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On this page I want to put those pictures I took during the year that were not in conjunction with a particular trip or event.
I moved into Eugenie Square last October, when Ed Shuping proposed sharing an apartment with me here. (He was taking a government job that would require him to travel in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illnois quite a bit, and wanted a place to stay when he wasn't on the road.)
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This photo is a relatively current one (as I create this page in 2019), although the building really hasn't changed much in 45 years. The apartment that we were the first to rent is on the southwest corner of the building, on the 36th floor. Our balcony is on the south side of the building, the living room has south and west windows, and the bedrooms have west windows.
So the living room has fantastic views of downtown Chicago, all of which is south of the building. From the balcony, we can see in every direction but north. So that makes it a great place for picture taking, and all the pictures on this page were taken from there.
The building and the apartment are much, much nicer than my first apartment on Barry Street or my second one on Aldine. The apartment is bigger and newer, and of course being 36 floors up has views that are unparalleled. I think I am just high enough so that while the views are expansive, I haven't lost the "scale" of the city around me.
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In the city of Chicago, every 800 numbers is one mile, so you can also tell that I am two miles north of the center of town, and a little over two miles from the Bank. (Midwest cities, being much newer than their east coast counterparts, had the opportunity when they were laid out to establish systems like this. Also, because cities in the Midwest are newer, more of them are laid out in grids than are the cities of the east and southeast.)
Eugenie Square is at the southwest corner of Lincoln Park, which begins a 7-mile greenspace that runs all the way north to Hollywood Boulevard. It is Chicago's largest park, one of the largest in the country, and it preserves eight miles of lakefront for public use. My two previous apartments were each less than two blocks from this park, but here, all I have to do is walk out the front door of the building and cross Clark Street and I am in the park.
Eugenie Square is also right next to Old Town Chicago, an area of bars, restaurants, and comedy clubs (including Chicago's famous Second City). There is always something going on in this very lively area.
Seeing as how I have an excellent view to the west, sunsets are easy to photograph. Here are two of them:
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Southeast of Eugenie Square is a large development known as Sanburg Village, and beyond that to the southeast is the Miracle Mile (Michigan Avenue) and the iconic John Hancock Building. I took a couple of pictures from my balcony looking southeast and south, and I have merged them together into a panoramic view. Here is downtown Chicago at sunset as seen from my balcony:
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Of course, I can see in every direction but north from the apartment. Probably the least inspiring view, though, is the view to the southwest.
One evening, I brought my camera out onto the balcony, along with my tripod, to try to take some nighttime views of downtown Chicago. I experimented with various f-stops and exposure times, and did get a few pictures that turned out well. Here are two of them:
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I noticed something about the daytime and nighttime pictures that I took of downtown; two of them seemed to overlay quite nicely, and so I decided to create a night-to-day transition. Below you'll see Chicago at night; just hover your mouse pointer on the image below and watch the sun come up:
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