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Famous Things from Chicago?
list things that Chicago/ Illinois is famous for.
or People that came from chicago.
I'm trying to prove to my friend from Minnesota why we're better!
6 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Michael Jordan and the bulls.
Sammy sosa and the cubs
Oprah, Peter Cetera, Sam cooke, quincy jones, Harrison Ford, John Cusack, Hugh Hefner,
Sears towers, Lake Michigan.
*Chicago was named the best sports city in the United States by The Sporting News in 2006
*Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, which was chosen in April, 2007, as the United States bid for those games.
- SugrNspyce4 :)Lv 61 decade ago
Famous people from Chicago: Gillian Anderson, Jack Benny, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Walt Disney, Harrison Ford, Benny Goodman, Dorothy Hamill, Quincy Jones, Bob Newhart, Melvin Van Peebles, Raquel Welch, Gwendolyn Brooks, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Shel Silvertstein, Robin Williams, John Cusack, Pat Sajak, etc.
Other cool Chicago stuff: The 2005 World Series Champs Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bulls (6-time NBA champs), The Sears Tower, Buckingham Fountain, the filming location of "Batman Begins" and its sequel (currently filming on Canal St.), dying the Chicago River green on St. Patrick's Day, The Taste of Chicago, Chicago style pizza, the world's longest street (Western Ave.), the term "jazz" was coined in Chicago, Chicago's Harold Washington Library is the world's largest public library, Adler Planetarium was the first in the Western hemisphere, the Ferris wheel debuted in Chicago, etc.
Source(s): http://www.50states.com/bio/illinois.htm http://www.thingstodo.com/states/IL/famous_people.... http://www.choosechicago.com/media/facts.html ...and a fellow Chicagoan. :) - How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- 1 decade ago
sears tower, lake michigan, chicago white sox (no..not cubs), lots of famous museums, michael jordan, and great pizza
- cocojoLv 61 decade ago
lake michigan
chicago cubs
the father dowling mysteries
american mafia movies are filmed there
Source(s): i do live in england u.k.
