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Cover image photos by: Débora Carvalho Cha Chen Alicia Barceinas Cruz Wenqi Du Cagatay Dursun Miriam Gonzalez Vladislav Kamysbayev Nurzanty Khadijah Guangpu Li AEPP 2015 Henan Ma Rog Nie Ziyi Qin English Language Institute Wen Zhang University of Chicago Table of Contents Finding Chicago Central Loop ! The (0,0) Point of an Expanding Big City ! Heart and Veins of Chicago ! “L” Rail ! Chicago Architecture After Fire: Fireproofing, Skyscrapers, and the Chicago AEPP 2015 School English Language Institute ! Controlling the Chicago’s Traffic University of Chicago ! Escaping from Chicago’s Cold Winter: The Pedway System ! Native American Arts ! Music Venue and Culture ! Enjoy for free ! Chicago Jazz Festival: Origins ! Jazz in the City ! Stayin’ Alive (Chicago Jazz Festival) ! The Show is Still On ! Global Giant in Financial Derivative Trading ! Derivatives Starting from Here ! 707 Restaurant ! Cafe Next to University Gold Coast ! Learning to Let Go: The Challenge of Rock ! Chicago: A Land Where Almost Anything Climbing Can Be Big ! China Tries to Purchase Confidence in the US Chicago Phenomena ! Farmers Market In Chicago ! The Racial Segregation in Chicago Streeterville ! Chicago on wheels of a Divvy Bike ! One of the Last Survivors of the Great ! The Birth of a New Giant Chicago Fire ! Prosperity of Ethnic Foods! Lakefront Printer’s Row ! Taking the Train of History ! How to Avoid Chicago’s Segregation through Biking Museum Campus ! Cycling in Chicago—Have Fun but Be ! Life as Time Moves On Careful ! White Beach, Black Beach: A View from the River North Lake Front Trail ! Lao Sze Chuan Saves Me! ! Finding Planets Along the Lakeshore ! The Phenomenon of Chicago Climate ! The Whale Sculpture in the Lakeside Exchange (CCX) ! Seashore or Lakeshore ! To Grasp Blues Music Old Town South ! The Church That Survived the Great Chicago Fire Chinatown ! Mixing Flavors in Chicago ! Chinese in Chinatown ! Chinatown — Too Close and Too Far West Loop ! Cultural Development in Chinatown, ! Rights, Riots and Labor: A Tale of Oblivion Chicago ! Wandering Market ! Why Does Cantonese Culture Rule ! Beyond Metropolitan Chicago Chinatown? ! Modernization and the Lost of Tradition ! Subtle Chinese Charms in Chicago! ! The Ever Fading Cultural Identity ! ! ! ! Finding interesting Stuffs in the ! Food Trucks in the University of Chicago Supermarket of Chinatown ! Tools To Be Hygienic ! From “Study, Study, Study” to “Study, Bridgeport Socialize, Sleep” ! The Influence of White Sox to Bridgeport ! Reaching A Great Point ! The Position of Black People in USA ! The Evocative Point through Baseball Field ! The Stealing View ! Creating Community Through Art, Music ! Visiting Tomorrow and Craft Beer ! Legacy of the Fire: The Great Fire’s Influence to the City of Chicago Bronzeville ! Opposite Consciences ! Taste African Culture ! Way of Living Matters Kenwood ! The United Church of Hyde Park ! Parking Legally In Chicago ! Just Books, or Even More ! Bikes in Hyde Park Back of the Yards ! Difficulties as a Foreigner Becoming a Chicagoan: “Get an Electricity Bill on Your Woodlawn Name”, the Challenge. ! Riding with the Community ! Empowering an Underserved Community Garfield Ridge ! A Gap in the Boundary Greater Grand Crossing ! Colored Death Washington Park ! Where Past Connects to Present ! Father of Chicago, Pride in African- Americans ! Being a Positive Minority in U.S. Chicago Phenomena What can We Learn from African American in Politics? ! How to Survive Chicago Winter ! Ins and Outs of “Chicago Dibs” Hyde Park ! Love and Hatred: Toward a Special Neighbor in Hyde Park ! American Coffee Life ! Subway West Humboldt Park ! Mourning for Lost Graffiti Walls West Town ! A Mexican Recipe to Confront Summer Wicker Park Wind ! A Fading History: Vicissitude of the Polish Nation through the Lens of Their Story in Little Italy Chicago ! Chicago’s Second Chance ! Oasis in Chicago Winter Desert ! Save the Culture ! Short Essay on Wicker Park’s Around the ! Italian American Influence in Chicago Coyote ! Finding Your Cheapest Lifestyle ! Wicker Park: Urban Redesign ! Clandestine Chicago United Center ! A Hidden Gem in Milwaukee Avenue ! Sports – the Light of Chicago ! Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan Bucktown ! Michael Jordan’s “Contributions” to the ! The Small Unique Houses in Bucktown Neighborhood Chicago Phenomena Garfield Park ! Retreat from the Chicago Winter ! The Green River ! Curb Your Dog? -- Understanding Douglas Park American Culture from a dog-owner ! More Beer, Less Water perspective Pilsen ! Lost in Pilsen North ! So Much Better than Tacos ! Michoacán in Chicago Lincoln Park ! Still Far from Living the American Dream: ! Influence of Renovation on Cultural Mosaic Mexican People’s Life in Chicago in Lincoln Park ! Art & History in the Streets of a Chicago ! Enjoy Nature in the Vibrant City Neighborhood ! Freeing the Zoo ! The Story of a Beautiful Princess Mixtli ! All Roads Lead to a Lion in the Snow ! Getting Involved in Sports: Transamerica Chicago Triathlon ! Pizza or Pot Pie? Or Both? ! A Guide to Avoid Third Degree Burns in your Mouth Wrigleyville ! Keeping up with Movie Festivals at the Suburbs Music Box Theater ! Baseball Superstar Oak Park ! Alta Vista Terrace District ! 