The end of the outdoors is near...

The "MiesDonald's," Chase/Exelon Plaza, Clark + Monroe

Quick thumbnail of Olive Park, just south of Navy Pier looking west toward the skyline.

Olive Park looking east, treeline and the lake.

What results from an ACTUAL lunch-hour

The Thompson Center, Clark/Lake

The EL, Lake/LaSalle

Will need some new pens soon..

Outdoor cafe underneath the Marc Chagall sculpture in Chase Tower Plaza, Dearborn/Monroe

Then and Now Part 1 - layers of Michigan Avenue street-wall from Millennium Park. Just the beginning of several examples of modern glass skyscrapers peeking up behind the historic Michigan street-wall from Roosevelt to Randolph.

Pattern in a riverwalk railing and the facade of the building on the other side of the river. Riverwalk/LaSalle St.

A great rusted grimy thing that sits in the river, along both sides of all bridges.

So it was hot this week

The only thing here resembling Daley Plaza is the bird.

City Hall, Clark/Washington (Holabird + Roche, 1911)