chicago: I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore!
- 10/11/13 04:12 AM
I am fortunate enough to live in one of the most vibrant and beautiful cities in the modern world. And this video by Max Wilson shows it off to it's best.
The colours are radiant, the images inspiring, and for those of us who know the buildings, locations and areas, they are breathtaking and larger than life images.
Spend a few moments with this video, and you'll come to appreciate the city of big shoulders in a new way.
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chicago: Walking in a Zoo-Light Wonderland!
- 12/17/11 05:08 AM
If you're fortunate enough to live in (or near) the wonderful city of Chicago, you have heard of, or visited the Lincoln Park Zoo.
It's a wonderful facility with a zoo (and farm) right in the heart of Lincoln Park (a tony area on the north side of the city).
Every year, around this time, they offer the public the opportunity to visit the zoo at night, when it's lit for the holiday season.
The animals demand (and deserve) a little holiday festivity, just like the rest of us, and they seem to enjoy the colours and the crowds who come to ooh … (16 comments)
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chicago: I do not adapt well to change.
- 07/16/09 05:01 AM
I don't adapt well to change. Not many of us do.
After 36 years, the Sears Tower, in Chicago (named after the orignal largest tenant in the building), is changing names.
A british insurance brokerage named the Willis Group is going to least 140,000 square feet of space in the landmark buidling, and as part of their lease deal, they are being allowed to rename the building. (Damn, did they have a high-powered negotiator, or what?).
They have decided to rename it, effective today, "The Willis Tower".
Sorry... just doesn't have the same feel, the same "Je ne sai quoi".
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chicago: the Eastland Disaster
- 11/11/08 02:31 AM
Unless you've lived under a rock for the last 100 years, (and it'd have to be a big rock!) everyone has heard of the disaster of the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic. The titanic went to the bottom of the Atlantic on her Maiden voyage on April 15, 1912, and resulted in the deaths of 1517 people making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in History.
The Titanic was the subject of books, investigations, films, songs, and the vehicle that carried Leonardo DiCaprio to stardom.
But how many of you know about the Eastland Disaster?.... ahh... I thought not. Being in … (9 comments)
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