18.2 Miles from Prairie ! Tobacco Shops Sell Tobacco? Bolingbrook Ravenswood ! A Cheap and Easy Way of Moving ! A Step Closer to the Chicago River Logan Square Chicago Phenomena ! A Little Piece of Ecuador in Chicago ! Looking for Furniture? Rogers Park ! Hanging High ! Fighting Food Deserts One Turnip at a Time Multiple Neighborhoods Portage Park ! Masks and Bones ! Reading Between the Lines of a Money Order West Ridge ! Revitalizing Chicago ! IAC—First Stop of Indian and Pakistani Immigrants ! Friendship Over Politics: A Better View from the Ridge, West Ridge ! Harmonious Rivals Abroad Chicago Phenomena ! Tips: Do They Make Sense? ! ! Yutian (Ivy) Cao! ! ! Yutian (Ivy) Cao! The (0,0) Point of an Expanding Big City learned in my undergraduate history class, most of the Midwestern US was surveyed and divided into square mile Left: The origin point in Chicago’s sections of land in the 1800’s. The main roads, which bordered street numbering system the square mile sections of land, were thus constructed a mile Source: apart, running either north-south or east-west. As the vast prairie http://wendycitychica go.com/house-and-st land was developed into a city, those main roads evolved into reet-numbering-in-ch icago-encyclopedia-o today's main streets. Chicago is no exception; its basic street f-chicago-fact-of-the- day/ pattern remains almost the same in the last 200 years. What is exceptional, though, may be Chicago’s well-known Location street numbering system, which is so logical that one can hardly The intersection of State and Madison Streetsthe Loop get lost. Here’s how it works: The epicenter of the Chicago Travel Details (from UChicago) street grid is the intersection of State and Madison Streets in the By CTA: 35 minutes heart of the Loop. The addresses on all east-west streets are By Car: 30 minutes prefixed with the words “east” or “west,” depending on whether they fall east or west of State Street. Similarly, the addresses on Background all north-south streets are prefixed with the words “north” or Unlike messy cities in China, many US cities, especially “south,” depending on whether they fall north or south of those in the Mid-West, have simple street patterns. As what I’ve Madison Street. The address numbers increase or decrease ! ! Yutian (Ivy) Cao! ! ! Yutian (Ivy) Cao! depending on their distance in miles from the State and Madison naming and numbering streets. In 1909, the city decided to fight axis lines. Odd numbers are on the south and east sides of streets, back against the growing menace of local residents continually and even numbers are on the north and west sides of the streets. getting lost and improper mail delivery. To put an end to this There are 800 addresses for each mile of streetscape because epidemic, the City Council passed a completely new and there are typically eight blocks to each mile on the Chicago foolproof address system proposed by a man called Edward street grid. Brennan. For a great fan of orderliness, simplicity, and efficiency as It’s quite interesting that Brennan was just an ordinary myself, the intersection of State and Madison Streets, the origin Chicagoan who suffered from the chaos of the city’s street point (0,0) in Chicago’s street numbering system, just numbering system; he was neither a postal worker nor even an symbolizes Chicagoans’ wisdom in city planning. urban planner. Brennan wasn’t the first person to recognize the problem, but he was certainly the most persistent at arguing for a Broader Issues solution. Changing the street names was never simple or Chicago’s current street numbering system was adopted in uncontroversial, for many people saw it as meddling with the 1909. There is a massive shift in how the city handles street historic nature of their streets. However, Brennan was names and addresses. Chicago was booming in the late 19th determined to go forward with the can-do spirit that built the century, gobbling up neighboring towns and annexing them as World’s Fair. Today, Brennan's got an honorary street named new neighborhoods of the city. Every town that folded into after him at the intersection of State and Madison Streets, the Chicago, from Lake View to Hyde Park, had its own system for city's (0,0) point. Every time Chicagoans navigate the 227 ! ! ! Yutian (Ivy) Cao! ! Fengshuo!Zhang! square miles of their