Next week, the FTF team will be leaving New York City for a few days to take on another famous city… Chicago. FTF has been coordinating a few events and training courses that will be taking place in Chicago throughout the next week. Our busy schedule is as follows:
Monday, May 9th:
– 3rd Annual OTC & Exchange Traded Derivatives Ops Conference
-Where: W Chicago City Center
-When: 9am-4:30pm
Tuesday, May 10th:
– Understanding the Securities Industry – One-Day Training Course
-Where: W Chicago City Center
-When: 8:30am-5pm
–Trading 2011: Life in the Fast Lane, Changing Gears – An Aite Group Event
-Where: Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park
-When: 2pm-7pm
Wednesday, May 11th:
–Understanding Portfolio Management & Trading
-Where: W Chicago City Center
-When: 8:30am-12:30pm
–Custody & Securities Operations Seminar
-Where: W Chicago City Center
-When: 1pm-4:30pm
As you can see, it’s an eventful 3 days, but we wanted to leave you with something fun as well! So here are some interesting fun facts about The Windy City. Hope we see you there!
* 26 miles of lakefront
* 15 miles of bathing beaches
* Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837.
* Chicago’s nicknames include: The Windy City, the City of Big Shoulders, the Second City, and The City That Works.
* The “Historic Route 66” begins in Chicago at Grant Park on Adams Street in front of the Art Institute of Chicago.
* The first Ferris wheel made its debut in Chicago at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Today, Navy Pier is home to a 15-story Ferris wheel, modeled after the original one.
* Chicago’s downtown area is known as “The Loop.” The nickname refers to the area encircled by the elevated (‘L’) train tracks.
* The Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at 110 stories high.
* The Willis Tower elevators are among the fastest in the world operating as fast as 1,600 feet per minute
* The first televised U.S. presidential candidates’ debate was broadcast from Chicago’s CBS Studios on September 26, 1960, between John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Richard Milhous Nixon.
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