Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Chicago

Chicago, the third largest city in the U.S., challenges the sky with its enormous steel megaliths. It's evening rush hour, and traffic is thick. A mosaic of automobiles cram the streets.
Amber sunlight glints off an office building to the left, and Lake Michigan stretches endlessly towards the horizon on the right.
People are jogging, cycling, or dog-walking, everywhere you look; the people are just as diverse as the cars. Black, white, Asian, Hispanic, young, old, all in Chicago. A woman walks by speaking Russian to another woman; an Ethiopian restaurant borders with a McDonald's.
In the Land of Lincoln, Chicago is the realization of the 16th president's dream of equality and harmonious cooperation.