Only in Chicago

When I was about 11 years old my family and I went on a vacation to Chicago. Then a couple of years later we visited the city again for our summer vacation and enjoyed the trip just as much as we did the first time around. I will never forget the first time I look at the giant sky scrapers, thousands of people walking and the subway rides.



Only in Chicago did I ride the subway for the first time. The subway had a distinctive smell to it, smells from the city’s streets mixing with body odors coming and going all day long. It was crowded, with people in business suits on their phones to a college student with a guitar to a homeless man sitting on a bench. Once on the train, the rhythm of the car moving put many people to sleep but they still manage to wake up for their stop. Like they ridden it so many times their bodies were a custom to waking up at that time. Not everyone slept though, I remember one time a guy sat down next to me and brought out a piece of paper and started sketching the people on the bus. Stop after stop after stop as the doors open and close with the beep it’s always the same, quickly get in and quickly get out but it never gets old.



Only in Chicago did I see my first real skyscrapers. Looking up in the sky, they seem to go on forever. Building after building, each one seems to get taller and taller. Glass windows, circle buildings, brick walls, modern styles are the types of buildings you can see when walk down the streets of Chicago. Every building you passed was tall but yet different; ranging in the style and architecture that the constructor decided to go with.



Only in Chicago did I see so many people in one place going in all different directions. The people you pass on the street all have different personalities, you never see the same person again. Ranging from, business men and women caring a brief case walking as quickly as they can to work or to catch a bus, to a homeless person wandering the streets.





Ever since I was little I wanted to visit a big city because there is a different atmosphere than a regular town. Chicago was and still is the only big city that I have been too but I wish I could visit more.