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1: Juanita Jordan's House
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The ex-wife of basketball legend Michael Jordan, paid $4.7 million for this newly built, 23-room mansion in the River North neighborhood. It’s one of the highest prices ever paid for a detached single-family house in Chicago, and one of the highest prices paid by a celebrity for a residence in the Chicago area.
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2: Louis Farrakhan's House
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The head of the Nation of Islam lives here.
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3: AA Flight 191 crash site
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Although this was the deadliest US aircraft accident, there is nothing to mark the spot near Chicago O'Hare where the plane hit the ground.
No memorial exists anywhere to the 273 people (271 on board, 2 on the ground) who were killed.
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5: Lincoln Square mural
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Painted in 1991 by Lothar Speer.
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6: Bundy's house from Married With Children
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7: 2006 Taste of Lincoln Avenue festival
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Sunday, July 30, 2006. Lincoln Avenue is closed off between Wrightwood and Fullerton Avenue near DePaul University.
Note - with Bing's failed "upgrade" of their map interface in late 2010, you will need to adjust the heading on this scene to face east.
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8: Cirque du Soleil
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In the parking lot of the United Center
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9: Puerto Rican flag gateway
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'Paseo Boricua". One of two gateways over Division St. (the other is a half mile west of here).
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10: Jeff Tweedy's House
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The songwriter, musician, poet, and leader of the band "Wilco" lives here.
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11: Al Capone's Home (former)
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This is the former residence of the Chicago Mafia magnate.
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12: Rod Blagojevich's House
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This is one of the real estate holdings of the politician from the state of Illinois. A Democrat, he currently serves as governor of Illinois and previously represented parts of Chicago in the U.S. Congress. He purchased the 5-bed, 4-bath, 3,817 sq ft home in May of 1999 for $505K, according to public records.
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13: Convertible stuck in Chicago traffic
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On a hot August day on Lakeshore Drive.
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14: A car accident
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I think.
The north and south views show the same incident at later points in time.
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15: Eye Care Center Indian
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Muffler man-type figure holds a sign for the eye care center. Seen in the movie "Wayne's World".
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16: Steve Wilkos' House
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The television personality lives here. He is a former Marine and Chicago police officer. He is now hosting his own talk show, "The Steve Wilkos Show". He is best known as the former director of security on "The Jerry Springer Show".
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17: Penny Pritzker's house
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Penny Pritzker is an American business executive, and a member of the Pritzker family of Chicago, one of America's wealthiest families. She is the founder and current Chair of Classic Residence by Hyatt, a chain of luxury senior living communities spread throughout the United States, and the national finance chair of Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
On November 19, 2008, Reuters via CNN reported that "multiple sources" claim that Penny Pritzker is Barack Obama's top choice for Commerce Secretary.
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18: Barack Obama's Garbage Can
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19: Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower)
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Willis Tower, formerly named Sears Tower, is a 108-story 1,451 feet (442 m) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of its completion in 1973, it was the tallest building in the world, surpassing the World Trade Center towers in New York. Currently, Willis Tower is the tallest building in the United States and the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the world as well as the fifth tallest building in the world to the roof.
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20: Darnell Donerson's House (Jennifer Hudson Family Home)
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The Hudsons, who insisted on not allowing their 27-year-old daughter's (Jennifer Hudson) fame to alter their lives, lived in this 3-story white house bookended by vacant lots. On 10/24/2008, the singer's 57-year-old mother, and 29-year-old brother, Jason, were shot dead inside this home.
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21: Ryan Dempster's House
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The professional baseball player owns this residence.
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22: Airplane approaching Chicago O'hare
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23: Jennifer Aniston
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On a billboard for smartwater.
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24: Concert in Grant Park
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25: Pink Castle
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Par-King Skill Golf
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26: Abandoned rail viaduct
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28: Joe Trohman's House
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The lead guitarist for the Chicago-based band Fall Out Boy lives here. This home was featured on MTV Cribs.
