Posted August 12, 200618 yr It seems Chicago is the city of choice for UrbanOhioers this summer, and why not? It’s everything anyone in a forum like this could want in a city, and it’s close by, to boot: just a 5 hour car ride (or hour flight – plus security time and an L ride) puts you dead in the Loop. So along w/ MayDay, MyTwoSense and others, here’s my Chi-town take: The mighty Harold Washington memorial library; as mighty as the man, himself, sheathed in a handsome Richardsonian Romanesque style echoing the buildings style that was the rage a century before this building was built (in the mid 1990s) inside the Hal ...and outside. Lattice entertain you. Sorry for the blur on the rushing-north Brown line L, but it gives an idea of the residential explosion at or near the Loop (River North, here) and well beyond… O Brother Chicago, can you spare us, in Cleveland, just have one of these high-rise babies, … please? oh well, Cleveland, guess it's nice to know that even the greatest of cities has problems with ugly surface parking in their trendy loft neighborhoods ah, yes... urbanis sumptuous! Mag Mile in English? ... $hop 'til you drop May be Ohio street, but definitely not Ohio ATTN: Tower City bashers who cringe at its Payless Shoes Source: here sits a Payless right in the heart of the Magnificent Mile… … smack dab next door to a Starbucks, no less. :-o Roosevelt Road/South Loop development BP oh how you forsaketh thee... or is that, we? Guess this stately joint speaks for itself -- awesome fish & marine (ie dolphin, penguin) exhibits inside, too, just too long a line in the sweltering late July heat, ugh!! Roosevelt Metra station. You’d think being the only electrified commuter railroad off the eastern seaboard, Metra wouldn’t have stations this dilapidated, and in the wonderful “Museum Campus” area on top of that. Oh well, southward ho! … to south Chicago, that is. The famed Museum of Science & Industry ...and the Hyde Park nabe Beauties like these are woven all through the Chicago architectural fabric Hyde Park echoes some of those of the North Shore 'hoods, such as Rogers Park Time to Metra back to the to the Loop to check out and head for de plane! De Plane! Metra? Metropolitan? … a little bit of gay Paris on the grand prairie. that's it, that's all! until we return again, ... and that can't come soon enough!
August 12, 200618 yr rob, Chicago's skyscrapers are awesome (love MayDay's up-high looks), but I like to get down on street level, esp into the neighborhoods. That's where the real Chicago is in my book... glad you enjoyed.
August 14, 200618 yr I love the pics! Good job of showing what Chicago looks like to the everyday pedestrian.
August 14, 200618 yr Looks fun! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 15, 200618 yr It's always nice to see photos of my favorite city in the whole country. Thanks for posting these. :)
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