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| Downtown Chicago
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| The castellated Old Chicago Water Tower.
| The Chicago Avenue Pumping Station, across the street from the Water
Tower.
| I like the decorations on this nearby red skyscraper.
| A typical look down Michigan Avenue. It's easy to see why I say the city
feels like New York.
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| Di Yin soaring in front of another distinctive building, the
InterContinental Chicago.
| A close-up of the bas relief on the aforementioned building.
| The intricately-sculpted gothic bottom of the Chicago Tribune Tower.
| Similarly elaborate details can be found in the flying buttresses at top.
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| Pieces of other famous buildings are embedded all around in the
building's stone walls. These famous buildings range from the cathedral
of notre dame and the world trade center (both shown) to the sydney
opera house and the great wall of china. This could be the site of a
great Game clue.
| Wrigley Building, across the street from the Tribune Tower.
Incidentally, the clock faces are almost twenty feet across.
| On a curved staircase along the Chicago River, Di Yin photographed some
ducks (not visible).
| The buildings on The-Loop side of the Chicago River, as seen from the
River-North side. It's a pretty city.
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| Another view down Michigan Avenue, this time within the loop.
| A mural that must've taken some work and danger to paint.
| Di Yin in front of The Bean, more properly known as Cloud Gate.
| Ditto. Di Yin's pose reminds me of one of those five-limbed jigsaw puzzle
pieces.
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| Lunch at Russian Tea Time
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| We had lunch at the Russian Tea Time restaurant.
Di Yin took pictures of everything at lunch, so I only decided to take
this one picture of the addictive dark onion bread. I'd been to this
restaurant once years before and generally liked the food, and my mind
still clearly remembered the bread. The bread was just as good this
time, and I enjoyed the rest of the dishes even more.
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I had a plate of Russian dumplings ("pelmeni") containing beef and onions.
Moist and flavorful, I found the accompanying garlic yogurt and sour cream
unnecessary. Very good.
The dumplings came with a good, refreshing
carrot salad.
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Di Yin had a Uzbek soup, "domlama": simultaneously complex and hearty
(lots of vegetables), yet light and healthy. Quite good.
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| The Art Institute of Chicago
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| The Art Institute of
Chicago.
| The exhibit on frames and windows had pieces from or models of famous
buildings. I photographed these windows because they reminded me of
Mondrian.
| Two elevator grilles once used in the (now demolished) Chicago Stock
Exchange building. They make me think about atomic structures.
| Details about the aforementioned grilles.
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| Renoir's Two Sisters (On The Terrace).
| Daumier made caricatures of French notables.
| Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier's strikingly life-like Bust of Saïd
Abdallah of the Darfour.
| Details.
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Cordier's Bust of an African Venus looks similarly true to African
physiognomy.
For details, see the previous picture.
| Gérôme's Chariot Race.
| Eckersberg's The Cloisters, San Lorenzo Fuori le Mura: soft, worn
colors (but in a good way).
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| Turner's Valley of Aosta: Snowstorm, Avalanche, and Thunderstorm.
| | Another Turner: Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish.
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Four large, impressive canvases by Hubert Robert of Roman scenes dominated
the corners of one room. For scale, notice the person in the bottom-left.
This one is The Fountains.
| | Hubert Robert's The Landing Place.
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