Chicago (July 4th)
Britt and I visit the Second City for the Fourth of July weekend.

   

View from our room
Crossing the Chicago River
Marina City: The world's largest corn cobs
What a store! Marshall Fields' ceiling
Commies at the Palmer House Hilton?
Elephants enjoy the opulence of the Palmer House Hilton
Calder statue
Approaching Sears Tower
Going straight to El
Come see the taller side of Sears
It goes up and up and up ...
Push a button, any button
At the top
Overlooking the museums and Soldier Field
Holy Hancock!
Looking north
Bird's-eye view of Millennium Park
In the Sears Tower freight elevator: Push my buttons
Britt gets served
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago Public Library
Roaring into the Art Institute of Chicago
Did Van Gogh have one ear or two when he painted "The Bedroom"?
"A Sunday on La Grande Jatte," as seen on a Saturday in Chicago
Côte d'Ivoire elephant mask
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's ... yeah, it's a plane
Gehry's bandshell
The least observed sign in Chicago
Holy Cow!
Chicago blade
The garden girls
Heading toward the Field Museum
A dinosaur named Sue
Field elephants
Shorty Shirley
Funny business
A nightime stroll
The Wrigley Building in red, white and blue