influential hip-hop scene, and it has launched new music and dance types resembling Chicago juke and footwork. For greater than twenty years, Chicago has hosted Chicago SummerDance, the most important annual outside dancing collection within the U.S. Don’t neglect, each April is ‘Chicago Dance Month’ throughout town.
(Supply, DCASE)
Movie
Affordability, prime notch crew and expertise, and state-of-the-art amenities and distributors have made Chicago a hotbed for movie and tv relationship again to The Blues Brother. Notable studios embrace Cinespace Studios, the most important North American soundstage exterior of L.A and Music Field Movies, one of many main distributors of overseas language movies documentaries within the U.S. For movie followers, there’s the free Millennium Park Summer time Movie Collection and movie festivals year-round just like the Chicago Worldwide Movie Pageant, the Latino, Black Harvest, Reeling (LGBTQ), Underground, Midwest Unbiased, and Youngsters’s Worldwide movie fest.
- 40+ annual movie festivals
- 20+ movie and filmmaker nonprofit organizations
- 12+ artwork home and impartial cinemas
(Supply, DCASE)
Music
Chicago is the birthplace of gospel, electrical blues, home, juke, footwork, and drill. The distinctive sounds born in Chicago proceed to resonate world wide. We’re additionally the house of famend artists together with Louis Armstrong, Jennifer Hudson, Earth, Wind and Hearth, Likelihood the Rapper, Widespread Smashing Pumpkins, Rise In opposition to, Muddy Waters, and Kanye West. Chicago is a metropolis music of festivals, celebrating each music style. Expertise Chicago’s most notable music festivals together with the Chicago Blues Pageant, the Chicago Jazz Pageant, Lollapalooza, Pitchfork Music Pageant and Riot Fest.
- 250 dwell music venues together with the world-renowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera, and Joffrey Ballet.
- 74 music festivals the Chicago Blues Pageant, Pitchfork, and Lollapalooza
- Thalia Corridor – Pilsen
- Vic Theater – Lakeview
- Riviera Theater – Uptown
- Home of Blues – River North
- Inexperienced Mill – Uptown
- Aragon Ballroom – Uptown
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Downtown
- Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz
- Ravinia Pageant
- Huntington Financial institution Pavilion at Northerly Island
- The Metro – Lakeview
(Sources, DCASE. ChooseChicago)
Theatre
Chicago is the theatre capital of the U.S.— birthplace of storefront theatre and improv comedy, dwelling to long-running Broadway hits and boasting extra world premieres than every other metropolis within the nation. Chicago’s 250-plus theatre firms take the stage at greater than 200 theatres to carry out work as different and various as their audiences. Theatre-goers can select from 1000’s of performances yearly, that includes all the pieces from Shakespeare to selection, in lots of languages. From the grand historic downtown theatres to these tucked away in a neighborhood storefront or church basement, audiences will discover theatre of the best high quality all through town. Discover from one of many 150-plus buildings with behind-the-scenes excursions.
(Sources, DCASE, ChooseChicago)
Lengthy Standing Chicago Theaters
- Second Metropolis – Outdated City
- Music Field Theater – Lake View
- Goodman Theater – Loop
- Chicago Theater – Loop
- Mayne Stage – Rogers Park
- Lifeline Theater – Rogers Park
- Blue Man Group at Briar Avenue Theater – Boystown
- Apollo 2000 (Previously Marshal Sq. Theater) – Little Village
- Gateway Theater – Jefferson Park
- Steppenwolf Theatre Firm
- Victory Gardens Theatre
- Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
- Lookingglass Theatre Firm
A Metropolis in a Backyard
The great thing about Chicago lies not solely in its magnificent structure, but in addition within the metropolis’s huge preserved inexperienced and open areas. Chicagoans have over 580 parks and eight,300 acres of inexperienced areas at their disposal. With seashores, ice rinks and bike paths, there isn’t any scarcity of out of doors recreation for Chicagoans.
Parks district – https://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/
(Sources: DPD, Park District)
606/Bloomingdale Path
A $95 million conversion of a former rail line to a 2.7-mile elevated park that extends by way of 4 vibrant, Chicago neighborhoods. An enlargement will embrace 32 acres of linear park area alongside the Chicago River, 10 acres of sports activities and leisure fields and 17 acres of wetland park.
Chicago Riverwalk
An award-winning $108 million, 1.25-mile promenade alongside the south financial institution of the Chicago River downtown. Future enlargement will lengthen the Riverwalk south a further 1.eight miles from Lake Avenue to Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown.
Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park, on Chicago’s North Facet, attracts 20 million guests yearly. They arrive to see the nation’s oldest zoo to discover unique crops on the grand Victorian glass conservatory, take pleasure in performs on the outside theater, row alongside the canal, stroll by way of the North Pond Nature Sanctuary and Butterfly conservatory, picnic on the taking part in fields, and frolic on North Avenue Seaside.
Millennium Park
The highest vacationer vacation spot in Chicago and the Midwest in 2017, Millennium Park presents 25 acres of exuberant structure, serene gardens, grand pavilions, and dazzling fountains that sculpt gentle and water, strolling paths. The park is dwelling to a consistently rotating schedule of free cultural occasions for all ages, all yr lengthy.
Jackson Park
Jackson Park presents greater than 500 acres of mature parkland alongside the lakefront, containing flower gardens, watercourses to wooded isles, sports activities amenities, stocked fish ponds, 18 miles of strolling and biking paths—and it is the long run website of the Barack Obama Presidential Middle.
Greatest Bike Metropolis in America
Chicago was named America’s Greatest Bike Metropolis by Bicycling Journal in 2016. Chicago’s dedication to put money into higher bike infrastructure made biking it safer and extra comfy for everybody in Chicago, no matter age or capability.
Since 2011, Chicago has added…
- Greater than 115 miles of protected bike lanes
- A community of 303 miles
- 255 miles of on-street bike lanes
- 5 miles of off-street trails.
(Sources: DPD, Park District)
Extra Hyperlinks:
https://www.chicago.gov/metropolis/en/about/details.html
