Chicago Architecture Foundation

After touring the Chicago River Museum, I grabbed a quick lunch at McDonald’s by the Wrigley Building, then headed south on Michigan Avenue. It was raining hard, and the further I walked, the harder it came down. The day before, I had searched the Internet for places to go in case it rained. The Chicago Architecture Foundation has a couple rooms filled with displays, including a scale model of downtown. After I exhaust my attempt to gain an appreciation of art, I’m thinking of taking a stab at learning about architecture, so this seemed like an ideal place to hole up.

When I finally arrived, I squelched my way through the gift shop into the display area where I saw this:

The outer edge of the display pointed out quirky and interesting buildings or explained historical details about Chicago. Since I had nowhere else to go, I took my time and studied it all as I dried off. To give a sense of the scale, the Sears Tower is three feet tall, a car (if there were any) would be as long as a pencil is wide and a human would be the size of a flea.

I spent the better part of an hour here, then browsed the bookstore noting books I’ll want to look at if I ever study architecture and writing them down in a little notebook which I promptly lost. It was now about 2:30, the rain had subsided to a light drizzle and my degree of wetness had gone from “fully immersed” to “generally damp.”

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