Chicago Photowalking

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Female Street Performer

2007-07-18T18:37:00.000-05:00

Palmolive Building

2007-07-17T14:44:00.000-05:00

Built for one of the world's leading soap manufacturers, this office building ("a monument to cleanliness") was the first commercial skyscraper built far from the Loop - at the northern end of Michigan Avenue. It was known as the Playboy Building from 1965 to 1989, when it served as headquarters for Playboy magazine.

From the Chicago Historical Society

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Benito Juarez

2007-07-16T20:47:00.000-05:00

Today Benito Juarez is remembered as being a progressive reformer dedicated to democracy, equal rights for the nation's indigenous Indian population, lessening the great power that the Roman Catholic Church then held over Mexican politics, and defense of national sovereignty. The period of his leadership is known in Mexican history as La Reforma (the reform), and constituted a liberal political and social revolution with major institutional consequences: the expropriation of church lands, bringing the army under civilian control, liquidation of peasant communal land holdings, and adoption of a federalist constitution.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Solaris

2007-07-15T20:46:00.000-05:00

Street Performer

2007-07-14T20:45:00.000-05:00

Ben Franklin

2007-07-13T20:44:00.000-05:00

Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most critical Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, political theorist, politician, printer, scientist, inventor, civic activist, environmentalist, and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As a political writer and activist he, more than anyone, invented the idea of an American nation,[1] and as a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured the French alliance that helped to make independence possible.

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Flowers

2007-07-12T21:18:00.000-05:00

Art Institute Lions

2007-07-11T20:43:00.000-05:00

Trumpet Player

2007-07-10T20:37:00.000-05:00

Central Camera

2007-07-09T20:32:00.000-05:00

Reflection

2007-07-08T20:18:00.000-05:00

Celebrating Girlhood

2007-07-07T20:12:00.000-05:00

Hancock Plaza

2007-07-06T20:08:00.000-05:00

Fountain

2007-07-05T20:01:00.000-05:00

Visiting...

2007-07-04T22:18:00.000-05:00

Goldcoast Homes

2007-07-03T19:52:00.000-05:00

Goethe

2007-07-02T06:52:00.000-05:00

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, Humanism, science, and painting. His most enduring work, the two-part dramatic poem Faust, is considered one of the peaks of world literature.

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Madam Butterfly

2007-07-01T06:49:00.000-05:00

The bikes have been replace by what seems like paper mache dresses and they're all up and down the Mag mile.

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Taste of Chicago

2007-06-30T20:51:00.000-05:00

Talk about over crowded and way over priced.

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The Bean

2007-06-29T19:37:00.000-05:00

Orange

2007-06-28T19:12:00.000-05:00

Elgin Home

2007-06-27T18:58:00.000-05:00

State Building

2007-06-25T07:06:00.000-05:00

Gay Parade

2007-06-24T10:43:00.000-05:00

This weekend was the annual Gay Pride Parade in Chicago's Boystown. This parade is always fun to go to, besides all the free protection they give out, it's like going to big party.

Ceasars

2007-06-23T07:19:00.000-05:00

Ceasars 4
Originally uploaded by annhille

Headed over to Ceasars for a drinks with friends this weekend. Their margaritas are AWESOME. I always have a blast with I go there.

Ceasars 3
Originally uploaded by annhille

REDEYE-VOTE NOW

2007-06-22T10:20:00.000-05:00

VOTE NOW for Best in Chicago Party Animals

City Hall

2007-06-22T08:41:00.000-05:00

All forms of government are susceptible to political corruption. Forms of corruption vary, but include bribery, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, patronage, graft, and embezzlement. While corruption may facilitate criminal enterprise such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and trafficking, it is not restricted to these organized crime activities. And no where is that more true than in Chicago.

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Lower John Hancock Plaza

2007-06-21T21:15:00.000-05:00

Oak Street Beach

2007-06-20T13:39:00.000-05:00

2007-06-19T21:18:00.000-05:00

"You think you're better than me with your rock hard abs and your dynamite areolas? Well, you're not!" Dr. John Dorian

Skyline

2007-06-18T12:41:00.000-05:00

The Chicago Skyline is ranked 4th most impressive skyline in the world. In the summer the lake is packed with beach goers, bikers, and of course for those lucky few sail boaters. I recently got invited to go sailing and it's amazing how many few people have actually been on the lake. I'm so excited, I can't wait to go!

