if you hit the roof button on the elevator three times in a row, it takes you up but i never actually tried hitting it just once so that could just be a thing people say to make each other look like dorks or because they're superstitious. it works better in worse weather, but i always thought if you looked straight out horizontally from the third floor it was easy to pretend you were walking 100+ stories from the ground in some futuristic city of science. and as my camera and i get older and more beat up we remember things differently from how they...

All Things Go

author: procyon : Chicago, IL

This summer I moved from Chicago to Honolulu. I'm homesick as hell. This was home--the castle-like, multi-ballroomed, in some places disintegrating former Hotel Shoreland, also featured in this post. After this school year ends, it becomes condos. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreland_Hall (1926 Trib ad) This is a sculpture in the middle of the street. I read that it was declared an eyesore some time ago and the only reason it was still around when I left (or even when I got there) is that because it's in the middle of the street, it's on the border between two aldermen's wards, and they couldn't agree on...

Fear of Food

author: procyon : Chicago, IL

A place called Superdawg. The blinking eyes on the anthropomorphic hot dogs scared the hell out of me but there was a long line out the door so I guess they must be pretty good.

Midway Airport

author: joey : Chicago, IL

When flying into Chicago MDW a cool alternative to O'Hare

The El

author: serlingrod : Chicago, IL

Not a whole lot of pictures on here from Chicago unfortunately. Peter's recent post of Fulton Street Station in NYC reminded me of how interesting it can be to compare and contrast major subway systems. Chicago's El (so aptly named as an abbreviation of "Elevated" although some parts are underground) consists of eight different colored lines that do a pretty good job of covering most of the city. Chicago station platform in Streeterville Stairs leading up in the Loop The Loop, where horse meets elevated rail Transfering from the red to blue lines (as the ceiling tiles so artistically indicate) Many of the...

Wicker Park Street Art Along Milwaukee, North, Damen

author: serlingrod : Chicago, IL

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author: serlingrod : Chicago, IL

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