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29: Joan Cusack's House (former)
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The Academy Award-nominated actress and comedian lived here until August 2007.
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30: House from the movie Lake House
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The 2,000-square-foot structure was built for the film on the banks of 55-acre, man-made Maple Lake in the Palos Forest Preserve, at 95th near Archer. To avoid interfering with the ice fishing that’s one of the lake’s major winter attractions, construction didn’t start until February 2005. The local engineering firm of McDonough Associates and the film’s production designer, Nathan Crowley, had to design the project so it could be completed in just ten weeks. Nearly 100 carpenters, welders, and painters were required to meet the deadline. To accommodate the film crew and its equipment, the house had to support up to 100 pounds per square foot, about double the standard for a typical residence. Thirty-five tons of steel were used in its frame, which had to be engineered to resist movement under strong spring winds that could crack the large panes of glass. And it had to be done without diagonal bracing, rejected by Crowley because it would have obstructed camera angles.
To speed things up the house— ostensibly built in the lake, on stilts—was actually built beside the lake, on land. A temporary dam was constructed, and behind it nearly 1,200 cubic feet of soil excavated, to a depth of 20 feet. A steel foundation was put in place, then concrete footing was poured for ten-foot-high steel supports, and the building was fabricated on top. When it was finished, the dam was removed, water flooded in, and the lake was brought to the house.
A year later, about the time of the film’s release, the Lake House’s exceptional engineering got it named a finalist in the small-project category of awards handed out last month by the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois. But if you’re tempted to run out to Maple Lake to check it out for yourself, think again.
To gain approval for construction, the production team had to deal with EPA guidelines, building and zoning regulations, and interested third parties such as the Audubon Society and Friends of the Forest Preserve. Though the house quickly became something of a tourist attraction, when filming wrapped after three months it was quickly, unsentimentally dismantled. A new fishing pier now marks the site.
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31: Chicago Water Intake Cribs
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These are the water intake cribs off the Chicago shoreline in Lake Michigan, the source of much of the cities fresh water
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32: Harpo Studios
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Home of the Oprah Winfrey Show
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33: 'Chicago Spire' ground
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The Chicago Spire is a supertall skyscraper under construction in Chicago, Illinois. The skyscraper will stand taller than Chicago's Sears Tower and New York's upcoming Freedom Tower, as well as Toronto's CN Tower, to become North America's tallest free-standing structure and the world's tallest all-residential building. The building was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and is being developed by Garrett Kelleher of Shelbourne Development Group, Inc. The Chicago Spire is scheduled to be completed in 2011 with 150 floors.
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34: Roger Ebert's House
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic and screenwriter lives here.
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35: Harpo Studios
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Home of the Oprah Winfrey Show
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37: Streetview at night
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Perhaps an experiment by the SV crew. A few scenes near the intersection of E. 67th St. and S. Jeffrey Dr. are shown at night.
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38: Barack Obama's House
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This is the house the President of the United States used to live in, it is now protected by the U.S. secret service, as you can see from the street view.
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40: U505 German WWII Submarine
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The U505 German WWII Submarine, at the end of the East wing of the Museum of Science and Industry. If this map is updated, it will not be visible, as it has been moved to an underground display area.
Operating from Lorient, France, the U-505 was credited with sinking 47,000 tons of allied shipping, including three American ships. As a long-range boat based in the South Atlantic, the U-505 operated in areas such as the waters off Freetown, West Africa, the Panama Canal, Colombia, and Trinidad. During a transit to Trinidad, U-505 was surprised by a British aircraft that dropped three bombs, scoring one direct hit aft of the conning tower. After making emergency repairs, U-505 spent the next month returning home. U-505 earned the distinction of being the most heavily damaged U-boat ever to return home and re-enter service. The second of the three captains assigned to U-505 during the war committed suicide in the conning tower during a heavy depth charge attack, leaving the crew to regain control and find their own way home.
