Update: This is St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church. I went back in the summer of 2023 to photograph the interior. I’ve noticed this church several times in the Loop in Chicago, and I finally snapped a picture this time from across the street. It’s weird, but the figure of Christ seems much more anthropomorphic in…
Tag: Chicago
Clark Street, Chicago Loop
Update: the building on the left is a synagogue. These certainly are odd buildings; I wonder if they were re-skinned back in the 1960’s.
Michigan Avenue Bridge Control Tower, Chicago
Update: See more of the bridge and river from September of 2023. Much to my surprise, the Michigan Avenue Bridge over the Chicago River has a museum in it now, well at least in the control tower on the southwest corner. Inside, you can see the gears that hoist the bridge open and closed. Well,…
Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago
This sculpture is just wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
LaSalle Street, Chicago
Update: I looked at LaSalle Street in great depth in the summer of 2023.
Union Station, Chicago
Chicago’s Union Station is an impressive building, in a city full of train stations. The stairs where the climactic shootout in the Untouchables occurred. OK, it might have been the other set of stairs, but they’re both identical.
Michigan Avenue Bridge Sculpture
Update: See more images of the bridge sculptures in this post from September of 2023.
Trump Tower
Update: The building is now complete. Hey, it will be old and historic some day–it’s too large to tear down.