Chicago - the progenitor of the modern American urban architecture. Urban skyscrapers began to appear here in 1885, forming the business center of the metropolis. This high-rise buildings blend harmoniously with historic buildings like the Commodity Exchange in the famous Loop (Loop). Trump Tower, Chicago Spire, Merchandise-March, the John Hancock Center, Sears Tower, Uotrevyu Tower - all these high-rise buildings form the core of Chicago. Parks camouflage the industrial zone, which at the Michigan missing. This is Millennium Park, Grant Park, and Barnem Jackson, Lincoln Park 1868, Hyde Park. Within these green spaces is about four dozen beaches, nature reserves, as well as Soldier Field, and business center McCormick Place. To the east of the city you can find lake pier, which was operated in 1918. Today, it is amazing beautiful amusement park with a museum for children, theater, a Ferris wheel, a botanical garden, the whole town catering. The main historical landmark of Chicago specialists unanimously believe the water tower, miraculously survived after a devastating fire in 1871.

 

Also worthy of attention Museums: Science and Industry, Painting with the best collection of paintings of American artists, Natural History, Mexican art, African-American Culture, Nature Peggy Noutbert, Contemporary Art, the Jewish Museum Spertus, as well as a huge aquarium, Aquarium, Adler Planetarium, Chicago Cultural Center . You can not ignore the Leisure Centre Six-Flags, Mag Mile, Tribune Tower, reminiscent of the Stalin era skyscrapers, Wrigley Field, the Museum of Chess Records, blues, Chicago Skyscraper Temple Temple, the Cathedral of St.. Nicholas Cathedral and numerous church. What are interesting places to see in Illinois Illinois - amazing beauty of the state, adjacent to the Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, who are famous for wonderful scenery and cultural traditions. In the south of the state is Shawnee National Forest, which is protected by the state. Green Zone covers an area of ​​1,100 km2, which grow trees planted under President Franklin Roosevelt. The forest was planted in 1939, deciduous trees, as well as rare plants listed in the Red Book of the American counterpart. Guides necessarily tell that during the melting of the ice sheet in place of the current reserve appeared the gorge, which grew relic Arctic plants, and which have not become extinct due to the shadows, coming from Little Grand Canyon. Here, in Shawnee, you can ride on a catamaran on Lake Cedar Lake, which was formed by the construction of dams Cedar Click. In reared amid the dense prairie town of Champaign is the largest campus of the State University of Illinois. Agglomeration attracts tourists with numerous museums, among which we should highlight the museum of William and Clarice Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, Historical Museum, Champaign County Municipal. History of the Illinois State History can safely be divided into four eras: pre-Columbian era, the French colonization, the expansion of the American state, the development of the state as the economic capital of the Midwest.

 

Before the discovery of America by Columbus continent local lands were the focus of American Indian cultures, as evidenced by the monument of 109 Cahokia mounds. In the 16th century there was a developed city civilization Mississippi, which has sunk into oblivion at the junction of 15-16 centuries. The land is also inhabited by tribes of the Illinois, the Iroquois against which acted on the orders of the Europeans. Later, they were replaced by families of Miami, Sauk. In the 17th century explorers Marquette, Joliat and De La Salle opened the land for the Old World, announcing their New France. After 100 years in the area came into the power of the British, but the war for independence gave Illinois the new American owner. In 1783, the state officially incorporated in the USA. Americans are feeling the economic potential of Illinois, formed the structure for the redemption of the native Indian land from the rightful owners. By the way, the right of this area belonged to the British, who a little earlier for a penny bought rich meadows near Lake Michigan. The British refused to accept the deal, but the truth the force was not on their side. February 3, 1809 can be called the birthday of the Illinois territory under American control. Since that time the mass settlement of Indian lands by US farmers and settlers from the Old World. In 1812, when England was at war on two fronts - against Napoleon's forces, and of Independent States, in Illinois began to build the first fortifications. Unfortunately, bastions to our times is not reached due to a fire in 1871.