Chicago is home to some of the worlds most famous people, places and

inventions!
Famous Chicagoans
Hillary Rodham Clinton is the 1st First Lady elected to the U.S. Senate. Clinton was
born in Chicago, but currently represents the state of New York.
Walt Disney, creator of the cartoon character Mickey Mouse, was born in Chicago on
December 5, 1901.
Harrison Ford, popular actor and also People Magazine's 1998 "Sexiest Man Alive," is
a native Chicagoan.
Jane Addams, founder of the Hull House to aid immigrants, and first American
woman
to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
Other famous Chicagoans: John Cusack, actor, John Mahoney, actor, Dorothy Hamill,
figure skater, Quincy Jones, musician, Pat Sajak, Game-show host, Daniel Burnham,
architect, Benny Goodman, musician
Did You Know?
The world's longest street is Chicago's Western Avenue.
The Chicago Post Office at 433 W. Van Buren is the only postal facility in the world
which you can drive a car through.
The term "Jazz" was coined in Chicago in 1914. The city's native musicians included
band leader Benny Goodman and drummer Gene Krupa.
Chicago is home to the Lincoln Park Zoo, which is one of the last free zoos.
Chicago is the favorite road city for big-league baseball players, according to Sports
Illustrated magazine's 2003 Player Survey.
Chicago is home to the Harold Washington Library, the world's largest public library.
Hugh Hefner started the publication of "Playboy" at 6052 S. Harper St. in Chicago in
1953.
R.S. Ownes, a Chicago firm, is the maunfacturer of the Oscar statue.
Chicago made a $110-million investment to move an eight-lane freeway to create a
"Museum Campus" connecting three world-class museums - the Field Museum of
Natural History, the Adler Planetarium, and the John G. Shedd Aquarium and
Oceanarium.
First Time for Everything
The Adler Planetarium in Chicago was the first planetarium in the Western
Hemisphere.
Chicago is the birthplace of air travel. The first commercial air passenger (a Chicago
Herald-Examinaer female reporter) departed Chicago for San Francisco on July 2,
1927.
The University of Chicago became the site of the world's first atomic reaction.
The first Ferris wheel made its debut in 1893 at the World's Columbian Exposition in
Chicago.
In 1994, the first game and the opening ceremonies of the first World Cup Soccer
championship ever to be hosted in the U.S. were held in Chicago.
Other Chicago Firsts and Inventions:

Steel frame skyscraper, softball, elevated railway, zipper, daytime TV soap operas,
McDonald's restaurant, electric iron and cooking range, grain reaper, reactor to
produce
electricity from atomic energy, bifocal contact lens, winding watch, and the Twinkie.
Food Tidbits
Nabisco, the world's largest cookie and cracker factory, is located in Chicago (7300
S.
Kedzie Avenue).
The world's largest ice cream cone factory, Keebler, is also located in Chicago
(10839 S.
Langley Avenue).
The Taste of Chicago is the world's largest free outdoor food festival. It attracted
over 3.5 million people in 2003.
Famous Buildings
The first of Marshall Field's Clocks was installed at the corner of Washington and
State
Streets on November 26, 1897. The cast bronze clock rests some 17.5 feet above
the
sidewalk and weighs a hefty 7.75 tons.
Tribune Tower, home of the Chicago Tribune newspaper, has exterior walls that are
embedded with authentic pieces of famous buildings including Westminster Abbey,
the
Alamo, Hamlet's castle, the Great Pyramid, the Taj Mahal, Fort Sumter and the Arc
de
Triomphe.
Under instructions from William Wrigley, architects designed the Wrigley Building to
look like a "luscious birthday cake." It also became the first air-conditioned office
building in 1946.
Chicago's McCormick Place has the largest amount of exhibit space of any
convention
center in the country at 2.2 million square feet.
Larger Than Life
The William Wrigley, Jr. Company is the world's largest gum manufacturer,
producing
more than 20 million packages a day.
In 1997 The Field Museum purchased Sue, the largest, most complete and best
preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex ever discovered.
The Wild Reef Exhibit at the John G. Shedd Aquarium is one of the largest and most
diverse shark habitats in North America. The aquarium is the largest indoor
aquarium in
the world.
The Art Institute of Chicago holds the largest collections of Impressionist paintings
in
the world outside of the Louvre in Paris.
The largest Latino cultural institution in the nation is Chicago's Mexican Fine Arts
Center Museum.
Dairy Fun Facts and Trivia
The average cow produces enough milk each day to fill six one-gallon jugs, about 55
pounds of milk.
It takes more than 21 pounds of whole milk to make one pound of butter.
The fastest growing variety of cheese produced in the U.S. is Hispanic-style soft
cheese.

All 50 states in the United States have dairy farms.

The natural yellow color of butter comes mainly from the beta-carotene found in the
grass cows eat.
A typical dairy cow weighs 1400 pounds and consumes about 50 pounds of dry
matter
each day.
Cheddar cheese is the most popular natural cheese in the U.S.
It takes 12 pounds of whole milk to make one gallon of ice cream.
The average cow drinks from 30-50 gallons of water each day about a bathtubs
worth.
Large ice cream producing states include California, Indiana, Texas, Pennsylvania,
Illinois, and Minnesota.
Super Bowl Sunday rates as the number one day for pizza consumption.
Cows have an acute sense of smell, and can smell something up to six miles away.
It takes more cows to produce milk annually for Pizza Hut cheese (about 170,000)
than
there are people living in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
The average buyer purchases cheese 15 times at retail each year.
McDonalds uses approximately four million gallons of low-fat vanilla yogurt each
year in
its Fruit n Yogurt Parfait.
Vanilla is Americas favorite ice cream flavor.
Tank trucks for transporting fluid mild were first introduced in 1914.
Each person in America eats an average of 46 slices of pizza a year.
More ice cream is sold on Sunday than on any other day of the week.
Plastic milk bottles were first introduced in the United States in 1967.
More than 1000 new dairy products are introduced every year.
A cow has four stomachs and 32 teeth.
About 300 varieties of cheese are sold in the U.S.