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City in a Garden (literal translation of city motto, Urbs in horto) [17] The City of the Big Shoulders [18] (from Chicago, a Carl Sandburg poem) The City That Works (by Mayor Daley, for example [19]) Mud City [20] The Second City [18] The White City (referencing the World's Columbian Exposition) [citation needed] The Windy City [18
"Mud City" – possibly the oldest nickname for the city, referring to the fact that the terrain of the city used to be a mud flat [22] "City by the Lake" – used as early as the 1890s [23] "The City that Works" – slogan from Richard J. Daley's tenure as mayor, describing Chicago as a blue-collar, hard-working city, which ran relatively ...
Harbor Town sits atop 132 acres (53 hectares) on a sandbar in the Mississippi River known as Mud Island. It was developed in 1989, [1] and was a collaborative effort of Memphis developer Henry Turley, RTKL of Baltimore, and the Looney Ricks Kiss architectural firm from Memphis. The Henry Turley Company stated that the neighborhood intends to ...
Mud (Persian: مود) [a] is a city in, and the capital of, Mud District of Sarbisheh County, South Khorasan province, Iran. [4] It also serves as the administrative center for Mud Rural District . [ 5 ]
Chan Chan is the largest mud city in the world, and its fragile material is cause for concern. The heavy rains of El Niño damages the base of Chan Chan's structures. Increased rain also leads to increased humidity, and as humidity gathers in the bases of these structures, salt contamination and vegetation growth can occur, which further damage ...
Mud Island is a small peninsula in Memphis, Tennessee. [1] It is bordered by the Mississippi River to the west and the Wolf River and Harbor Town to the east. Mud Island River Park is within the Memphis city limits, 1.2 miles (1.9 km) from the coast of downtown. Mud Island includes a museum, restaurants, an amphitheater, and a residential area. [2]
The Memphis Suspension Railway, Mud Island Monorail, or Memphis Monorail is a suspended monorail that connected the city center of Memphis with the entertainment park on Mud Island. Celebrating its grand opening on July 3, 1982, [1] it was located beneath a footbridge over the Wolf River Lagoon connecting to the southern tip of Mud Island. In ...
Robert Ronald "Mudman" Simon (September 4, 1950 – September 7, 1999), also known as Bobby Simon, was an American outlaw biker, convicted murderer and member of the Pennsylvania-based Warlocks Motorcycle Club.