With the aid of Enigma code and radio transmission intercepts, U-505 was tracked and located near Cape Verde Islands. Task Group 22.3, consisting of the escort carrier Guadalcanal and five destroyer escorts, was sent to intercept. On June 4, 1944, after persistent hunting, the U-505 was brought to the surface with a depth charge attack from the USS Chatelain. A boarding party from the USS Pillsbury boarded the sub, secured it, and retrieved valuable documents, including code books and the Enigma machine. U-505 became the first enemy ship boarded and captured on the high seas by U.S. forces since the War of 1812.
After the initial capture, U-505 was turned over to USS Abnaki (ATF-96), an ocean going tug, for her tow. She was studied during the war and in 1946 efforts were begun to save her as a museum. Since 1954 U-505 has remained opened to the public in her dry berth exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry. She is the only surviving Type IX-C submarine in the world.
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41: Rahm Emanuel's House
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The White House Chief of Staff & his wife, Amy Rule, own this house.
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42: Bob Newhart's TV Apartment Building
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From the first Bob Newhart Show.
5901 N. Sheridan Rd., Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois, USA
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068049/locations
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43: Site of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre
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44: Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House
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45: Former Schwinn Bicycle Factory
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46: United Center
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Where the Bulls (and Blackhawks) play
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47: B&OCT Bascule Bridge
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Built in 1930.
"The B&OCT bridge, like the terminal and the tracks, has been abandoned. However, it was not dismantled and remains permanently locked in an "open" position. Because they are bascule bridges, both the B&OCT and the Air Line bridges each have a counterweight of their own, and in this case, they share a common third counterweight between them. This design allowed them to operate in unison, with an operator from the B&OCT in charge of operating both bridges. This has led to a curious historical oddity, as the CSX, successor railroad to the B&O, owns a useless bridge that it cannot abandon, because the bridge is needed to continue operating a second bridge it does not own. An uncertain but inevitable future awaits the old B&OCT bridge, as the trackage it once served will likely never be rebuilt."
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52: Kwik-E-Mart
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As a promotion for the Simpsons movie, 7-Eleven remodelled twelve stores (11 in the US, 1 in Canada) as Kwik-E-Marts. The stores sold a line of novelty Simpson's products, such as Buzz Cola, Krusty-O's cereal, and Radioactive Man comic books.
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53: Playboy Enterprises HQ
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Playboy Enterprises, Inc. is the company founded by Hugh Hefner to manage the Playboy magazine empire. It was created in 1953 as the HMH Publishing Co., Inc., then went public under the current name (NYSE: PLA, PLA.A) in 1971. Christie Hefner, the daughter of Hugh Hefner, has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Playboy Enterprises since 1981. Playboy Enterprises, Inc. occupies the 14th (Playboy.com), 15th (main) and 16th (corporate/executive) floors of 680 N. Lake Shore Drive (formerly 666 N. Lake Shore Drive) in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood.
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54: North Avenue Beach House shaped like a ship
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The steamboat-shaped North Avenue Beach House was constructed in 1938 as a WPA project. It housed a concession stand, lifeguard station, and restrooms. In 1998, it was replaced with this slightly more realistic ship.
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55: 'Cloud Gate' by Anish Kapoor
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Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park, Chicago.
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56: C-41 Nike Missile site
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57: The Original Playboy Mansion
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The original Playboy Mansion was a 70-room classicizing French brick and limestone residence in Chicago at 1340 North State Parkway, which had been built in 1899 for Dr. George Swift Isham; it was acquired by Hefner in 1959. For a period in the 1970s, Hefner divided his time between the Chicago mansion and the Mansion West, moving full time to the California mansion in 1974. The Chicago mansion boasted a brass plate on the door with the Latin inscription, Si Non Oscillas, Noli Tintinnare ("If you don't swing, don't ring").
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58: James Iha's house
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The American rock musician owns this house.
