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- Darrelc, on 03/17/2008, -3/+208That is a freaking awesome photo, helps me (non american) to understand what the 'Block' system is actually like.
- TheGonzo, on 08/13/2008, -5/+187I live riiiiiiight ......there...
- jrobh, on 03/17/2008, -1/+178did you just shove a push-pin into your monitor?
- UltraMegaFilms, on 03/17/2008, -5/+123Thats the last thing I see before I have to ***** land in Milwaukee. *****.
- shadowblade989, on 03/17/2008, -1/+116I wish I could get good pictures out of a plane window.
- inactive, on 03/17/2008, -7/+93*****. i live in chicago and the only thing i ever get to see is homeless people
- pianomahnn, on 03/17/2008, -6/+85That's actually considered a "grid" system. Blocks are more the unit of measurement. ;-)
- juniorb, on 03/17/2008, -4/+58That's my kind of town.
- db0255, on 03/17/2008, -7/+60looks like....chicago.
- wiggles, on 03/17/2008, -2/+46Trivia: Chicago is called 'The Windy City' not because of the amount of wind it sees, but because of its long winded politicians.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_Chicago_called_th ...
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In 1990, Chicago ranked twenty-first in the list of 68 windy cities, with an average wind speed of 10.3 miles (16.6 kilometers) per hour. Cheyenne, Wyoming, with an average wind speed of 12.9 miles ( 20.8 kilometers) per hour, ranks number one. It is closely followed by Great Falls, Montana, which has an average wind speed of 12.8 miles (20.6 kilometers) per hour.
The highest surface wind speed ever recorded was on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, at an elevation of 6,288 feet (1.9 kilometers). On April 12, 1934, its wind was 231 miles (371.7 kilometers) per hour and its average wind speed was 35 miles (56.3 kilometers) per hour.
Sources: Krantz, Les. The Best and Worst of Everything, pp. 102-3; Williams, Jack. The Weather Book, p. 43. - cha5e, on 03/17/2008, -0/+36Seriously. That's way better than my version:
http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/4383/chicagoyb2 ... - anillop, on 03/17/2008, -1/+35Its ok it is only going to be another decade or so before Milwaukee is part of the Chicago Metro area anyway.
- allengeer, on 03/17/2008, -1/+33"If that's Milwaukee's best, I'd hate to taste millwaukee's worst."
- Soulbow2, on 03/17/2008, -1/+30Here is your picture edited with Photoshop- in about 5 min.
http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?image=chicagoyb ... - techweenie1, on 03/17/2008, -0/+28indeed, I love the grid system.
- ImpulseControl, on 03/17/2008, -1/+28It's exactly as you would imagine the location of something on a grid. Every street has a corresponding number going out from 1,1 (State & Madison) in increments of 100. In most cases, every 8 blocks (800) is one mile. This doesn't exactly hold true downtown, but it is a good general rule to approximate distances when your in the city.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_and_highways_ ... - catalysis, on 03/17/2008, -1/+27Chicago gets 75% of its energy from nuclear power.
- legendxx, on 03/17/2008, -1/+27Do you remember when you lost your love for living?
- bagofbeef, on 03/17/2008, -6/+31I was flying into Chicago at night
Watching the lake turn the sky into blue-green smoke
The sun was setting to the left of the plane
And the cabin was filled with an unearthly glow
In 27-D, I was behind the wing
Watching landscape roll out like credits on a screen
The earth looked like it was lit from within
Like a poorly assembled electrical ball
As we moved out of the farmlands into the grid
The plan of a city was all that you saw
And all of these people sitting totally still
As the ground raced beneath them, thirty-thousand feet down - dpjames, on 03/17/2008, -3/+25God damn, i thought ppl were just complaining, but now that I've been reading Reddit on a regular basis, frontpage Digg is SERIOUSLY frontpage Reddit from the day before... Almost to a freaky precision
- inactive, on 03/17/2008, -9/+30Unfortunately, it doesn't show what streets you're likely to get shot at while walking down.
