Today we started by visiting the University of Chicago. (The trip there was not fun, by the way, with the university located in the middle of a pretty rouch area.) It was nice to just stroll around and enjoy the beautiful buildings. Especially the gothic style buildings of the main quadrangle. In addition to the quadrangle, we checked out Bond Chapel, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel (pictured below), and Regenstein Library.
Right off campus, we visited Robie House which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The amazing exterior has recently been renovated but the inside still is in pretty poor condition. Our tour guide said they're aiming to have everything finished by 2010. Interesting bit of trivia: As you may know, Wright is famous for using long horizontal lines to make his buildings appear organic. To accomplish this goal, he used pigmented mortar for all the vertical spaces between bricks.
Next we headed to the 95th floor lounge at the John Hancock building for its great view of the city.
For dinner, we went to Lou Malinati's Pizzeria. I think it wins the battle versus Giordano's. The best thing, though, is that they had Eli's Cheesecake! The original was stellar.
After dinner we planned to go to Kingston Mines, a blues club. That plan was dashed when we (Jenise) lost our keys. We never found them. A few hours later, we were able to get in but were too fatigued to go out again. Since Jenise's brother doesn't have an extra set of keys and his roommate is going to be gone during the day, we're home ridden for our last half-day here. Oh well. I think we've done plenty in a relatively short amount of time.
Right off campus, we visited Robie House which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The amazing exterior has recently been renovated but the inside still is in pretty poor condition. Our tour guide said they're aiming to have everything finished by 2010. Interesting bit of trivia: As you may know, Wright is famous for using long horizontal lines to make his buildings appear organic. To accomplish this goal, he used pigmented mortar for all the vertical spaces between bricks.Next we headed to the 95th floor lounge at the John Hancock building for its great view of the city.
For dinner, we went to Lou Malinati's Pizzeria. I think it wins the battle versus Giordano's. The best thing, though, is that they had Eli's Cheesecake! The original was stellar.After dinner we planned to go to Kingston Mines, a blues club. That plan was dashed when we (Jenise) lost our keys. We never found them. A few hours later, we were able to get in but were too fatigued to go out again. Since Jenise's brother doesn't have an extra set of keys and his roommate is going to be gone during the day, we're home ridden for our last half-day here. Oh well. I think we've done plenty in a relatively short amount of time.
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Just wanted to correct you real quick: those were my keys Jenise lost. Thanks sis.
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