They cried as thirst-quenching snow, 
The Chicago River, dyed green on Saturday, March 14, for the St. Patrick's Day Parade.
Happy St. Patty's Day!
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The likeness of Mister T peers out of a window made to look smashed out, in a building in downtown Chicago. I took this photo on March 14, 2009 from the Sky-Line Club at 307 N. Michigan Avenue.
The Carbide and Carbon Building, 230 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago. I took this photo on May 23, 2008.
This is one of my favorite buildings in Chicago. Dark green in color (often mistaken for black), with genuine gold leafing. Construction completed in 1929, it stands just south of the Chicago River, a stone's throw south of the Chicago Tribune Tower.
Read more about the building at ChicagoArchitecture.info.
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A pigeon enjoys a free CTA train ride on Christmas Day, 2006. (The humans on board had to pay full fare.)
N. Clark Street, Rogers Park on Chicago's northeast side. (Click images to enlarge)
The stretch of Clark from W. Devon north to W. Howard is heavily Latino, and there are a number of restaurants along those blocks worth trying. The street has no shortage of laundromats, legal help offices, taquerias, liquor stores, interesting discount shops and a surprising number of fair to excellent Asian restaurants. It's a photographer's dream.
Every block holds some kind of visual reward. Colorful here, drab there, shiny and new to broken and abandoned, N. Clark Street is a street you should visit.
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Alderman Joe Moore reaches out to a voter - as the voter sits in a polling booth - during the April 2007 aldermanic run-off election in the 49th Ward. This is a clear violation of election law.
At 10:30 this morning (March 10), Moore and two other aldermen will stage a cheap media stunt at City Hall, 2nd Floor. Moore, Toni Preckwinkle and Ricardo Munoz will pretend to want more honesty in government. Their March 9 press release says:
"The ongoing parade of political scandals at the federal state and local level have increased the deep public cynicism about the honesty and integrity of those elected to public service. Adding to this cynicism at the local level is the legal provision that exempts City Council members and their staffs from the investigatory oversight of the City of Chicago Inspector General. Alderman Moore and his colleagues will present a proposed ordinance that removes the exemption and provides additional measures to strengthen the Inspector General’s independence."
You mean like illegally talking to a voter while she's voting? Or like leaning on developers for campaign donations? That kind of stuff?
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Millennium Park, March 4, 2009 - A Zamboni ice resurfacing machine does its work on the skating rink in downtown Chicago. The Bean is in the background, over the Park Grill.
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An Obama supporter sits on a sidewalk in downtown Chicago, wondering when the Gubmint will confiscate the homes and money of the oppressive taxpayers and give it all to him.
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Does that look like "fresh paint" to you?
Seen on the platform of the Morse CTA Red Line station Chicago's north side, February 20, 2009.
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Are they an invasive species? A mutation of the grays? Imported from Canada? According to Chicago Wilderness Magazine, "In the Midwest, as far as has been determined, all of the black squirrels are actually morphs of the gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis." For more about black squirrels, see "Rogers Park: Home to Black Squirrels."
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Sept. 28, 2008: Rogers Park Garden Group annual sidewalk sale and membership drive at W. Jarvis and N. Greenview.
Loyola University, looking south along Lake Michigan from the north end of the school's lakeshore campus on Chicago's north side.
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Photo by T.H.Mannis
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A woman sunbathes in Lincoln Park during the 2008 Chicago Air Show.
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Photo by T.H.Mannis
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Shadows in an alley
Chicago, 2008
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Clouds over Loyola Beach, Chicago
Summer 2008
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We're starting a new feature. With the unoriginal name "Photo du Jour," we'll slap a picture up for your visual entertainment. Today's photo du jour was taken at Loyola Beach on Chicago's north side, Sept. 7, 2008. I got lucky with those clouds over the tree. (Click to enlarge)
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North Clark Street in Rogers Park, Chicago.