Seeing the City through the Eyes of Our International Students ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE AEPP 2016 UChicagoGRAD Table of Contents alphabetically arranged by student’s last name Student - Title of Article - Page Number A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z Tito Sulistiyo Adikusumo - Join the Ninth Planet Hunt - 1 Juan Manuel Poggio Aguerre - Introduction to Chicago-Style Pizza - 4 Juliana Aguilar Restrepo - Reuse and…Gentrify? - 6 Pedro Armengol - National Museum of Mexican Art: The Museum of “Los Chicanos” - 8 Mohammad Ahmad Awais - Consumer Culture in Chicago - 10 ------------------ Jongyoon Baik - Metra, The Most Old-Fashioned Thing in This High-Fashioned City - 12 Germán Villegas Bauer - Efficient Reallocation - 15 Cinta Benet - Pullman: Following the Traces of Social Movements - 17 Daniela Bergmann - Entertainment for Millennia! - 19 Ran Bi - Tracing Patti Smith’s Childhood in Logan Square - 22 Amine Bouhayat - Chicago Fire Soccer Team - 25 ------------------ Mayra Alejandra Cabrera Matlalcuatzi - A Window to Pilsen: 5 Rabanitos - 27 Camila Carrasco - Converted into a Chicago Blues Fan - 30 Andres Celis - Big River, Small Museum, Bigger Citizens - 32 You-Lin Chen - Change Starts from Minor Thing - 34 Chih-Yu Chiang - A Better Integration with Local Community—Northwestern vs UChicago - 36 HyungJin Cho - Mind the Gap - 39 Yeongsu Cho - “Nitrogen Snacks” from Amazon - 42 Ratchanon Chotiputsilp - Health Insurance: Can it be More Complicated? - 44 ------------------ Himanshu Dave - Beware of Guns! - 47 Lucía Delgado - A Bike for the Summer - 49 Xiaoan Ding - A Nation of Immigrants - 51 Nhat Do - Riverwalk in Chicago - 53 ------------------ Gerardo Egana - The “Explanatory” Point - 56 ------------------ Charline Fournier-Petit - The Untouchable Jazz Club - 58 Yuxin Fu - Modern David - 60 ------------------ Xiaoyu Gao - Ravinia Festival: Enjoy the Oldest Outdoor Music Festival in North America with Huge Student Discounts - 62 Eduardo García Bejos - New in Town and Need a Car? - 64 Gustavo Gil Ramos - Rockefeller Chapel: Lessons of Gender Equality to a Non-Religious Person - 65 Christian Gomez - Of Old Towns, Great Fires and Media with Dubious Ethics - 67 Sunqing Gu - Chicago Kids and Kites Festival - 70 ----------------- Wenliang Han - Elijah Muhammad’s House and Community - 73 Xue Han - God is Calling Me! - 75 Yiran Hao - Why Does Chicago Go One-Way? - 77 Yantao He - Make Americans Patriotic Again, in a Cool Way - 79 Yitao He - Umm…It’s Nothing, Sir! - 81 Shoichi Hikami - Three Places I Recommend to Run Close to Loop - 83 Yang Hou - To Give or Not to Give - 86 Jingxiong Hu - Rainbow PUSH - 88 Agustín M. Hurtado - Cobb’s English Gothic Legacy - 90 ---------------- Wanlin Ji - Get Close to Nature in Chicago - 92 Renata Marinoni Jonczyk - The NFL Gives Chicago Hundreds of Yards - 95 Changwook Ju - Become Somebody - Move the Needle - 97 Isabel Arantes Diniz Junqueira - Finding Brazilian Traces through the Streets of Chicago - 99 Thiago Braga Junqueira - Escaping from First Impressions: Chicago’s Streets - 103 ------------------ Zeynep Kahveci - The Midway - 106 Naoko Kawabata - Divvying Up Fund