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Welcome to America Car Rental
Car Hire Chicago Airport
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Car Hire Chicago : Introduction
Car Hire Chicago is
a major metropolis located on the shore of Lake Michigan in Cook County. It is the
largest city in the state of Illinois and the third largest in the United States.
Chicago is classified as an alpha world city because of its rich history and architecture.
It is the anchor of the Chicago metropolitan area, commonly called Chicagoland.
The City of Chicago is almost entirely located in Cook County, Illinois, with a
small portion in DuPage County, while the metropolitan area extends over several
counties.
Car hire Chicago is
also known as 'The Windy City'. This popular nickname for Chicago was coined by
the editor of the New York Sun, Charles Dana, in 1893. Chicago was competing with
New York to host the 1893 Columbian Exposition and Dana allegedly coined the name
as a derogatory moniker.
Supposedly the term is not a reference to the winds off Lake Michigan as one might
suppose, but rather refers to the Chicagoan habit of rabid boosterism and shameless
boasting. To a New Yorker like Dana, Chicago was full of hot air.
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The history of Car Hire Chicago
is closely related the Lake of Michigan. Since before Chicago was founded, ships
were bringing people and supplies from all points on the compass. Lake Michigan
is the third largest of the Great Lakes, with a maximum depth of 925 feet and a
size slightly larger than the country of Croatia. The average depth off Chicago
’s shore averages 15?35 feet. To reach greater depths, one must travel several miles
out in the lake, or head north to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The lake bottom off Chicago?s shore is littered with shipwrecks, ranging from schooners
and tugboats to car ferries and even World War II airplanes. Scuba diving is a popular
recreation for local residents, as are lakefront cruises. Zebra mussels were discovered
in Lake Saint Clair in 1988, and soon spread, impacting the ecosystem. |
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