Chicago is rightfully considered the economic, industrial, transport and cultural capital of the Midwest. Unofficially it is sometimes called "second city" and "city of winds". Perhaps the best way to see all the architectural wonders of Chicago is to walk on a boat on the river, which is called the "architectural tour."
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Climate Chicago
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The best time in Chicago is spring and autumn. Winter here is quite cold, up to -30 °, and summer - hot, the temperature can rise to +40 ° C. It is worthwhile to focus on the following months: April and May - the time when all five hundred and more Chicago parks blossom, and from the beginning of October to the first half of November - the months when crimson-golden autumn sets in.
See also the current weather forecast in Chicago for the next few days
How to get to Chicago
You can get to Chicago with a transfer in America (only from Moscow) or in Europe. Delta Air Lines and Aeroflot fly from Sheremetyevo to New York's JFK Airport, from where they can fly to Chicago by Delta, American Airlines, Continental Airlines or Northwest Airlines.
In addition, many European airlines with connections: Northwest Airlines and KLM (Amsterdam), Swiss through Zurich. From St. Petersburg to Chicago, it's cheaper to fly KLM through Amsterdam with a 16-hour transfer on the way there or Alitalia via Milan - with a 15-hour transfer.
From Yekaterinburg you can fly by British Airways - American Airlines through London, cheaper - SSA via Prague and New York, or - through Moscow. Lufthansa also flies to Samara, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Rostov-on-Don and Ufa - so from these cities you can get to Chicago with only one transfer.
Transportation
There are three agencies in Chicago that meet for public transport:
- CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) - Chicago Transportation Administration 152 bus routes and 7 metro lines. CTA routes cover the whole of Chicago and 40 nearby suburbs. Blue and orange CTA train lines connect the city center to the city airports
- Metra is a commuter rail system serving Chicago and the six nearby counties of Illinois and the northwest of Indiana. Metra trains serve about 200 railway stations located on 11 lines. Only one of them is electrified, the rest are using diesel locomotives
- Pace - a shuttle bus system serving mainly six adjacent districts of Illinois in Chicago, as well as several routes in the city itself.
There are 2 major airports in Chicago and several small. O'Hare International Airport is located west of Chicago - it is one of the largest airports in the world. It has 4 terminals: 1, 2, 3 - for domestic flights, and the 5th terminal - international (number 4 assigned to the bus terminal). The second airport, Midway, is much smaller and is located in the south-west of the city.
Fun, sightseeing and sightseeing Chicago
First of all, these are, of course, skyscrapers: the quaint Sears Tower (108 floors, built in the 70s), John Hancock's 100-storey building, Eon Building (83 floors), Marina City towers and forty-story editorial office Chicago Tribune. " And also a hundred buildings built by the best architects of the twentieth century.
The Museum of Science and Industry is located in the Jackson Park area, Hyde Park district near Lake Michigan, in the building of the former Palais des Beaux-Arts of the 1893 World Colombian Exhibition. Among the exhibits are a working coal mine, a German U-505 submarine, a model railway, the first diesel passenger train "Pioneer Zephyr", and also a spacecraft that participated in the Apollo-8 mission. In 2007 this museum took the 2nd place in terms of the number of visitors among the museums and attractions of Chicago
Naval pier - the main tourist site of the city with a Ferris wheel, carousels and the Children's Museum with dinosaurs
Address: 600 E Grand Avenue; Working hours: Mon-Thu 10: 00-20: 00, Fri-Sat 10: 00-22: 00, Sun 10: 00-19: 00.
The Art Institute of Chicago is one of the best museums in the US, known before in all, a collection of impressionists and post-impressionists.
Address: 111 S Michigan Avenue, tel .: (+1 312) 443-36-00; working hours: Mon-Wed, Fri 10: 00-16: 30, Thu 10: 00-20: 00, Sat-Sun 10: 00-17: 00, admission is 12 USD, free TWO.
Worth visiting The Millennium Park with its attractions: Frank Gehry's music pavilion, McCormick's ice rink, tribune, fountain, polished steel sculpture Anish Kapoor and many others
Address: square between Michigan Avenue, Columbus Drive, Randolph Street and Monroe Street; Working hours: Mon-Sun 6: 00-23: 00, admission is free
Chicago Museum Campus
Museum Campus Chicago - a park with an area of 230,850 sq. m. m on the shore of the lake, in which there are three major exposition of the city: the Adler Planetarium, the Shedd Aquarium and the Field Museum of Natural History.
There are three theaters with heavenly spheres in the planetarium. The Zeiss projector of the planetarium can accurately reproduce all movements in the celestial sphere.
The Field Museum of Natural History is known for the following exhibits: Sue is the most complete skeleton of the tyrannosaurus, an extensive collection of anthropology and ethnography, a large taxidermic collection, a collection of dinosaurs in the hall "Rotating planet" and much more
John G. Shedd Aquarium contains over 25,000 fish.
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