"Hometown of skyscrapers"-Chicago

Chicago is located in the central and eastern United States, belonging to Illinois, and bordering Lake Michigan to the east. It is the third largest city in the United States. Chicago is located in the center of the North American continent and is a railway and aviation hub. Chicago is also one of the financial, cultural, manufacturing, futures and commodity trading centers in the United States. It has gradually become one of the cities with influence in the world. In addition, the Chicago metropolitan area has consistently ranked first in the United States in the number of new companies. It is known as the "hometown of skyscrapers". The time zone where Central Time in the United States represented by Chicago is UTC/GMT-6 (West 6th District), which is 14 hours away from Beijing time at UTC/GMT+8 (East 8th District)(13 hours away during Chicago's Daylight Saving Time).

Today, in Chicago there are about 50 buildings over 40 stories, ten stories and eight stories everywhere, rubbing shoulders and backs, hooking up with each other, filling Chicago. Visiting Chicago is like visiting an Architectural Art Expo or reading a vivid history of modern architecture. You can appreciate the works left by architectural masters Louis Sullivan, Burnham, Root, Wright and Mies Van der Roe, and appreciate many distinctive skyscrapers.

The building not far from the lake shines with silver light, like a huge white jade hairpin. It is one of the most beautiful skyscrapers in Chicago. It is called Amoko Build (formerly known as the Standard Oil Building). It has 82 floors and is 346 meters high. It is the tallest marble-faced building in the world. The owner is a wealthy oil company. The one by the lake, called the Hancock Center, has a 100-story, 343-meter-long cone with a rectangular cross-section, with two antennas protruding from the flat top and piercing into the sky.