- mwmccullough, on 03/17/2008, -1/+22Which one's Oprah?
- pianomahnn, on 03/17/2008, -0/+19It may not be the most efficient, but damn is it easy to navigate. 2400 N 1300 W? Sure, I know exactly where it is. I really wish all the streets were named with numbers, though. It's sometimes a pain to try and recall what block a certain street is at. Oh well.
- cleanideas, on 03/17/2008, -3/+21Oh! I can see my house from here!
- turbojugend23, on 03/17/2008, -3/+21Looks like something out of Tron.
- aparatoc, on 03/17/2008, -0/+16I can see my dog taking a ***** from here!
- bobbysarcletti, on 03/17/2008, -2/+16nice, really lets you see the grid system used in property/population distribution.
- superkickstart, on 03/17/2008, -4/+18cool! a monkey hive.
- pianomahnn, on 03/17/2008, -0/+14True, true. But living in Chicago, one can understand why most visitors think it's due to the weather. It's windy here!!
- Wartz, on 03/17/2008, -0/+13I never got lost in Chicago, I got lost in 2 seconds when I went to DC. Some planners are too genius for the public good.
- groverblue, on 03/17/2008, -0/+13I can see both of your houses. ;)
- twertyto, on 03/17/2008, -1/+13OMG Chicago is a ***** city.
- GliTCH82, on 03/17/2008, -0/+12Yeah, Europe was pretty much laid out so that your invading army has the ***** time figuring out where everything is.
- ceris, on 03/17/2008, -0/+12It's great. I grew up in Cicero (very much a grid city You can see it in the picture).. You can get to ANY address just from hearing it... For instance, 2243 58th ave will be on the intersection of 22nd street and 58th ave.
Good stuff. I'm in Germany right now and it's %100 the opposite. Of course, these cities were laid out a few hundred years before the car. - chubbymidget, on 03/17/2008, -3/+14Nice grid system.
- freshyill, on 03/17/2008, -1/+12Wow, nice grid. Puts Washington, D.C. to shame.
- palmer, on 03/17/2008, -0/+11The European city's what?
- Anteros, on 03/17/2008, -0/+11London : http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrnarbenfarkle/229264 ...
- ebob9, on 03/17/2008, -1/+11Um, it actually does include the downtown. The little jet of light sticking out into the lake is Navy Pier, which is even with the North branch of the river.
- scarysnow, on 03/17/2008, -1/+11it would have been green last saturday.
- HenvY, on 03/17/2008, -0/+10That's the same photo you douche.
- zydeco, on 03/17/2008, -1/+10Man, way to let all the secrets out. Next thing, you're gonna tell them that Chicagoans don't really eat deep dish pizza. We just make it to scalp the tourists.
- Obsession88, on 03/17/2008, -6/+15I can see my house getting broke into from here!
- eschatonik, on 03/17/2008, -0/+9Heh. First thing that came to my mind too.
- sasper, on 03/17/2008, -0/+9Agreed. If you know the major streets, you can pretty much get any where.
- theshizzler, on 03/17/2008, -0/+9It supposedly well planned, but the circles (which were put there for defense against armies) and diagonal streets kill me.
- palmer, on 03/17/2008, -2/+11As if a "grid" is some breakthrough. How else would you "organize" a city? Look at the mess that is L.A. to see how NOT to build a city.
The problem is that Chicago has squandered the benefits of this grid by destroying many of its streets (at taxpayer expense) by installing speedbumps. These are giant mounds of asphalt that can wreck your car, prevent emergency vehicles from moving about efficiently, and hamper snow removal. All built to placate whiners who moved into the city from the suburbs and then complained about cars driving down their street. - inactive, on 03/17/2008, -0/+9turn around ;)
- darkism, on 03/17/2008, -2/+11On the full-res I can see my building. The giant light on top helps.
- nirav72, on 03/17/2008, -1/+9You can easily tell were the city ends and the boonies start.
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