Thanks to our new blogging software, we can only include a few images in one post. Here is part three of our Chicago Photo Essay, Part one can be found HERE, while Part two can be found HERE.
The main reason for our visit, to take in a performance of “Mary Page Marlowe,” the new play written by Tracy Letts at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where Mel and I got married
The front door
The poster (read my review in last Friday’s PopCulteer)
Classy photos of past productions in the lounge at Steppenwolf
More of them classy photos
My classy wife lookin’ at them classy photos
It looked cool, so I took a photo. We did not go to Chicago to eat there
The Highpants Tower in the background, overlooking the Goiter Building
Deliberate Industries, where flavored napalm was invented in the 1960s
The historic birthplace of Norman Fell
A huge luxurous hotel made entirely of Lincoln Logs
It costs fifty bucks to vomit in a Chicago taxi, so budget accordingly
Two modern sculptures that find themsleves attracted to a stoplight, thinking that it’s one of their own kind
The Dilbert Tower
The famed Rooftop Chariot Track
This is what they advertise on buses in Chicago. All we get is that guy from the Kia commercials.
The Hancock Tower looms over Water Tower Place, which includes seven stories of a premium mall
Water Tower Place contains a Lego Store
The LEGO Store has the Ghostbusters Firehouse
It also has the Batman TV Show Batcave. These are not unique to Chicago, but I’m posting them here in case anyone wants to buy them for me
There is also a Dr. Seuss gallery, which I’ve written about in PopCult before
As with many urban malls, there are displays of the work of Rene Magritte, recreated with candy wrappers
The famed Chicago Water Tower
A really cool photo taken while standing in the middle of a busy street, right outside Water Tower Place. From left to right you see The Dildonington Buidling, The Filch Building, Pilkington Place, Mazda/Sleater-Kinney Tower and just a corner of Chimneymeat Square
Remember all that weight your PopCulteer lost recently? Well, if you’re going to cheat on your diet, cheat big!
Mrs. PopCulter, the host of On The Road with Mel, thinking chocolate thoughts
Another look at the Chicago Water Tower, which now plays host to Cards Against Humanity tournaments, no really
Close up at the Water Tower
The Pumping Station, across from The Water Tower
The Hancock Tower. One of the reference photos I used for this week’s Monday Morning Art
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Part of the New City Mall, which we will visit on a later trip
Ultra-hip Diabetic Treatment Center
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A Wine and Book Store in Lincoln Square
The manly men’s annex, next to Merz Apothecary
Cool prayer candles inside Laurie’s Planet of Sound
Some of these came home with us
One of my favorite places to stop in Chicago
The park where we recorded the Lincoln Square segment of Mel’s show
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The Flange District, as seen in the movie, “The Untouchables”
The Chicago skyline, as seen from Lakeshore Drive
The El, you say!
This one is probably too well-known for me to assign a random nonsense name, like I’ve been doing for many of the buildings in this photo essay
You PopCulteer and his new bronze friend
This life-sized bronze grillmaster outside one of my favorite restaurants looks over the Hilton Garden Inn Business Center, which really creeps you out once in a while when you forget he’s there and think somebody has snuck up on you
We leave you with a photo of Union Station, a beautiful place that, of which, I really should’ve taken more photos
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