and Healthy Life in Chicago - 109 Joohee Kim - Mokdong, Dorchester and Gates - 111 Siyoung Kim - The Great Books Program - 113 Akihiro Kondo - Rowing in Chicago River - 115 Jia Kong - Imaginary Town - 117 Debsouri Kundu - Pursuit of American Dream: U.S. Born vs. an Immigrant - 119 ------------------ Anran Li - Chicago Symphony Center: Dying Classical Music in a Thriving Modern City? - 121 Chenghan Li - Buses in China and in the US - 124 Chi Li - Connection Between Strangers - 126 Guoying Li - Drinking is Illegal for Anyone Under 21 - 128 Hua Li - Morality and Religion in Chicago - 130 Jinyang Li - Frequent Fire Alarms, But No Fire - 133 Renhe Li - Cooking Chinese Food in Hyde Park - 136 Zhefu Li - “No Firearms Allowed on This Property” - 139 Xi Liang - Uber Experience in Chicago - 141 Pedro Liedo Orozco - Buying a Bike in Hyde Park - 143 Weinan Lin - Squirrels - 145 Wen-Ting Lin - Harper Theatre: The Film Distributor of Hyde Park - 147 Vlad Lisnyak - City by the Lake - 150 Chang Liu - How to get your Coupon? - 152 Chang Liu - Chicago Pizza & Oven Grinder Co. - 155 Chunwei Liu - The Blue Sky in Chicago - 157 Jiachen Liu - Strange American-Chinese Cuisine - 159 Yijun Liu - Is Here Really the “Land of Opportunity”? - 161 Yifan Lou - A City Designed for People with Disabilities - 163 ------------------ Alexandro Maya - Hopper’s Hope - 166 Takuji Miyagi - “Coldness” in Summer - 168 Takanori Miyazato - World's Columbian Exposition: The Bright and Dark Sides and What Remains Today - 170 ------------------ Sen Na - Multicolor Beliefs - 173 Muhammad Umer Naeem - Adjusting to Life in Chicago: A Muslim’s Perspective - 175 Vishnu Nair - The Neighborhood of Kenwood: A Ray of Hope - 178 ------------------ Takashi Ono - Are They Stealing the View? - 181 Guillermo Ortiz - And Humour Shall Set You Free - 184 Rodrigo Valdes Ortiz - Which is My Race? - 187 Bruno Osorio - Deep-Dish Pizza in Chicago - 190 Takuya Otani - Where to get Japanese Ingredients in Hyde Park - 192 ------------------ Mingen Pan - The Identity of Chicago: Classic and Contemporary - 197 Lina Pedraza - Has Jazz Been Whitewashed? - 200 Oliver M. Peña - Opera in Chicago: The Twilight or Renaissance of Fine Arts? - 203 Aleksander Prominski - Wind in Our Sail - 206 ------------------ Tian Qiu - Honorary Street: Streets’ Other Name - 208 Claudia Quintero - Public Beaches - 211 Jorge Quintero - About the No-Gun Sign - 213 ------------------ Tamiur Reza - Atom Piece or Atom Peace? - 215 ------------------ Flavia Sacco - Rocking the Boat: Security Matters - 220 Toru Sakurai - American Pastime - 223 Evelyn Sanchez - Looking for Art? Start Walking! - 226 Andre Santa Rita - Pushing Back the Frontiers of Economics and Public Policies - 229 Francisca Sara-Zaror - Downtown Chicago: No Arts, No Parks - 232 João André Sarolli - Saúde!!!! - 234 Yifan Shao - Where People Buy Fresh Vegetables - 236 Kejian Shi - Sunset Café: The Historical Witness of Bronzeville - 238 Yang Song - Beautiful Architecture in Chicago - 241 Hiroaki Sugiyama - Windy City Wine Festival - 243 Kamolnich Swasdiphanich - Hidden Under the Expressway - 245 ------------------ Shinya Takatani - Hack your Chicago Life with Essential Mobile