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Chicago- Top Tourist Spots-Local Hot Spots

John ROHAN
New Orleans- What to See
Kelly SMITH
Bologna- Top six Tourist Spots
Diane STARK

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hicago is the third most popular city in the United

States, after New York City and Los Angeles. Chicago was
incorporated as a city in 1837 and now has 2.7 million
residents. today the city is an international hub for finance,
commerce, industry, technology, and telecommunications.
shoreline of Lake Michigan. It is located in the Streeterville
neighborhood of the Near North Side community area. It was
a part of the Plan of Chicago developed by architect

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New Orleans
What to See

ew Orleans is the largest city in the

state of Louisiana.
The City is named after the Duke of New
Orleans, the city is well known for its
French and Spanish creole architecture.
New Orleans is also popular for its:
music, cuisine, festivals, & celebrations.

The French Quarter, also

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known as the Vieux Carr, is the oldest

neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. After New Orleans was founded
in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de
Bienville, the city developed a central
square. The district is more commonly called the French Quarter today, or
simply The Quarter, related to changes
in the city with American immigration
after the Louisiana Purchase. Most of
the present-day historic buildings were
constructed during the late 18th century,
during the citys period of Spanish rule,
and reflect Spanish colonial architecture.
The district as a whole has been designated as a National Historic Landmark,
with numerous contributing buildings
that are separately deemed significant.
It is a prime tourist destination in the
city, as well as attracting loyal residents.
Because of its distance from areas where the levee was breached during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it suffered relatively
light damage as compared to other areas of the city and the greater region.

City Park, a 1,300 acre public park in New Orleans, Louisiana, is the 6th-largest and 7th-most-visited urban public
park in the United States. City Park is approximately 50% larger than Central Park in New York City, the municipal park
recognized by Americans nationwide as the archetypal urban greenspace. Although it is an urban park whose land is
owned by the City of New Orleans, it is administered by the City Park Improvement Association, an arm of state government, not by the New Orleans Parks and Parkways Department. City Park is very unusual in that it is a largely self-supporting public park, with most of its annual budget derived from self-generated revenue through user fees and donations. In the wake of the enormous damage inflicted upon the park due to Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana Department
of Culture, Recreation and Tourism began to partially subsidize the parks operations.
City Park holds the worlds largest collection of mature live oak trees, some older than 600 years in age. Its founding in
1853 also makes it one of the oldest parks in the country.
Bourbon Street comes alive at night, particularly during the French Quarters many festivals. Most popular among
these is the annual Mardi Gras celebration, when Bourbon Street teems with hundreds of thousands of tourists. Local
open container laws in the French Quarter allow drinking alcoholic beverages in the street. Popular drinks include the
hurricane cocktail, resurrection cocktail and Huge Ass Beers - a large plastic cup of draft beer marketed to tourists at

a low price.

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Bourbon Street is Upper Bourbon Street, an

eight-block section of popular tourist attractions.
Among the tourist attractions are bars, restaurants,
souvenir shops and strip clubs. There are also a
number of gay bars. Most bars are located in the
central section of Bourbon Street. Popular bars include
Pat OBriens, Johnny Whites, The Famous Door,
Spirits on Bourbon, Razzoo and The Cats Meow.Marie
Laveaus House of Voodoo is located on the corner of
St Ann.
Bourbon Street (French: Rue des Bourbon) is a street
in the heart of New Orleans oldest neighborhood, the
French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. It extends
13 blocks from Canal Street to Esplanade Avenue.
While it is now primarily known for its bars and strip
clubs, Bourbon Streets history provides a rich insight
into New Orleans past.

Bourban Street is a street in the heart

of New Orleans oldest neighboorhood,
the French Quarter in New Orleans,
Louisiana - Kelly Smith
Arguably the most popular restaurant on Bourbon
Street is Galatoires. However, Jean Laffites Blacksmith
Shop and The Old Absinthe House are also popular.
The upper end of Bourbon Street near Canal Street
is home to many of the French Quarters strip clubs.
These include Ricks Cabaret, Temptations, and Larry
Flynts Barely Legal Club.
The section of Bourbon Street from the intersection
of St. Ann Street caters to New Orleans thriving gay
community, featuring such clubs as New Orleans
largest gay nightclub, The Bourbon Pub, and Oz.

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Previous Picture:
Strret corner shot
of the French
Quarter.
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Tourist
Spots in
Bologna

By: Diane Stark

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Neptune
Fountain is a
great place to
sit around and
enjoy its natural
beauty.
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Bologna is famous for its towers and

legnthy porticoes, Bologna has a wellpreserved historial centre.
If you go to Bologna, there are several interesting
sights can be the beginning of your holiday
destination. Bologna is located in the region of
Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, is a strategic
location for tourists in Italy.

1. Piazza Maggiore

Piazza Maggiore is a square in the city of

Bologna. Piazza Maggiore as one of major
bologna tourist attractions was founded in 1200.
This is one of the best squares throughout Italy.
The square is surrounded by the Palazzo dei
Notai, Palazzo dAccursio, Palazzo del Podesta
and the Basilica of San Petronio in the heart of
the city.

2. National Gallery of Art

National Art Gallery in Bologna has the

largest art collections in the city. The museum
is concentrated on Italian art made by artists
from Bologna and the surrounding region in
Italy. This museum offers a wide collection of
Emilian painting of the 13th century until the
18th century. Some well-known painter whose
work here is Giotto, Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto,

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The Piazza Maggior
was founded in
1200 and is one of
the main tourist
attractions in
Bologna.
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ologna is the largest city and the capitalof

Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy, located in the
heart of a metropolitan area.The first settlements date back to at least 1000 BC. The city
has been an urban centre, first under the Etruscans (Velzna/Felsina) and the Celts (Bona),
then under the Romans (Bononia), then again
in the Middle Ages, as a free municipality (for
one century it was the fifth largest European
city based on population). Home to the oldest
university in the world, University of Bologna,
founded in 1088, Bologna hosts thousands of
students who enrich the social and cultural life
of the city. Famous for its towers and lengthy
porticoes, Bologna has a well-preserved historical centre (one of the largest in Italy) thanks
to a careful restoration and conservation policy
which began at the end of the 1970s, on the
heels of serious damage done
by the urban demolition at the end of the 19th
century as well as that caused by wars.

