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Chicago’sCulture & Contemporary Life

+Performing Arts

The Second City was the birthplace of modern improvisational comedy. >

+ Literature

Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, a Chicago suburb.

+Music Chicago is best known for its blues, jazz, soul & gospel

music.

+Festivals – Music & Others Lollapalooza – 3 day alternative rock, punk, hip hop music

festival in August.

Chicago Blues Festival – early June

Chicago Jazz Festival – Labor Day weekend

Grant Park Music Festival – 10 week classical and jazz music series in Milennium Park

Chicago Air & Water Show – display of aircraft and watercraft on the coast of Lake Michigan

Chicago Auto Show – the largest auto show in North America takes place in February

St. Patrick´s Day Parade – the Chicago River is dyed green during this March 17 celebration.

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+Visual Arts

+Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute is a fine art museum located in Grant Park. It´s the second largest art museum in the US (after the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY), and it´s most famous for its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works. It also houses a wide variety of contemporary and modern art as well as decorative arts.

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+Museum CampusChicago’s near south side houses four of the most important

museums the city has to offer:

Adler Planetarium

Museum of Science & Industry

Field Museum of Natural History

Shedd Aquarium

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+Aerial View of Museum Campus

+Adler Planetarium It was the first one built in the Western Hemisphere

+Museum of Science & Industry It was originally built as the Palace of Fine Arts for the 1893

World´s Columbian Exposition.

+Field Museum The Field Museum of Natural History houses the world´s

largest and most complete Tyrranosaurus Rex skeleton, Sue.

+Shedd Aquarium It was the first aquarium with an inland saltwater fish

collection.

+Sports

Baseball: Cubs & White Sox

Football: Bears

Ice hockey: Blackhawks

Basketball: Bulls

Soccer: Fire

+Soldier Field The stadium is dedicated

to American soldiers who have

died in wars.

+Cuisine Chicago´s restaurant scene has been influenced by several

immigrant cultures. Some of its ethnic districts include: Greektown Little Italy Chinatown Although they’re not official disctricts, you can find plenty of

Polish, Mexican, Vietnamese, Korean, Indo-Pakistani, and of course American food…

+Saganaki

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+Local specialties

Chicago style deep dish pizza

Chicago style hot dog

Polish hot dog

Bratwurst

Italian beef sandwich

+The original Chicago-style hot dog

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+Taste of Chicago

”The Taste” is the world´s largest food festival. It´s a 10 day food & music festival that takes place in July.

+Navy Pier

+Lincoln Park

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