Apps! - 248 Zihan Tan - What is Dead May Never Die - 252 Apoorv Tandon - Farmers Market in Oak Park - 255 Chengzuo Tang - Staring at Chicago, Staring at Modernity - 257 Odyseas Theofanis - Chicago's Grace: Thalia Hall - 260 Daniela Melisa Gómez Treviño - Almost Like Home - 262 ------------------ Magaly Duarte Urquhart - Conserving Spiritual Life in the City of Chicago - 264 Isidoro García Urquieta - Air and Water Show - 266 ------------------ Fernando Castillo Villalpando - Where Air and Water Merge - 268 Gerardo Viollier - Let’s Meet Under the Clock at Marshall Fields - 271 ------------------- Hao Wang - The Day of God - 273 Jiayi Wang - Is Lincoln Park Zoo a Public Space? - 275 Manyi Wang - To Embrace a Deep Dish Feast on Chicago’s Windy Streets - 277 Mingyue Wang - Break the Rule or Become Rude - 279 Qi Wang - Falling into a Japanese Wonderland - 282 Shun Wang - Boystown-Chicago’s Pride Zone - 284 Yunzhi Wang - CTA Obesity Accessibility Helpful or Not - 286 Patricia Wee - The Hull-House & Jane Addams: A Reminder for Gratitude - 288 Jieqiong Wei - Shooting Trouble Instead of Guns - 290 Bo Wu - Palace of Basketball - 292 Longcan Wu - Private Share or Group Talk - 294 Siyu Wu - Open House Chicago: Annual Architecture Festival - 296 ------------------ Jiaze Xie - City in a Garden—Lincoln Park - 298 Weijie Xin - Enjoy Chicago’s Skyline - 301 ----------------- Yosuke Yamashita - A Different World 32-miles Away - 304 Masayuki Yanagi - Trouble Shooting – Clogged Toilet and Divvy – - 306 Anqi Yang - Chicago Lakefront Trail - 308 Di Yang - The Chicago (2002): A Glance at the Press in Chicago - 310 Han Yang - Chicago Chinatown: Past and Future - 312 Junwen Yang - Fantastic Food Trucks at UChicago - 314 Mei Yang - The Divvy Bike System - 316 Yuki Yasarani - Andy’s Jazz Club: Warming up Your Heart in the Windy City of Chicago - 318 Wenyao Ye - Discovering Michigan Avenue - 320 Heng Yi - Public Transit in Chicago - 322 Gizem Yilmaz - Enjoying Lake Michigan - 324 Fangjie Yin - Oriental Exhibition in UChicago - 326 Yawen Yu - Jaw-dropping: Murals in Chicago - 329 ------------------ Hao Zeng - UCPD: Be Smart or Be Right? - 331 Andong Zhang - How to Choose a Suitable Mattress - 333 Jing Zhang - Chicago Architecture after the Great Fire - 335 Liang Zhang - Seeking for “the Sound of Chicago” - 337 Lingfei Zhang - The Art Institute of Chicago - 339 Lingxiao Zhang - Logan Square: A Good Place to Start Exploring Chicago - 342 Shuang Zhang - Ways to Enjoy Chicago Air & Water Show - 344 Xinxin Zhang - The Baha’i House of Worship - 346 Xinyuan Zhang - Barack Obama’s Footprints in Chicago - 349 Yalin Zhang - Diversity and Segregation in Uptown - 351 Youlun Zhao - Give the Lady What She Wants: Explore Herstory within the Chicago History Museum - 354 Yinyuan Zheng - Lakefront in Kenwood, a Symbiosis between Modernization and Nature - 357 Mengting Zhou - What it Takes to Make a Melting Pot - 360 Yichen Zhou - Nurturing the Communities - 362 Minjia Zhu - “You are Beautiful” - 365 Chen Zou - Overdose - 367 1 Tito Sulistiyo Adikusumo Indonesia Harris School of Public Policy Join the Ninth Planet Hunt Photo by Adler Planetarium Background: I still remember the day that