Connecting the Windy City

The spire of the First Methodist Church of Chicago casts a shadow on the house that Daley built, and Picasso takes a God-smack as well (JW...

Jack Brickhouse holds steady while "Forever Marilyn" teases the crowds at Pioneer Court (JWB, 2011) “I’ve often stood silen...

Goethe enjoys his evening of "frozen music" (JJB, 2011) She who must be obeyed and I were heading west on Diversey a couple...

Lake Michigan after the Sunday storm . . . open water near the horizon as the storm clouds move east (JWB, 2011) One of the great ann...

City in a Garden -- Downtown as viewed from the north end of Diversey Harbor (JWB, 2011) The few folks who lived in the swampy mess t...

The 1920 Meneely Bell, with bird, on the DuSable bridge (JWB, 2011) Before the skies darkened and the wind whipped up, we had a coupl...

The Abbott Hotel,  721 West Belmont (JWB, 2011) One of my favorite signs in the city – the display for the Abbott Hotel at   721 West...

G eneral Phillip Sheridan and Winchester on a Rainy Day (JWB, 2011) Rest of Today Rain in the morning...then a chance of rain in th...

The city awakes on April 18, 2011 (JWB, 2011) Well, this was a heck of a way to wake up yesterday morning, three weeks into what they...

JWB, 2011 I am a Chicago Cubs fan. I didn’t realize how stark those half-dozen words would appear until I typed them.  I have sp...

JWB, 2010 Now that we’ve got that first 70-degree day out of the way, and all the cars have been towed off the snowbound Lake Shore Dr...

(JWB Photo, 2008) Walk north of Helmut Jahn's Thompson Center on Clark Street, cross the river and you'll come face to face wit...

JWB Photo, 2010 There are advantages to living in a city that shares its boundary with a large body of water, not the least of which is ...

T he July 20, 2010 jump from the top of Trump Tower (JWB Photo, 2010) One of the commercials that ran during last night's Super Bowl...

The Heyworth Building (JWB Photo) My last post concerned the Flatiron Building in New York City, an eye-catching terra cotta gem out ...

(Bartholomew Photo ) Big deal up here on Diversey last week as the vans, trucks and crew rolled in for a day of filming portions of...

Bartholomew Photo Adelor, the 15-year-old male lion at Lincoln Park Zoo, settles in for the long days of summer.  The majestic beast ...

Bartholomew Photo On the night before the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup with an unbelievable overtime goal by Patrick Kane, ...

Bartholomew Photo On the Sunday morning before Memorial Day, with Lake Shore Drive closed in preparation for the annual Bike the Driv...

Bartholomew Photo We have been running to and from the windows since last Thursday, reacting to the sound of helicopter rotors as the...