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59: Car Accident in Chicago
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60: Former Hammond Organ Factory
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61: Largest Stained Glass Window in the World
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The largest stained glass window in the world, according to The Guiness Book of World Records, resides in Resurrection Cemetery, Justice, Illinois. Pickel Studio created this window using over 22,000 square feet of faceted glass. Pickel Studio began working with the medium of faceted glass in the early 1960's. Since then the studio has created over 1,000 exciting windows and walls of glass complementing many styles of architecture.
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62: Chicago Water Tower
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The Chicago Water Tower is a Chicago, Illinois landmark in downtown Chicago along the Magnificent Mile of North Michigan Avenue. Located on the doorsteps of Loyola University Chicago, the Chicago Water Tower is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau Visitor's Welcome Center.
Popularly claimed to have been the only surviving structure after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Chicago Water Tower was built in 1869 by architect William W. Boyington. While it was one of the few buildings within the fire district to survive, much of the city south of the Chicago River survived, including the home of Catherine O'Leary, in whose barn the fire is reputed to have begun.
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63: World map
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Appears to be on a playground of some sort.
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64: 'Cloud Gate' by Anish Kapoor
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Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park, Chicago.
The sculpture is shaped like an ellipse, and its legume-like appearance has caused it to be nicknamed “the Bean”. It is made of 168 highly polished stainless steel plates, and stands at 33 feet high, 66 feet long, and 42 feet wide, weighing 110 tons. From a distance it looks like a huge drop of liquid mercury, while up close it is highly reflective, capturing the skyline, the downtown cityscape and the warped images of passers-by. The artist, Anish Kapoor, has referred to the sculpture as “a gate to Chicago, a poetic idea about the city it reflects”.
The sculpture is like a fun-house mirror, reflecting and dislocating people's images. The artist has transformed the sculpture's two-dimensional physical structure into three-dimensional space. This effect is most dramatic in the 12-foot underbelly (which the artist refers to as the "omphalos" or navel), where people's reflections are multiplied in the vortex.
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65: O'hare International Airport (ORD)
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O'hare International Airport. That is a lot of planes to see at once. Scan around.
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66: Car S** on Google Street View – So Busted!
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67: Rooftop seats across the street from Wrigley Field
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Buildings beyond Wrigley Field's outfield walls provide a view of Chicago Cubs baseball games from their rooftops.
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68: Louis Farrakhan's Garbage Cans
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70: Concert Stage in Soldier Field
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71: Navy Pier
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Entertainment Complex at Navy Pier, Chicago. Bonus: Just north is Chicago's sewage treatment plant.
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73: 'Short Cut' by Elmgreen and Dragset
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In Short Cut, Elmgren and Dragset give the illusion that a car and camper trailer have driven straight through the center of the earth and emerged in the Galleria Vittoria Emmanuele in Milan (for Universal Experience, Short Cut was installed on the MCA plaza). Their whimsical and nostalgic sculpture evokes family road trips with the family but also implies uncharted regions we have yet to explore in this era of globalization.
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74: Bill Grimshaw's House
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Bill Grimshaw, a political science professor, and Jacky Grimshaw, the vice president of policy at the Center for Neighborhood Technology and a former aide to Mayor Harold Washington have listed this home for sale. It is situated directly next to President Obama’s Chicago residence.
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75: 'Ganz Grosse Geister (Big Spirits XL)' by Thomas Schutte
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Ganz Grosse Geister (Big Spirits XL), 2004
Enamel on cast aluminum
Three figures, each: 16 ft. high (4.9 m)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Edlis/Neeson Art Acquisition Fund.
2005.1
With these giant effigies of amorphous beings that recall the rotund icon of travel guides, the Michelin man, Schütte challenges statuary traditions, giving mass and presence to vaporous beings. The three chimeric figures reflect a world of imagination, filled with aliens, ghosts, and goblins.
