“Chicago is not the Second City,” says Rachael Cain, owner and president of Trax Records. “The industry is vibrant with a plethora of genres. Chicago is the original home of house music, mother to commercial EDM. A promising recent development is the amount of free cultural events present...
While urban life is a foundational concept in the history of thought and politics in and beyond the city, it is rarely itself taken as a central focus of engagement. Yet the changing composition of urban life, and the different ways in which we might understand and express it, point to ce...
Shape Of Taste: Photos show square Detroit pizza, top, and a Chicago-style round deep-dish pizza. City also has rectangular Sicilian pies, New York circular shape; plus, oblong New Haven pies. The Mile High City’s pizza popularity isn’t due to Denver’s Italian community. Less than 5%...
3. Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $325 received from a preschool family fundraiser to the Grant Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account. The funds will be used to purchase enrichment supplies for the classroom. (CM...
The fact that Quando Quango's bass lines were picked up by black Chicago house musicians in the mid-1980s and then recycled back to Manchester on the dancefloor of the Hacienda is one example of mobile city cultures. Another explanation for Manchester music's sustainability is, though, the ...
When I looked at the invitation from OfficeMax for a store opening, I had to admit wondering what was going to be so different about this occasion versus several hundreds that preceded it. But what I learned from the unveiling of the first OfficeMax Business Solutions Center in the Chicagola...
The Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) connects the Idaho Panhandle with Seattle, Portland, and Spokane to the west, and Minneapolis and Chicago to the east. The BNSF travels through Kootenai, Bonner, and Boundary counties. The Union Pacific Railroad crosses North Idaho, entering from Canada ...
It lies on the western shore of San Francisco Bay, at the mouth of Redwood Creek, 25 miles (40 km) south of San Francisco. Originally inhabited by Ohlone Indians, the area in 1800 became part of a Spanish land grant called Rancho de las Pulgas (Spanish: “Ranch of the Fleas”). It...
Clay sent Young to Chicago, where local Copperheads, the Sons of Liberty, plotted to seize the city during the 1864 Democratic National Convention while Young led a mass escape of prisoners from Camp Douglas. The conspiracy was betrayed and Young barely escaped. He then went to Columbus, Ohio...
Understanding the spatial distribution characteristics and formation mechanism of urban facilities (city functional components) constitutes the basis of urban layout optimization. Currently, research on the overall distribution of the various types of ci