Chicago Neighborhoods & Streets
This neighborhood is home to Midway Airport
Garfield Ridge
What is famously known as the only municipal building to survive the devastating Great Chicago Fire of 1871
Water Tower
TRIPLE POINTS: What Chicago neighborhood is the water tower in?
What are the 3 branches of government?
executive, judicial, legislative
What is the 3/5th compromise?
Southern and Northern delegates reached this compromise at the Constitutional Convention to determine how states would count enslaved people when apportioning seats in the House of Representatives and levying direct taxes
This state borders four of the five Great Lakes.
Michigan
DOUBLE POINTS: This is the only Great Lake entirely within the United States.
What is Chicago's longest continuous street?
Western Ave
This famous sculpture in Millennium Park is nicknamed "The Bean."
Cloud Gate
How many Amendments are there?
27
BONUS POINTS: We will go around to each team. Every team that correctly states an amendment and it number gets 100 points
The Louisiana Purchase was made under this president.
Thomas Jefferson
Double Points: Who did we purchase the Louisiana purchase from?
Another 100 Points: Who was the leader of the other nation at this time?
This mountain range stretches from Alabama into eastern Canada.
Appalachian Mountains
DOUBLE POINTS: The Rockies stretch from Canada to what US State?
This neighborhood is home to the University of Chicago.
Hyde Park
This famous novel exposing Chicago's meatpacking industry captured the attention of President Theodore Roosevelt and helped spur the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.
The Jungle
DOUBLE POINTS: Who is the author?
Only this chamber of Congress can initiate impeachment proceedings.
House of Representatives
William Henry Harrison
Double Points: How long was he president for?
The Four Corners Monument includes these four states.
Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah
These two streets form the center of Chicago's address grid.
state street and madison street
Bonus 200 Points: in which direction does state street run and which direction does madison street run?
Why is Chicago called the windy city?
Although many assume it refers to Lake Michigan's breezes, this Chicago nickname likely originated from newspaper writers mocking the city's long-winded politicians and civic boosters during the competition to host the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
How many states must ratify a constitutional amendment today?
38
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
Missouri Compromise
Name the capitals of the geographically northernmost and southernmost U.S. states.
Juneau (Alaska) and Honolulu (Hawaii)
BONUS 300 POINTS: Name the westernmost and easternmost state
This neighborhood is bordered by Lincoln Park to the east, Roscoe Village to the west, Uptown to the north, and North Center to the northwest.
Lakeview Neighborhood
Who is known as the quintessential builder and planner of modern Chicago?
What is the Great Compromise (also known as the Connecticut Compromise)?
reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, this agreement satisfied both large and small states by establishing equal representation in the Senate and proportional representation in the House.
This Constitutional Convention delegate is often called the "Father of the Constitution."
James Madison
Bonus 300 Points: Which Founding Father never became president despite serving as the nation's first Secretary of the Treasury?
This state borders only one other U.S. state.
Maine