Emma C.C.

New York City vs. Chicago Illinois

Lights, horns of taxies and cars, and crowds of people... you can see all of this in big popular cities. You can smell the exhaust coming from cars and you can see the clusters of shops filled with diverse people. You’re walking down the sidewalk with the rapid movement of busy bystanders jostling, and bumping into you while trying to get to their destination. You feel overwhelmed with all the activity and commotion going on. That’s what it might feel like and look like if you were in cities like Chicago, Illinois and New York City. Even though New York and Chicago are both popular cities, they have many differences in what they look like and what surrounds them.

Two of my favorite places to visit are Chicago, Illinois and New York City. Both of these cities have a lot of immense skyscrapers and large buildings. Both of these beautiful cities also have many different styles of food to try. These two cities also have an abundant of activities to do, and visit well known for places like the Empire State Building in New York City, and the Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois. These are the similarities and differences of these two wonderful cities.

These two cities also have different surroundings and different activities to do in them. In Chicago, Illinois you can see that there is less trash on the ground and is cleaner. Chicago also doesn’t have any vendors or carts and other types of food trucks that you would find in New York. Chicago is also not as crowded as Times Square and Rockefeller Center in New York. Chicago also has a pier, The Navy Pier, that is beautiful and has a bountiful selection of restaurants, shops, and boat tours, and they also have a couple of rides including a Ferris wheel. In contrast, New York City has many different seasonal activities that are taken place in Rockefeller Center, for example, during the winter they have an ice-skating rink, and they also have a big celebration that’s called the Christmas tree lighting. Unlike Chicago, New York holds the biggest event of the year, New Year’s Eve. New York also has a bunch of theaters, for example, the most popular is Broadway where they put on a bunch of different performances. These are the differences of these two cities.

In conclusion, if you like big and popular cities filled with various surroundings with an abundant of activities to do then Chicago, Illinois and New York City are the place to be. With both New York and Chicago having bountiful and immense skyscrapers with a beautiful skyline, they both differ in their environments, and there must see places. So if you want to get away from a small town, then the "Big Apple" and the "Windy City" id the perfect place to visit.