Slice of Life: Pools and Rivers

On this damp day (back in October), no one was interested in swimming in the East Bank Club's rooftop pools (500 North Kingsbury).  And no one in their right mind would think about swimming in the North Branch of the Chicago River just next door.  But the Hudson River is now clean enough for people to swim around Manhattan.  Maybe in our lifetimes, we'll see a beach in downtown Chicago like the one in Paris.  Maybe at Wolf Point?  I wonder what it would take to make that happen.

Status Update: The Parc Huron

The Parc Huron (469 West Huron Street) continues to climb into the sky in the burgeoning former warehouse district that is River North.  Interesting use of balconies as texture.  Hopefully they won't end up festooned with tacky out-of-season Christmas lights like some trailer park in the sky.  You'd be surprised which brand new buildings that's already happened to.

Slice of Life: Bubble Wrapping Cars

OK, so it's not exactly bubble wrap, but it looks like construction crews working on a new residential building at the corner of North Kingsbury Street and West Huron Street in River North were nice enough to cover a group of parked cars, presumably to protect them from dust and bits of concrete from the work zone.

Of course, for all we know, those cars could belong to the construction workers and they're just taking advantage of restricted parking spaces.