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2007-06-17T15:13:00.000-05:00

Stewie: "Did you hear that Meg? Guys can marry other guys now. So...this is awkward, but I mean, if they can do that, that is pretty much it for you, isn't it? I mean you as well pack it in. Game over." Stewie Griffin

James R. Thompson Center

2007-06-16T07:40:00.000-05:00

Lincoln Park

2007-06-15T09:29:00.000-05:00

A lot of people don't know that Lincoln Park is actually bigger than New York's Central Park and was named after Abraham Lincoln. It is also home to the Lincoln Park Zoo and The Notebaert Nature Museum.

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Wrigley Building

2007-06-11T16:25:00.000-05:00

One of the major things I love about Chicago is the architecture. The Wrigley Building is one of my favorite buildings after the Tribune Building.

CBOT

2007-06-10T09:19:00.000-05:00

The Chicago Board of Trade is located at 141 West Jackson Boulevard Chicago, Illinois 60604-2994. There is a statue on top of the building, a lot of people don't know that the statue is faceless.

2007-06-09T14:21:00.000-05:00

"Stewie (to one of the prostitutes at Cleveland's house): So, is there any tread left on the tires? Or at this point would it be like throwing a hot dog down a hallway?" Stewie Griffin

The Notebaert Nature Musuem

2007-06-08T16:05:00.000-05:00

Since the CTA sucks balls, I've taken to walking home when it's really nice outside. The other day I was walking The Notebaert Nature Museum and noticed little baby ducklings in the lake.

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2007-06-07T14:10:00.000-05:00

"I'd love to stay and chat but your a complete bitch, so bye!" Stewie Griffin

Harold Washington Library

2007-06-06T13:42:00.000-05:00

The Harold Washington Library building in the South Loop is one of the most beautiful in Chicago. Named after the late Mayor Harold Washington. Located at 400 South State StreetChicago, Illinois 60605, it has large owls perched on each corner looking down into the city.

At sunrise I arose…by Michel Deguy

2007-06-06T13:41:00.000-05:00

At sunrise I arose
To the sound the machine animals make
passing by in the streets over heads
Was it briefly interminable or
interminably brief or both
It was the face ever undone by the mouth
that sentences me to the blinking
of the apparition that slips away in itself,
to erasure, on the edge of the world
It was five o'clock it is six o'clock my love says
One more hour went by an hour has passed
Where the e is not the voice inserts it
and wherever mute phonemes may be they muzzle
My error is ancient my love
To the stalactites of the ages was added
one more micron between your shore and mine
The error of one who hides in a corpse
pulling on the death mask but
Often I understand what people say to me

Tulips

2007-06-05T13:27:00.000-05:00

One of the first signs of Spring in Chicago are the tulips that pop up every year. One of the reason's I love Chicago is because it is such a Green city.

Beer vs. Make-up

2007-06-04T14:16:00.000-05:00

2007-06-02T14:04:00.000-05:00

“ Evidently Madam, you and I differ greatly in our conception of beauty" Stewie Griffin

Spring Art

2007-06-01T13:28:00.000-05:00

Every year in the spring you can see art displays pop up all over downtown. This year it was bicycles painted by different artists.

CTA Blows

2007-05-31T00:31:00.000-05:00

Is it me? Or is the CTA getting worse? For the past two weeks catching the bus to and from work has been hell. I the mornings I catch the bus on the corner of Belmont and Lakeshore Dr. I spend at least thirty-five minutes waiting for a bus that I can actually ride, to come. I take the 145/146 to Michigan and Pearson. Every morning with0ut fail, about six 135 buses going to Lasalle pass me by. Four are usually packed like sardines and two are almost empty. When a 145/146 does happen to show up it's packed beyond capacity, it's ridiculous. Going home is worse, how many 147's are there? There are so many 147's heading north in the evening rush hour it's not even funny. There are at least five 147's to each 145/146. And now they're talking about raising the cost of riding the bus? I don't know about you but it may be time to start walking to and from work. I'll probably get around faster anyway.

Too Graphic?

2007-05-04T11:19:00.000-05:00

Yesterday while I was waiting for the bus home, I noticed that there some Pro-lifers walking around downtown with huge poster boards of mutilated babys with the words ABORTION and Roe v. Wade on top. The images were quite disturbing.

Water Tower

2007-05-02T10:50:00.000-05:00

The Chicago Water Tower and Pumping Station the only building to survive the Great Fire of 1871, is now a major tourist attraction. Located is at 806 N Michigan Ave in the amid the Mag Mile. The Looking Glass Theatre is now housed in the Water Tower Works across the street from the Water Tower itself.