September 15: One last photo from our recent pilgrimage to the annual jazz festival in Chicago’s Millennium Park. This performance was by Israel’s Anat Cohen (a graduate of Boston’s Berklee School of Music) and her siblings. My kind of cool.
September 14: The Willis Tower in Chicago. At 108 stories and 1,451 feet, it is the tallest skyscraper in the U.S. Formerly known as the Sears Tower, its observation deck was used for a scene in the 1986 movie, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Watched it again on DVD the other day — it can still make me laugh.
September 13: The view from Navy Pier seen on an early morning walk with Dorette Kerian a couple of weeks ago. The John Hancock Center no longer is the tallest skyscraper in Chicago but remains my favorite. During my student days 50 years ago, it was under construction as I trudged by the site on my way to Northwestern’s Chicago campus.
September 12: Chicago’s Union Station in Chicago photographed a few days ago.
September 10: Street chess on Michigan Avenue.
September 9: Party time last week on the Chicago lakefront. Sadly, they didn’t invite us to join in.
September 8: Photo taken with my iPhone at the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the great museums of the world. Dorette and I were there for a couple of hours last week during a break from the nearby jazz festival in Millennium Park. The painting is Gustave Caillebotte’s “Paris Street; Rainy Day,” created in 1877 and acquired by the Institute in 1964, a year before I arrived in town to study at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. Admission then was free, so I often stopped by. Today, it costs $25 ($16 for “seniors”) but worth every penny.
September 7: The Chicago skyline seen from Northwestern University’s Evanston campus. Photo taken Sept. 1 with a Canon SX710 HS pocket camera.
September 6: Dorette Kerian took this picture the other day as I celebrated the 50th anniversary of my graduation from one of my two alma maters, Northwestern University (the other is the University of North Dakota).
September 5: Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
September 4: What we do at the Jazz Festival in Chicago besides listen to the music.
September 3: The Chicago Hilton Hotel photographed today from the Lake front. I first stayed there when I was a University of North Dakota student, attending a conference for publication staffers.
September 2: Marina Towers in Chicago, seen from an architectural tour boat this morning. In 1980 its lower garage was used in the movie “The Hunter.” A police detective played by Steve McQueen pursued a 1979 Grand Prix to the top of the 18-story parking structure, from which the bad guy in the car plunged into the Chicago River. The stunt remains one of the most famous ever filmed.
September 1: Chicago Jazz Fest.
Bloomington, Minn., photographer Dave Vorland and Dorette Kerian recently returned home after a trip to Chicago for the annual Chicago Jazz Fest. Dave was busy snapping photos while in the Windy City, and here are some of the images he’s sharing.
