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Hello and welcome to an Instagram-exclusive post. No longer crossposting to Facebook as I can't handle comments there. Still generally crossposting to Twitter (same handle) and Flickr (reallyboring). Dude on bike unrelated.
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Daffodil in the spring rain
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Just hit 500 miles biked so far this year! Pic unrelated, was too busy being blown to a standstill on the way home.
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Scene on my way to the Jackson Park Advisory Council monthly meeting. Eighty people showed up tonight. Perhaps the only thing they all agreed on is that this is a place worth fighting for--and about.
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Comfy?
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A tower crane with a very long arm has gone up closer to the south end of the construction site
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A sizable foundation has been excavated towards the north end of the site
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The construction staging area where the Women's Garden used to be
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Obama Presidential Center construction site
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Wooded Island and Jackson Park, with Obama Presidential Center construction to the upper left.
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No cherry blossoms yet around Columbia Basin in Jackson Park.
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Gonna dream about warm weather. Soon, right?
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For anyone who hasn't figured this one out yet, it's the Tiffany dome in the Marshall Field's building!
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A few more detail shots before I reveal the big picture.
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Shifting the frame over a bit to show some other details of this mosaic installation.
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The perceived color of this mosaic shifts a bit when you zoom out - which is how people mostly see it. Much more blue.
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Might post more mosaic later. Anyone recognize this detail?
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It's worth spending some time in Preston Bradley Hall looking at details beyond the stained glass dome.
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The elegant chandeliers almost get lost amid the profusion of tile mosaics.
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The Chicago Cultural Center was the first purpose-built home of the Chicago Public Library, and the mosaics celebrate world languages and literature.
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Preston Bradley Hall is much more than a stained glass dome, it is decked out in intricate mosaic tile.
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Of course, I also had to pay a visit to Preston Bradley Hall while I was there with my camera. The stained glass in the two domes is so different!
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The restoration can seem a little bit subtle, but it brought light and color back into a part of the Chicago Cultural Center that had previously felt kind of dark and drab. A big improvement!
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Other lights are integrated into the incredible coffered ceiling, whose original colors were restored as part of this project.
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Ornate chandeliers complement the elaborate details throughout the hall.
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The GAR Hall itself does not let you forget that it is a Civil War memorial.
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I'm not the only one that sees a red-eyed moth in the design, right?
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It's positively luminous now that it has been thoroughly cleaned.
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The restored stained glass dome is undoubtedly the star attraction.
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I took my real camera with zoom lens to the reopening of the GAR Rotunda & Hall at the Chicago Cultural Center a few weeks ago. Finally copied photos off the card, and the detail shots turned out nicely!
