Chicago: Like No Place Else Discover why Chicago is a city all
its own. Travel magazines consistently rate Chicago as a top
destination. Forty-five million tourists visited the city in
2007 to experience attractions like the John G. Shedd Aquarium
that houses 26,000 aquatic animals; the Chicago Field Museum,
which has the most complete and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex
specimen ever found and the Museum of Science and Industry, the
world’s largest science museum in the Western hemisphere.
Chicago is a city that is a center of architectural,
educational, artistic and culinary distinction. Architecture.
Known for its architecture, the infrastructure of the city
itself is a living attraction with most of the downtown area
having been rebuilt after the great Chicago fire of 1871.
William Le Baron Jenney built the world’s first skyscraper in
Chicago at the northeast corner of LaSalle and Adams Streets.
The Home Insurance Building, completed in 1885, was the first
building constructed with an iron-and-steel-fram