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It has been 180 years since Chicago incorporated as a city, and what a city it is! Being 180 years old is considered young for those of you in other parts of the world where your buildings or monuments date back hundreds and hundreds of …
I recently had the pleasure of teaching a group of teens in The Explorers Program, whose goal is to teach skills to live life and create impact. Right now, they are learning photography through guest photographers from various genres, and I was to focus on urban …
Seems odd to say this but, for the first Winter in a long time, Chicago seems to be the place to be in the U.S. if you want to escape the snowy blizzards of the East Coast or the storms and dangerous mudslides of the West Coast. What …
Not having been born and raised a Chicagoan, I’m often asked ‘What do you love most about Chicago?’
Today, I made a retail clerk smile and look at her job differently. How? I started talking about how I had left my camera at home and was desperately wishing I could take photos of her makeup/perfume counter displays. She asked ‘why?’ with a suspicious …
In the early part of 2013, I was witness to an incredible historic occurrence in Chicago and my friend, colleague and fellow tour operator, Margaret of Chicago Elevated, heard what I had done. She asked me to write a guest blog post for her Website …
I decided to find new workspace the other day. I went to Chicago’s awesome Harold Washington Library to do some work on a project. {Fun Fact: It is the largest public library, in square footage, in the world.} After a couple of hours, I finished …
This past Sunday in Chicago was a strange weather day. In my part of the city, it was quite brisk compared to 24 hours earlier. It was also completely overcast. In fact, the puffy clouds that took over the sky displayed an array of colors …