3. Neptune fountain

Neptune fountain located in the old city center

of Bologna and in addition to being a major
tourist attraction in Bologna, Italy. Besides
enjoying the fountain you can also sit around
drinking coffee in one of the cafes nearby. This
fountain has become a permanent feature of
Bologna since the mid-16th century. Four
cherubim and the sirens are located in four
directions around a bronze statue of Neptune,
representing the four corners of the earth.

4. Museum of Archaeology

Archaeological Museum of Bologna is located in

the heart of the Palazzo Galvani, Pazza Maggiore
and close to the Church of San Petronio. The
building is from the 15th century. This museum
has a fairly extensive collection of artifacts
that were excavated around the bologna and
Emilia-Romagna region in Italy. Here you can
see a collection of artifacts There is a very good
collection of Etruscan civilization, the ancient
Romans.

5. Basilica of St. Petronio

The
Basilica is
the fifth
largest
basilca
in the
world.

Basilica of St. Petronio is one of the oldest

and most magnificent building in Bologna.
The basilica was originally built in 1390 and
continued until the 1600s and is the fifth largest
basilica in the world. When first built, the
basilica in Bologna was intended to have a larger
building of which you can view at this time, but
later the Pope issued a decree ordering that the
size of the building should be minimized so as
not to overshadow the basilica in the Vatican.

6. Morandi Museum

Morandi Museum is dedicated to the works

of Italian artists of the 20th century, Giorgio
Morandi. In this museum, you can see more
than 200 paintings, drawings and sketches of
the Bolognese painter G. Morandi (1890-1964),
mainly donated by his family. Studio at the
museum also has been reconstructed with an
extensive library.

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In Chicago
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Left: The Bean
serves as a number
one toursit
attraction in all
of downtown
Chicago.
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Navy Pier is a 3,300-foot long pier on the Chicago

and city planner Daniel Burnham and his associates.
As Municipal Pier #2, Navy Pier was planned and
built to serve as a mixed-purpose piece of public
infrastructure. Its primary purpose was as a cargo
facility for lake freighters, and warehouses were
built up and down the Pier. However, the Pier
was also designed to provide docking space
for passenger excursion steamers, and in
the preair condit its outermost tip, were
designed to serve as cool places for public
gathering and entertainment. Today, Navy Pier is
Chicagos number one tourist attraction.

Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G.

Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in

Chicago, Illinois in the United States that opened on May 30,
1930. The aquarium contains over 25,000 fish, and was for some time
the largest indoor aquarium in the world with 5,000,000 US gallons of
water. Shedd Aquarium was the first inland aquarium with a permanent
saltwater fish collection. It is surrounded by Museum Campus Chicago,
which it shares with the Adler Planetarium and the Field Museum of
Natural History.

Lake Michigan. It operates from April to

October, with regular water shows and evening
color-light shows. During the winter, the
fountain is decorated with festival lights.
The fountain is considered Chicagos front
door, since it resides in Grant Park, the citys
front yard near the intersection of Columbus
Drive and Congress Parkway. The fountain
itself represents Lake Michigan, with each
sea horse symbolizing the states of Illinois,
Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana, that border

The aquarium has 2 million annual visitors; it was

the most visited aquarium in the U.S. in 2005, and
in 2007, it surpassed the Field Museum as the most
popular cultural attraction in Chicago

The aquarium has 2 million annual visitors; it was the most visited
aquarium in the U.S. in 2005, and in 2007, it surpassed the Field
Museum as the most popular cultural attraction in Chicago. It contains
1500 species including fish, marine mammals, birds, snakes, amphibians,
and insects. The aquarium received awards for best exhibit from the
Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) for Seahorse Symphony in
1999, Amazon Rising in 2001, and Wild Reef in 200.

Buckingham Fountain is a Chicago landmark in the center

of Grant Park. Dedicated in 1927, it is one of the largest fountains in the
world. Built in a rococo wedding cake style and inspired by the Latona
Fountain at the Palace of Versailles, it is meant to allegorically represent
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The Bean is a public sculpture by Indianborn British artist Anish Kapoor, that is the
centerpiece of AT&T Plaza at Millennium
Park in the Loop community area of Chicago,
Illinois.
The sculpture and AT&T Plaza are located
on top of Park Grill, between the Chase
Promenade and McCormick Tribune Plaza &
Ice Rink. Constructed between 2004 and 2006,
________________ the sculpture is made up of 168 stainless steel
Bottom: The Blue
plates welded together, and its highly polished
Lane Trigger fish
exterior has no visible seams. It measures 33
available to see at
by 66 by 42 feet (10 by 20 by 13 m), and weighs
the Shed Aquarium. 110 short tons.

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Above: Buckingham
Fountain serves as a
Chicago landmark
located in the
middle of Grant
Park.
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Said to have been inspired by liquid mercury,

the sculptures surface reflects and distorts the
citys skyline. Visitors are able to walk around
and under Cloud Gates 12-foot high arch.
On the underside is the omphalos a concave
chamber that warps and multiplies reflections.
The sculpture builds upon many of Kapoors
artistic themes, and is popular with tourists
as a photo-taking opportunity for its unique
reflective properties.

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