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Things About Chicago - It's History, The White Sox, Real Pizzaor its size. Even its addiction to sports is jumbo. It's a huge, gracious, raucous city pumped full
of superlatives: the world's largest public library (Harold Washington Center), biggest bakery (Nabisco), busiest airport (O'Hare), longest street (Western Avenue), highest steeple (United Methodist), most trafficked road (Dan Ryan Expressway), biggest food festival (Taste of Chicago), and the longest drought since a World Series title (1908). The latest addition to Chicago's far-from-demure personality is the Frank Gehry-designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. What most impresses visitors is its major league architecture, and rightly so. Louis Sullivan gave birth to the skyscraper here, and his legacy, as well as that of his most distinguished disciple, Frank Lloyd Wright, is thrillingly in evidence, especially along the bustling lakefront. |
