Louisville, Kentucky’s Cave Hill Cemetery is a bona fide tourist attraction and a national landmark. Dedicated in 1848, it boasts more than 120,000 interments that include the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, paupers and bourbon barons alike. There are more than 600 varieties of trees on the grounds, tended by an army of 40 gardeners, as well as a wedding chapel where couples say “till death do us part” quite literally surrounded by Victorian-era tombstones. Cave Hill also hosts the final resting places of Muhammad Ali, “Happy Birthday” songwriter Mildred J. Hill, and the person who is arguably more synonymous with Kentucky than anyone in history: Colonel Harland Sanders.
Chicago’s L: the Ugly Duckling that Made a City By defining the downtown Loop more than a century ago, elevated trains and tracks gave the city a vibrant economic and cultural center. It s a core element that other cities don t have. Alan Ehrenhalt, Senior Editor | December 10, 2020
When I was a kid in Chicago, I used to have a good time strolling along Wabash Avenue, the downtown street under the elevated train tracks that run 20 feet above the busy sidewalk.
Within just a few blocks on Wabash, I could sample the delights of a well-stocked music store, browse a world-class bookshop, check out the merchandise in the immense Marshall Field department store, or order a Pittsburger, said to be the city s best hamburger, in the basement of the Pittsfield office building.