Chicago!

November 28, 2011 by jimmycsays

We just returned from Thanksgiving Day weekend in Chicago.

The highlights were being with our friends, Edie and Paul in Downer’s Grove; bringing our daughter Brooks back to Kansas City after a four-month stay there; and visiting the fabulous Art Institute of Chicago.

Here, for your back-to-work-day enjoyment, are some of the visual highlights of our visit.

Paul, Brooks and our son Charlie under "The Bean" at Millennium Park

Aon Center (formerly the Standard Oil Building), center, and other majestic, skyline buildings (Millennium Park is in the foreground.)

The lions that flank the Michigan Avenue entrance to the Art Institute are sporting holiday manes

Paul and Patty (Mrs. JimmyC), inspect an exhibit

Brooks and Edie, across the atrium

If only Rembrandt could see this look

Along Michigan Avenue

Felicitous facade

A dollop of sun

Who is that skulking in the vestibule?

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Here’s a photo post script, just for Smartman. (See comment below.)

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13 Responses

on November 28, 2011 at 6:13 am chuck

What a nice family!

I love Chicago, nice pics!
- on November 28, 2011 at 9:23 am jimmycsays
  
  Thanks, Chuck. Regrettably, we only had a few hours downtown. I would like to have spent a couple of days there.
on November 28, 2011 at 9:16 am kaler

falicitous?
on November 28, 2011 at 9:23 am jimmycsays

Nope…Look it up.
on November 28, 2011 at 5:02 pm Lisa Round

Love it, Jim – thanks for sharing – here’s to a joyous holiday season from our house to yours!
on November 28, 2011 at 5:33 pm jimmycsays

Thanks, Lisa. Meet me at 127th and Pflumm.
on November 30, 2011 at 8:40 am smartman

Fitz! No pics of Portillo’s?
on November 30, 2011 at 3:30 pm smartman

God Bless Ya Fitz! Nothing like Portillo’s or Buona Beef in a pinch to warm a man’s mind, body and soul. Thanks!
on November 30, 2011 at 3:53 pm jimmycsays

To tell you the truth, Smartman, I’d never heard of Portillo’s. I really don’t get that many opportunities to hang in Chicago. But the next time I’m there, to Portillo’s I go!
on December 1, 2011 at 9:50 am smartman

Fitz, Portillo’s is to Chicago what Gates and Bryants are to KC. Not the healthiest place to eat but the dogs, ribs and Italian beef are BIBLICALLY good. The downtown location is as good of place to people watch as Central Park or Venice Beach.
on December 2, 2011 at 8:50 pm Peg

I didn’t know Portillo’s, either, but the introduction in the book Beyond the Phog by Jason King (which I won as a door prize at last night’s KCPress Holiday bash) begins with an interivew of Sherron Collins at Portillo’s.
on December 5, 2011 at 10:50 am chuck

smartman is right.

I ate there in July. Yummy!!

Chicago is great.
on December 6, 2011 at 6:05 pm John Altevogt

We go to Chicago and stay downtown just so we can go to the Art Museum. You can spend days in there. And, the beauty of it is that we also have a very nice art museum in Kansas City. If you’ve never been there, you have missed a fantastic opportunity.