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Navy Pier 

Navy Pier, residing near Streeterville, is the largest pier on Lake Michigan close to downtown Chicago.
It was originally known as the Municipal Pier #2, and was one of the two piers included in Daniel Burnham’s 1909 original Chicago plan. The second pier was never built. Construction for Navy Pier started in May 1914, and completed  in 1916 when it was opened to the public. At the time it was the world’s largest pier, stretching 292 ft wide and 3000ft long. The pier was originally built for shipping and as an entertainment area. In its first ten years, Navy Pier successfully attracted both visitors and ships. It was also sometimes used as a military facility during the first world war. Today Navy Pier hosts a vast array of world renoun attractions, supplies hundreds of jobs for the community, and serves as a valuable source of revenue for the city of Chicago.

Getting Around Town

Chicago Photographs

Trump Tower from my office window in Chicago,
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Downtown Chicago from the 18th Street bridge near the train yards.

Chicago Posters

Lincoln Park Zoo
Lincoln Park began as a small public cemetery on the north side of Chicago. Victims of cholera and small pox were buried in shallow lakeside graveson the land which now represents this zoo. Citizens began demanding that the cemetery be converted to parkland in the mid 1850’s. In compliance, the city reserved a 60-acre section of the cemetery as Lake Park.
After Abraham Lincoln death, the park was renamed in his honor. The city allocated $10,000 for improvements to help implemented the park’s first plan. A donation of swans from New York’s Central Park marked the beginnings of the Lincoln Park Zoo. Sone after, Chicago citizens argued for the removal of the remaining burial ground. This contributed to a larger parks movement, and in 1869, the state legislature created three park districts: the South, West, and Lincoln Park Commissions, each responsible for the parks and boulevards in its region.
Under the direction of the Lincoln Park Commission, bodies were exhumed and relocated to other cemeteries, and the park was expanded south to North Avenue and north to Diversey Parkway. Severe winter storms in 1885 resulted in the construction of a breakwater system which included the first of many landfill projects extending Lincoln Park’s boundaries.

Soldier Field Demolition and Re-Construction Pictures

Fun little page displaying the 1971 Chicago Cubs with autographs

Visit the page to zoom in on the line-up

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