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Our first trip to the Windy City. En savoir plus
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    Chicago Theatre

    3 mai 2023, États Unis ⋅ ☁️ 46 °F

    The Chicago Theatre was the first large, lavish movie palace in America and was the prototype for all others. This beautiful movie palace was constructed for $4 million by theatre owners Barney and Abe Balaban and Sam and Morris Katz and designed by Cornelius and George Rapp. It was the flagship of the Balaban and Katz theatre chain.En savoir plus

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    What Time is it?

    3 mai 2023, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 46 °F

    The former flagship Marshall Field and Company Building location on State Street in the Loop of downtown Chicago was officially renamed Macy's on State Street on September 9, 2006.
    This clock is located on the corner of Randolph and State Streets and has existed since the building was first constructed in 1892.En savoir plus

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    Blick Art Supplies

    3 mai 2023, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 46 °F

    Blick Art Supplies is the current resident of this very unique building that was made in 1934. This was originally a German restaurant and there is even an ornate glockenspiel clock, whose small wooden doors conceal the building’s quirkiest feature—a colorful statue of King Gambrinus, the legendary icon of beer.En savoir plus

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    First United Methodist Church of Chicago

    3 mai 2023, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 46 °F

    This 568-foot-tall skyscraper is the tallest church building in the world, topping the spire heights of Europe's grand cathedrals. It serves as a Neo-Gothic monument to the Methodists’ commitment to the Loop at a time when pressure was great to move to the suburbs. It is home to the First United Methodist Church of Chicago, the oldest congregation in the city. The tower houses the "Sky Chapel" at its highest level, a sanctuary on the ground floor and office space on the floors in between.En savoir plus

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    City Hall

    3 mai 2023, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 46 °F

    The next place we visited on our tour was Chicago’s city hall. I loved the architecture here and it reminded me of some of the area I’ve been to in New York. I’m guessing that I wasn’t paying attention to the tour because I didn’t even know that this was city hall until after we had left. I think that I would have appreciated it more had I known.En savoir plus

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    The Picasso

    3 mai 2023, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 46 °F

    Standing 50 feet tall and weighing over 160 tons, the Chicago Picasso in Daley Plaza is much more than just artwork to Chicagoans. The untitled Picasso sculpture that originally sparked controversy in the city has now become one of Chicago’s most famous sculptures and beloved icons.En savoir plus

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    Unnamed

    3 mai 2023, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 46 °F

    Nobody really knows what this sculpture is supposed to be because Picasso never named it or offered any explanation about it when it was unveiled. In the first photo it looks like an animal, maybe a fox, but from this angle I can definitely see a face looking to the left.En savoir plus

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    Chagall’s Four Seasons

    3 mai 2023, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 46 °F

    Composed of thousands of inlaid chips in over 250 colors, Marc Chagall’s mosaic artwork The Four Seasons portrays six scenes of Chicago. It features a vocabulary of images informed by the artist’s Russian-Jewish heritage and found in his Surrealist paintings such as birds, fish, flowers, suns and pairs of lovers. Chagall maintained, “the seasons represent human life, both physical and spiritual, at its different ages.” The design for this mosaic was created in Chagall’s studio in France, transferred onto full-scale panels and installed in Chicago with the help of a skilled mosaicist.En savoir plus

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    Palmer House

    3 mai 2023, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 48 °F

    The historic Palmer House in Chicago has boasted the bronze peacock doors since it re-debuted in 1873 after being forced to close in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. Tiffany & Co.’s Louis Comfort Tiffany designed these charactered enhancements for the C.D. Peacock store that was once located on the hotel’s first floor.En savoir plus

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    Passing Through

    3 mai 2023, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 48 °F

    We’re taking a shortcut through the Palmer Hotel building and, since I was paying attention this time, I learned that brownies were invented here. As the story goes, Bertha Palmer (wife of hotel owner Potter Palmer) asked the kitchen crew to whip up a portable dessert that could be served at the Columbian Exposition World's Fair.En savoir plus

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    The L

    3 mai 2023, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 48 °F

    Although subways were the choice in other growing cities like New York and London, Chicago selected elevated railways because they were cheaper to construct and did not require much digging There were also concerns at the time that the city's swampy soil might not tolerate a subway system.En savoir plus

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    Get Your Kicks…

    3 mai 2023, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 48 °F

    Countless motorists have rambled along the “double six,” stopping to pay homage to the stunning natural landscapes, important historical landmarks, and iconic (as well as just plain wacky) roadside attractions. The adventure of a lifetime can begin right here, in the midst of downtown Chicago’s hustle and bustle.En savoir plus

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    Faces of Chicago

    3 mai 2023, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 48 °F

    The two identical 50-foot towers project video images of Chicago citizens, a reference to the traditional use of gargoyles in fountains, where faces of mythological beings were sculptured with open mouths to allow water, a symbol of life, to flow out. The collection of faces provides tribute to Chicagoans and was taken from a cross-section of 1,000 residents representing Chicago’s vast demographics in terms of age, gender and ethnicity.En savoir plus

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