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04-22-2008, 09:58 PM | #1 |
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Actually, for a big city, it's not that bad to navigate.
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04-23-2008, 01:42 AM | #2 | ||||
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But Brianna, Bruce is right about the navigation. There is a relatively uninterrupted north-south & east-west grid laid over the whole flat town, as you can see in the great pic. Plus, Chicago is shaped kinda like a semicircle, and the expressways and several other major roads are "spokes" radiating in all directions from the hub near the Loop. Many of the "diagonal" roads follow the old Indian trails, which themselves often paralleled Lake Michigan or one of the few waterways that break up the modern grid. So, even without a map it's easy to feel your way around in a general way. For example, Buckrogers is eventually leaving Wrigleyville after celebrating a Cubs loss and wants to get to the Kennedy Expressway, which is not nearby. First, he's got to remember where he parked his car, because parking in Wrigleyville is terrible, and it seems like more and more of the residential streets have parking by permit only, so you end up a mile away from Wrigley. But Buck's been celebrating responsibly, so he finds his car. Now, even if he didn't know the streets well, he could just get on a main east-west street and head west until he hits the diagonal (SE-to-NW) Kennedy--no prob. Bonus annotated version of photo, including Wrigley (but at least a couple misplaced annotations: U of IL-Chicago should be significantly E; Brookfield Zoo, NW). By the way, Buck, I want the Cubs to lose as much as the next guy--actually, more than the next guy. With the Cubs having won the division last year, however--and more importantly, doing very well in this young season, having won 5 in a row, taken the division lead, blah3--general-purpose insults don't ring as true and in the moment as usual. Forecasts for a June swoon might not be out of order, though. :p In any case, the pic likely wasn't taken after a Cubs loss, or even during baseball season at all, because 1. for the streetlights to show up so well, the leaves must have been off the trees; 2. neither Wrigley nor White Sox Park is lit up; and 3. the Flicker page says it was taken January 2, 2007. Quote:
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04-23-2008, 07:20 AM | #3 |
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Sure, congestion is a feature of any big city, especially on the expressways, but not nearly as confusing as some big cities.
By the way, on the annotated version, I doubt that's Zion Nuclear Plant at the top. I spent considerable time working there, and think it's further north, out of the picture, halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee.
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04-23-2008, 09:04 AM | #4 |
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My kind of town...
Thanks UT. I have dual monitors now at work and needed a new wallpaper.
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04-23-2008, 12:59 PM | #5 |
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Chicago at Night by Spoon
Now When She Went To Chicago That Night She Faced A Wall And She Woke Up Outside With All Those Leaves In Her Mouth And Felt The Pall And All Night The Rain Came On Down But Then She'd Never Been To Chicago At Night Before The Fall And It Don't Stop Not At All It Falls All Around In The City Hits The Ground And Now Everybody's At Disadvantage Speaking With Their Second Language She'd Never Been There Before They Went And Set Up The Wall And Though Nobody'd Expected Much From This Reinvention She Still Broke Right Down After All Because She Knew That It Was All Over And We'd Hit A Wall And Like The Fall This Was All Now It's All Around In The City On The Ground And Now Everybody's At Disadvantage Speaking With Their Second Language And I Never Been To The Wall Never Been To The Wall Never Been To The Wall Never Been To The Wall Never Been To The Wall Never Been To The Wall Never Been To The Wall |
04-23-2008, 04:15 PM | #6 |
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Oh, look up there at the top of the picture. That's the alley where they shot the mountain lion last week.
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04-24-2008, 01:05 AM | #7 |
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