Chicago is an amazing urban landscape, with a stunning skyline including dazzling skyscrapers and magnificent gothic inspired buildings (including the Tribune Tower on Michigan Avenue) and some of the most famous architects have worked here including Louis Sullivan, Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright. It is not surprising when you look around this stunning city that the first steel-framed skyscraper in the world, the Reliance Building (now the wonderful Hotel Burham) was built here.

Typical of cities situated in humid continental climate areas (mid latitude zones with conflicting polar and tropical air masses) Chicago has extremely cold, snowy winters and lovely warm sunny summers, with plenty of rain and thunderstorms throughout the year. Chicago is often called ‘the windy city’ but this isn’t because of the weather, but instead because of the pompous, longwinded bragging by Chicago city officials, which goaded Charles Dana, (editor of the New York Sun) to famously gave it the ‘windy city’ nickname in 1893.

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