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| The Gold Coast
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| The stunning, gothic Fourth Presbyterian Church.
| Looking north along the Gold Coast shoreline from near Oak Street Beach,
one can see many tall apartment buildings overlooking the lake, crashing
waves, and a crazy jogger.
| The wide beach stretches in the opposite direction as well.
| Some of the trees near (in?) the southern edge of Hyde Park.
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The Archbishop's
Residence. How many chimneys can you count?
There are 19
total. (Not all are visible in this picture.)
| Benjamin Marshall's beaux arts building at 1550 N. State Street.
| A sample of the buildings in the Gold Coast neighborhood. You can tell
they're expensive.
| Another sample of Gold Coast homes. Looking down the left half of the
picture, I like the variety of building colors and styles. On the right,
there are fenced gardens.
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| Ah, an exterior metal spiral staircase, and I'm not in Montreal. It looks
good here.
| I could not identify this building (but it does look cool).
| The neoclassical McCormick Mansion
| The Flemish design of the Thomas W. Hinde House. I find unusual the row
of decorative balusters embedded in the wall between levels.
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I walked by the old Playboy Mansion, now converted into condos (how'd you like
to live in that building? ;) ), though I didn't bother to photograph it
because it fit in with every other nice building in the district.
| Further south within the Gold Coast neighborhood, I took another sample
photograph to convey its flavor.
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Around this time, I missed the turn I wanted on my walking tour and ended
up going five blocks toward downtown, practically into the neighborhood
called River North. There, I saw many steakhouses and music clubs.
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| Frontera Grill
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| Chili-spiced nuts and seeds, our free snack at the Mexican restaurant Frontera
Grill.
| Our appetizer of sopes (fried corn-dough shells), in this case filled
with moist shredded pork, onions, and fresh avocado, and topped with
fresh Mexican cheese, all sitting in soggy mess of canned chopped
tomatoes. (Yes, the tomatoes tasted canned. No, this wasn't an issue.)
| My mess of a dish, called "sapitos", is actually three dishes in one.
All four are on corn dough which functions roughly as a slice of potato
would. The corn dough, in turn, is on a black bean puree. Clockwise from
upper-left, the three parts are: a funky sweet and cuminy chili (not my
thing), eggs, and chicken. I made tacos of each component. The chicken
was good. The eggs and the black beans were okay.
| Di Yin's stew, "cazuela," which she described as "pretty awesome." This
says something, especially because she doesn't usually like lamb. The
salad was fairly good as well. Also, she claimed it went well the
chili-stew sauce.
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