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After a nice lazy day around the house, I finally got off my butt and went for a nice walk. I realized that I had my cameraphone with me and my Flickr account, so it was time for a little photo fun. I present you with a short tour of the north side of Chicago, specifically the Albany Park and Lincoln Square neighborhoods… |
A view down the Chicago River from the Lawrence Avenue Bridge.
A small Mexican store down the way…
Never heard of him, but at least you know where to get his CD!
A nice bit of architecture to help mark the streets.
To go with your Mexican and Middle-Eastern, you have your Greek bakery.
…and German, too! (Can you hear the oompah bands?)
Kempf Plaza in Lincoln Square. Just a nice tranquil urban space.
The view under the El
Incoming train on its way to the Loop.
A view down Western Avenue from the El station. Man, this really shows the limitations of a cameraphone.
Maybe next time I’ll bring our digital camera and get some decent pictures. But this was a fun first try, and it was a delightful walk.
Fun! Thanks for the tour. :>
I haven’t done anything like this for my neighborhood, despite my having lived here for over 15 months. Maybe I should!
S’not bad, considering it’s a phone. Now that it’s nice enough to walk around without sixteen layers of clothes, I’ll have to pick up my Canon and start snapping. Last time I was out, the motorized lens froze up.. because of the cold.
-MtR
Rock on… Great pictures of the n-hood 🙂
more!
Nostalgia! We lived near Lawrence and Ashland for 14 years before moving out here to the exurbian end of McHenry County. I don’t regret the move, toward the end of that time the noise and the general congestion were making me crazy. But there are certainly advantages to being in that area.
Disadvantages too. I couldn’t have my sweet horses there.
I’m afraid if we want to stay in this area, we’re going to either have to move north or further west… since I want horses. 🙂
Yeah, you have to get pretty far out. McHenry Co. has a lot of horses and horse facilities, but the taxes are much too high and the development race to turn it all into concrete is in full swing. That means land prices are skyrocketing. Boone County is still good though, and there’s lots of room in Wisconsin.
That last picture just makes my neck tense up. Every day at 5.15p you’ll find me stuck in traffic at one of those lights. On days I go in early, I can make it to work in 15 minutes, but during any portion of rush-hours those two lights, and the two lights south of there double my commute. For those not from the area it’s a major bus terminal as well as train station and there’s one of Chicago’s truly-messed 6-way intersections just north of there.
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Some urban planner tried to tame a six-way intersection by adding parks and forcing everyone heading South-East or North-West to merge with everyone heading South or North, a block away from the intersection. So you’ve got an entire extra street’s worth of people squeezing their way into traffic, and then giving them only a block in which to cut you off and cross two lanes. It works even worse than it sounds.
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You’re making me look bad. 🙂
Hrrm. I’ve lived in this neighborhood for like seven years and haven’t gotten around to doing something like this. I’ll have to fix that and see what I can add to this…
Anyway, it looks like it was a nice walk. Let me know if you’d like to go on a walk around the area some time.