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Marina City in Chicago

7 February 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Marina City is a mixed-use residential-commercial building complex in Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America, designed by architect Bertrand Goldberg. The multi-building complex on State Street on the north bank of the Chicago River on the Near North Side, directly across from the Loop, opened between 1963 and 1967. Portions of the complex were designated a Chicago Landmark in 2016. The towers’ symbolic similarity to rural Illinois corncobs has often been noted in media.   read more…

Alton in Illinois

7 November 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General Reading Time:  9 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Alton is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, United States, about 18 miles (29 km) north of St. Louis, Missouri. The population was 25,676 at the 2020 census. It is a part of the River Bend area in the Metro-East region of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area.   read more…

Hyde Park in Chicago

11 September 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Universities, Colleges, Academies Reading Time:  6 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Hyde Park is a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, located on and near the shore of Lake Michigan 7 miles (11 km) south of the Loop. It is one of the city’s 77 municipally recognized community areas.   read more…

Lollapalooza in Chicago

4 February 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Berlin, Paris / Île-de-France, Events Reading Time:  9 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Lollapalooza (Lolla) is an annual American four-day music festival held in Grant Park in Chicago. It originally started as a touring event in 1991, but several years later, Chicago became its permanent location. Music genres include alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock, hip hop, and electronic dance music. Lollapalooza has also featured visual arts, nonprofit organizations, and political organizations. The festival, held in Grant Park, hosts an estimated 400,000 people each July and sells out annually. Lollapalooza is one of the largest music festivals in the world and one of the longest-running in the United States.   read more…

Wrigley Building in Chicago

15 December 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Wrigley Building is a skyscraper located at 400–410 North Michigan Avenue on Chicago’s Near North Side. It is located on the Magnificent Mile directly across Michigan Avenue from the Tribune Tower. Its two towers in an elaborate style were built between 1920 and 1924 to house the corporate headquarters of the Wrigley Company. Its bright white facade is covered in terra cotta.   read more…

Lake Forest in Illinois, Tree City USA

17 February 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Lake Forest is a city located in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 19,367. The city is along the shore of Lake Michigan, and is a part of the Chicago metropolitan area and the North Shore. Lake Forest was founded with Lake Forest College and was laid out as a town in 1857, a stop for travelers making their way south to Chicago. The Lake Forest City Hall, designed by Charles Sumner Frost, was completed in 1898. It originally housed the fire department, the Lake Forest Library, and city offices.   read more…

The Magnificent Mile in Chicago

13 February 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Shopping Reading Time:  5 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Magnificent Mile, sometimes referred to as The Mag Mile, is an upscale section of Chicago’s Michigan Avenue, running from the Chicago River to Oak Street in the Near North Side. The district is located within downtown, and one block east of Rush Street. The Magnificent Mile serves as the main thoroughfare between Chicago’s Loop business district and its Gold Coast. It is generally the western boundary of the Streeterville neighborhood, to its east and River North to the west.   read more…

Arlington Heights in Illinois

29 November 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General Reading Time:  12 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Arlington Heights is a municipality in Cook County with a small portion in Lake County in the U.S. state of Illinois. A suburb of Chicago, it lies about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of the city’s downtown. Per the 2020 Census, the population was 77,676. Per the 2010 Census, it is the most populous community in the United States that is incorporated as a “village”, and is the 13th most populous municipality in Illinois, although it is not far ahead of its nearby Illinois neighboring villages of Schaumburg and adjacent Palatine. Arlington Heights is known for the former Arlington Park Race Track, home of the Arlington Million, a Breeders’ Cup qualifying event; it also hosted the Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships in 2002. The village is also home to the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, which has one of the largest collections of books in the state.   read more…

Great River Road along the Mississippi River

10 July 2020 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Great River Road is a collection of state and local roads that follow the course of the Mississippi River through ten states of the United States. They are Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. It formerly extended north into Canada, serving the provinces of Ontario and Manitoba.   read more…