Windy City Weekend
I was out and about in the city over the weekend, primarily to attend a presentation by Raymond Lotta on Re-envisioning Revolution and Communism. Unfortunately I missed most of the talk due to having to work unexpectedly, but the Q&A afterward was great and I had a chance to have a number of good conversations afterward, as well as through the night and the next day. The sky was so clear on Saturday that I could see the Sears Tower from north of Skokie as I was driving in to the city! I took a few pics for a friend of mine, some of which came out fairly well so I may as well put em up here 
Traffic was kind of shitty, guess the whole Easter thing had people traveling:
Here’s a view of the skyline and Sears Tower from much closer in than Skokie. I wish I could have taken a pic of the Tower from way out when I first saw it coming in, it must have been close to 20 miles away!
This is an interesting shot I happened to get of the federal detention center - MCC - in front of the Sears Tower. The MCC is the tan, triangular building to the right in the pic:
This is the John Hancock building from Lake Shore Drive:
This is a pretty cool pic I got of the L:
Here’s the Art Institute. I gave a homeless dude $5 out front, and some change to another dude who asked, and after that another guy comes up to me and tries to scam me into buying a copy of The Onion newspaper from him 
Then this is the “bean” in front of the Frank Gehry bandshell in Millenium Park:
That’s me in the bean, obviously And this last one is a pic from underneath the bean looking up inside of it, which is amazingly surreal:
