City of the Future | Chicago Part 3: The Atomic King
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- Опубликовано: 26 янв 2024
- Chicago has always been on the cutting edge of industries. Today, it is the epicenter of quantum technology research, the country’s leading nuclear energy producer, the logistics hub of the United States, the capital of Black America, and the forefront of the battle against rising coastlines and urban flooding.
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True to its innovative spirit, the Chicago area is home to several cutting-edge industries, like the emerging field of quantum technology.
Fermilab is America’s premier particle physics research facility, Argonne National Laboratory, connected by a fiber-optic cable to the University of Chicago. Scientists there are trying to apply atomic principles to improve communications and computing.
Four of the ten quantum labs in the United States are located in Illinois, which receives roughly four of every 10 dollars the federal government invests.
Illinois also produces far more nuclear power than anywhere else in America. 75% of Chicago’s electricity needs are now met by the state’s 11 reactors.
Chicago was where the dawn of the Nuclear Age happened, as America’s Manhattan Project raced the Germans during World War 2.
It did just that on December 2, 1942, when Enrico Fermi’s team achieved the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in a facility hidden underground on campus.
Waves of European immigrants during the 1800s made the city’s population 98.1% white in 1900. But over the next 60 years, in a period known as The Great Migration, six million African Americans left the South to settle in Chicago and other cities in the North.
By the 1990s, Chicago's South Side and its adjoining suburbs had become the largest African American majority region in the country, fostering all sorts of talent, from academics, activists, and rappers, to global icons like Michael Jordan (arguably the most successful American pro athlete), Oprah Winfrey (the richest African American of the 20th century), and the Obamas.
Create projects. 70 rail improvement projects are in various stages of completion, with more than two dozen already finished. Renovating Union Station.
With 8 lines, the amount of metal required to build the L turbo-charged Chicago’s steelmaking industry. During World War 2, it nimbly shifted to producing bombs, jeeps, tanks, and planes, and was a vital contributor to the Allied cause, producing more tons of the super-strong metal than the entire United Kingdom every year from 1939 to 1945, and all of Germany from 1943 to 1945.
The city has transformed itself into the Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics leader of the world’s largest consumer economy. Vast warehouses are clustered all along the canal and river, around its many large railyards, and to the west of O’Hare-the world’s second-busiest airport in terms of aircraft movements per day.
Since the 1970’s it has been adding massive tunnels, cavernous holding chambers, and gigantic lagoons like this one-a repurposed old mine. When this latest round of extreme engineering capacity to store 20 billion gallons
Lower Wacker Drive to flood and key buildings like Willis Tower to lose power.
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Correction: The 'L' is heavy rail, not light rail.
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Chicago is the epicenter of quantum technology research, the country’s leading nuclear energy producer, the logistics hub of the United States, the capital of Black America, and the forefront of the battle against warming-fueled urban flooding.
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Chicago is not the capital of Black America
Happy to see you posting again. I always enjoyed your channel. Keep up the good work.
That’s nice to hear, I appreciate that!
I love this series so much
You're the best, taco master!
I would love to see a video on Vancouver, Canada! Great content as always, looking forward to the finale.
Thanks Dylan! Great suggestion :)
It would be interesting if more irrigation canals into the Midwest or other parts of the US could ease water shortages there and also help during heavy rain seasons in Chicago. It would probably be very expensive, but it might be an option if the water levels continue to rise. I think the Chinese tried something similar with a south to north canal but it wasn’t a great success there because they mainly wanted it for drinking water.
Interesting idea. In my research I learned how complex the Great Lakes water system is (and the politics surrounding it). There's a big agreement in place that governs how the water can be used: greatlakes.org/campaigns/defending-the-great-lakes-compact/#:~:text=The%20Great%20Lakes%20Compact%20bans,may%20apply%20for%20a%20diversion.
The L is heavy rail, not light rail.
You’re right-thanks for the correction!
@@TDC_TheDocumentaryChannelMetra is Heavy Rail. CTA is light rail wtf
FYI the Elk Grove Village industrial park west of O'Hare is the largest industrial park in North America. My hometown
Wow! I didn't know that, but it totally makes sense--I was blown away by the number of trucks on the road around there.
Yes!
They need to do this in the Philippines
I think it would be interesting to see a mega city episode on Addis Ababa and Istanbul to very old cities with very real problems
Yes, Ethiopia is an interesting place. I did make a video on the megaprojects of Turkey a few years ago...ruclips.net/video/wjvQnT7dLJA/видео.html
Need a video on Toronto! Fastest growing city in the western world.
Thanks for the suggestion!
I don't think that's the case. I am pretty sure cities in Latin America are growing faster.
@@AlaskaPowerBottom I'm excluding latin America from my definition of the west, but maybe thats wrong
Argonne labs was there more than 40 yrs ago!
Wow!
I love this city. Speaking of the University of Chicago Obama was also a teacher there teaching constitutional law.
Indeed he was!
Sometimes some people don't practice what they preach
@@danmittler6321 as far as?
Finally some good press for Chicago 😂 even when some of it is debatable 😅
Detroit was the biggest manufacturer of the tanks and b2 bombers during ww2
It is nearby so I'm sure they worked hand-in-hand...
Chicago is the future, yea right, the only future it has is one riddled with crime and bankruptcy (kinda like Detroit). Pensions in Chicago are the most underfunded of any city (24% funded), and all the mayor (as well as the state governor) does is raise taxes to attempt to solve the crisis but all they do is drive more and more rich people and businesses out of the city and the state in the long run, making the problem even worse than before as they end up collecting less tax revenue in the long run. Not to mention crime is also increasing in the city thanks to the soft-on-crime progressive mayor Brandon Johnson who, instead of fixing crime, chooses to scold the public and news media for exposing crime and portraying Chicago as an unsafe place to live in despite Walmart and Target literally closing stores there due to rampant theft.