This document provides a brief history of Chicago in 3 sentences. It describes Chicago as the hog butcher for the world and player with railroads, known for its big shoulders from a Carl Sandburg poem. The document then lists many notable events and figures in Chicago's history such as the 1968 Democratic Convention, the Great Chicago Fire, and famous Chicagoans like Barack Obama and Hugh Hefner. It concludes by mentioning Chicago as a finalist to host the 2016 Olympics and references the city today.

1. Hog Butcher For The World

2. Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat

3. Player with Railroads

4. Stormy, Husky, brawling

5. City of the Big Shoulders

6. Carl Sandburg, Poet

7. Chicago

8. Downtown Chicago
Winter 2006

9. Crossroads of America

10. 1st Nuclear Chain
Reaction

11. 1968 Democratic Convention

12. Democratic Convention Part Duex

13. 1968 Democratic Convention

14. National Guard Invades Chicago

15. “68” Convention

16. Map of Great Lakes, 1673, L. Joliet
First European Map of Mississippi Valley

17. Father Marquette, 1671

18. Shikaakwa = wild onion = Chicago

19. Hernando DeSoto

20. Desoto’s Illinois Trail, 1531

21. Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable of Haiti,
1st Settler in region

22. Worlds First Skyscraper, Home
Insurance Building 1883

23. America’s 1st Comprehensive
Sewer System

24. 2 Mile Tunnels under the lake

25. Water intake “cribs”

26. Reversed the flow of a river!?

27. Jane Addams & Hull House

28. Great Chicago Fire

29. Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow

30. Famous Chicagoans
• Barack Obama
• Hillary Clinton
• Lou Rawls
• Hugh Hefner
• Walt Disney
• Harrison Ford
• Mr. T

31. Finalist 2016 Olympics

32. Chicago Today

33. Chicago Today

34. Chicago Today

35. Chicago Today