This document provides information about 4 cities: Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, and Washington DC. For each city it lists key facts and highlights such as Boston being home to the first public park and subway, Chicago having over 200 theaters and nearly 40 million annual visitors, Cleveland having the first electric street lights, and Washington DC being the capital of the United States. The document compares various attributes of the 4 cities.
7. Boston is home to
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the nation's first public park ( The Boston Commons 1640 ),
the first public library ( 1653 ),
and the first subway ( 1897 ).
More than 18 million people visit Boston every year.
About 250,000 college students live in Boston.
Nearly 70 percent of housing units in Boston are occupied by renters rather than owners.
A two-bedroom apartment in Boston costs $1,343/month, on average.
Only 34 of Boston's 840 restaurants serve fast food.
12. Romanesque church (built in 1894) and the Byzantine-Renaissance extension (1906), which houses one of
the nation’s largest Aeolian-Skinner pipe organs (over 13,000 pipes).
18. Chic
Chicago is home to...
601 km2
An estimated 2,695,598 residents
Dozens of cultural institutions, historical sites and
museums
More than 200 theaters
Nearly 200 art galleries
More than 7,300 restaurants
77 community areas containing more than 100
neighborhoods
26 miles of lakefront
15 miles of bathing beaches
36 annual parades
19 miles of lakefront bicycle paths
552 parks
United States President Barack Obama
Nearly 40 million people visit Chicago annually
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pentru a preveni inundatiile si
poluarea
23. -Cleveland became the -Cleveland is home to the first
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world's first city to be traffic light! It is actually technically
fully lighted electrically in in Ashville, OH, and has been there
1879 since August 5, 1914.