Quickie: Landscaping the Eisenhower/Blue Line?

Just a quick note -- We hear that there is some preliminary work being done to investigate the possibility of landscaping the Blue Line in the median of the Eisenhower Expressway (I-290).

We don't know if this will mean simply adding plants in the gravel and dirt areas that the trains aren't using, or if it means adding some kind of deck over the rail line with a park.

When we know more, you'll know more.

Laying Out the Inside on the Outside

Google's aerial photographs of different nooks and crannies of the world have occasionally turned up some peculiar things. One of them is in Chicago.

In the Illinois Medical District, on the northwest corner of Ashland and Harrison -- the site where Rush University is putting up a new hospital is a life-sized blueprint showing offices, hallways, columns, and stairwells.

We don't know if this was for a training exercise, or for actually laying out the real building.  But it's still a local curiosity revealed by the all-seeing eye of the Google bird.