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Division St.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_Street_Russian_and_Turkish…
and a review:
www.yelp.com/biz/division-st-russian-and-turkish-baths-ch…

work being done on the Green/Pink lines (presumedly: these have been parked there a while)

peaceful – for use when January and February linger.
view large on black:
www.b12partners.net/photoblog/index.php?showimage=69

almost a cliche now.

West Loop – historic Beaux Arts-style building that used to house the coal-fired generators and boilers for the Chicago Northwestern Railroad, now converted into retail, office, restaurant space.

Superman and Terminator are immigrants too

another ‘pretending we are tourists in our own town’ shot.

have actually never eaten at Ginza

Milwaukee Avenue

playing around with the filter provided at

dubster.com/obamafy/

almost looks better in thumbnail version than expanded.

Easily identified, if you’ve been to this area in Chicagoland, or if you watched the recent Chicago River Architecture Tour documentary on Channel 11 (brief cameo of this same image, in summer)

Alley wall art, West Loop

I kid you not, this *is* Main Street, in Scenic, South Dakota, right outside of the Badlands. Unfortunately, I did not have time to stop in for a beer.

[ maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=Rapid+City,+SD&dad… ]

Next time.

I think the sign says, "Indians Allowed". Check out the large version to read the lettering (though since I enlarged a small crop, it is a little "soft")

Snow flurry in the West Loop, last winter.

we’ll have actual snow soon enough…

In losing you my days
have turned black.
When I was with you
even my nights were white.
-Ibn Zaydun

[note, no measurable snow has yet fallen downtown *this* year]

catching a quick smoke in the alley

inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson, of course.