Where I Was
The Other Reader & I took a trip to Chicago last week, my home town and where we met. It was my first time back in a few years. We visited friends, and wandered around and were tourists.
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| The Glessner House. The neighbors didn't like it, I wonder why... |
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| A more typical Prairie Avenue mansion |
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| The Baha'i Temple. This was the limit of my bike rides when I was a kid. |
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| The Hippos and Rhinos Bridge! The Hippos and Rhinos Bridge! As my friend excitedly shouted... |
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| Bridge detail. Note hippo, rhino. |
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| The South Shore Cultural Center, where Barack and Michelle held their wedding reception. But not before a certain other couple... |
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| The CTA stop near a friend's. Not my neighborhood, but much more like where I grew up than all those other pictures. One of only three CTA stops at grade level, announced my friend, an engineer. |
Earlier Reading
I did some Chicago reading and posts in preparation for the trip!
Plans
I signed up for #20BooksOfSummer at 746Books. Will I read twenty books this summer? Oh, probably. Will they be exactly those twenty books? Hmm... But they're all such good books!
And how about you?
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I would like to visit Chicago someday. I'm celebrating a reading milestone today
ReplyDeleteIt is a great city, with a lot of fun stuff to do. (Said the notorious Chicago booster.) Thanks for coming by!
DeleteWe visit Chicago frequently as my son and daughter-in-law live there. I love the Art Institute there.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book set in Chicago is The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek. It's a collection of short stories.
Enjoy your week!
We went to the Art Institute, too, this trip--it's hard not to, such a great museum.
DeleteI've never read the Dybek; I really should read it. I've heard such good things about it.
I drove through Chicago once on a greyhound bus. All I remember is very tall buildings. Otherwise, all I know is what I watched on ER. :D
ReplyDeleteMaybe some day I'll visit and actually be able to exit the vehicle. But not during winter.
Definitely not during winter!
DeleteThere are a lot of great things, though. Did I mention I was a booster?...
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