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76: 'Batcolumn' by Claes Oldenburg
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Batcolumn, 1977
Steel and aluminum painted with polyurethane enamel
96 ft. 8 in. (29.5 m) high x 9 ft. 9 in. (3 m) diameter, on base 4 ft. (1.2 m) high x 10 ft. (3.1 m) diameter
Harold Washington Social Security Center, 600 West Madison Street, Chicago
Photo by Attilio Maranzano
Fabricated by Lippincott, Inc., North Haven, Connecticut. Engineer: J. Robert Jennings
Commissioned March 1975 by the Art in Architecture Program of the United States General Services Administration in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts
Installed April 13, 1977
Inaugurated April 14, 1977
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77: Chicago City Hall Green Roof
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78: Route 66 Begins
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The current site near the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago where Route 66 begins for west-bound travelers (and ends one block south for east-bound travelers).
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79: Site of Old Comiskey Park
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80: The Depot Diner
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Where do you go if you want to have an open-faced turkey sandwich made with carved freshly roasted turkey, with homemade mashed potatoes, gravy and cranberry relish, a delicious pot roast sandwich, apple pancakes that have a slice of apple cooked inside, or freshly made cinnamon sugar donuts with a warm mocha dipping sauce? If your first guess is mom’s or grandma’s house, you’d only be partially right... you can have these delicious homemade dishes, and much more, anytime at the Depot American Diner.
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82: 'Crown Hall' by Mies van der Rohe
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on the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
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83: Chicago Stockyards Gate
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84: Danny Bonaduce's House (former)
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The actor, radio host and reality show star, sold this home in 1995 for $278,500.
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85: John Ratzenberger's Made In America RV
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John Ratzenberger's Made in America brings you the stories of the best people, places and products in the United States. He honors the men and women who work with their hands and skillfully make products that are the backbone of the American economy.
John spent weeks on the road meeting Americans who make things, who invent stuff, who get up at four in the morning to build what our country needs.
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86: Agfa logo on roof
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There is also a Target logo on a roof to the SW. In that parking lot there is a Krispy Kreme donut store with a logo on its roof too but you can hardly make out that logo in Google Maps (much clearer in Google Earth.)
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87: 'Lincoln Park Residence' by Tadao Ando
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88: Entering Chicago's Union Station
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A whole slew of railroad tracks leading into Chicago's Union Station. Metra & Amtrak service the area.
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89: Buckingham Fountain
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Fountain from 'Married with Children'
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92: Hill Street Blues
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Part of the title sequence of Hill Street Blues, shows the Maxwell Street Precinct House. It is located at the junction of Maxwell Street and Morgan Street in Chicago.
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93: 'Pfanner House' by Zoka Zola
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94: Dorothy & Toto Statue in Oz Park
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95: Illinois River System Draw Bridge
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96: HawkQuarters
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Official store of the Chicago Blackhawks located on Michigan Avenue.
On display in the storefront are jerseys for the highly anticipated Blackhawk rookies for the 2007-08 season, Patrick Kane (88) and Jonathan Toews (19).
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98: 'Pritzker Pavilion' by Frank Gehry
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The principal signature of Millennium Plaza is the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, a band shell designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry with 4,000 fixed seats plus additional lawn seating for 7,000. A Pritzker Architecture Prize honoree and National Medal of Arts winner, Gehry designed such landmarks as the Guggenheim Museum at Bilbao, Der Neue Zollhof in Düsseldorf and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Characteristic of Gehry, the Pritzker Pavilion consists of massive panels of stainless steel resembling the graceful blooming of a flower or the unfurling sails of a massive ship.
The Pritzker Pavilion is the home of the Grant Park Music Festival, the nation's only remaining free, municipally-supported, outdoor, classical music series. The Festival is presented by the Chicago Park District and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. (Source: www.grantparkmusicfestival.com) Winding eastward from Pritzker Pavilion is the only bridge in the world designed by Frank Gehry. The 925 foot pedestrian bridge, made of the same steel as the bandshell with a hardwood deck, winds like a fluttering ribbon across nearby Columbus Drive, from the bandshell to a section of Grant Park along the lakefront.
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99: Biograph Theater
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The location where bank robber John Dillinger was shot by the FBI on July 22, 1934.
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