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... after the navy pier we walked back to the park to see the giant chrome jelly bean in the daylight ... our route was via the underground road tunnel that runs along the edge of the lake ... needless to say, we found that, yes, indeed, chicago has its share of people living in cardboard boxes ...
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... opinions as to its nature as art i'll leave for another discussion, but the giant chrome jelly bean is clearly great fun and a most effective crowd attractor ... odd, but in this sense it actually reminds me of the lincoln memorial in washington d.c. ...
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... like the great arch in st. louis, the giant chrome jelly bean is one of those places where the slightest movement can bring about profoundly unexpected changes in perspective, thus defining it as a photographer's delight ...
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... walking beneath the giant chrome jelly bean is to enter a cathedral of the surreal ...
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... adrien, it seems, clearly inherited at least a bit of pa's genetic code, for she has the ability to find those little historical tidbits which're overlooked by most ...
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... of course, always of the mind the we should be paying attention to the historical nature of the places we visit, adrien and i searched out the very beginnings of the city of chicago (ojibwa "place of the bad smell") ... nothing left from those times, seems that some time ago there was a bit of a fire in the city that burned up everything from the olden days ...
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... we explored a store/museum that specializes in the prints of john james audubon ... we saw many full-sized prints, some of them valued in excess of $400,000 ... like many people, most of my life i've been familiar with a coffee table edition of his book, "birds of america," but to see the life-sized hand colored engravings was a most impressive treat ... we were allowed to "browse" the shop for free, and, since we couldn't afford to purchase anything, the nice lady at the desk was kind enough to give us some bookmarks ...
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... not quite the end of our time in chicago, here adrien contemplates a scene from the t.v. series "e.r." ...