Random Chicago 1

There are going to be a lot of random chicago photographs, so I already started numbering this post knowing there´ll be more to follow. Just as I did back in Berlin, when it became a little difficult to include really interesting pictures into posts with a particular subject. A city so diverse and constantly changing, breathing that big city spirit, needs more space than just in a catchphrase or slogan. That´s when I started the random-series; it´s easy to just pick pictures that have little or no connection to eachother and display them randomly. Chicago is so different from Berlin, but also so interesting and fascinating that it needs that extra space in my posts. Every picture stands for itself and tells its own story.

St. James Cathedral and Hancock Tower. Old and new go together well, only sometimes the old is demolished too quickly, giving way to the most powerful language a big city understands: fast money. Even historical landmarks are not entirely safe from influential developers and easily convinced city officials.

A street scene from a Park West neighborhood. Chicagoans are a liberal and

open minded crowd and this restaurant refers to an

interesting alleged episode of the President.

Fire escape route. Keep calm and continue down,

or jump onto the blue line platform.

One of the many (draw-) bridges crossing the Chicago River in the downtown

area. To the left one of the Marina City Towers can be seen. The two pointy towers

in the distance are the Mather Tower and the Carbide and Carbon Building.

Unspectacular but so spectacular: the Monadnock building actually consists of two buildings, the older north half and the south half. They were state of the art when finished in 1891 and 1893 respectively, and both have their architectural superlatives.

When Brian De Palma filmed The Untouchables in 1987 he paid tribute to the

famous Odessa Stairs Scene by Sergei Eisenstein. This is where the shoot-out

and the baby´s heroic rescue happened - Union Station, West Loop.

Another architectural highlight, the Merchandise Mart -

a massive art-deco structure.

Part of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion by Frank Gehry in Millenium Park.

Now I see that a common theme could have been architecture,

but then again everything about Chicago is architecture.






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