Here's a typical commute for this #wednesdaywalk by @tattoodjay
This is the typical morning view as the doors open from the train station. Swarms of office drones tumble out racing towards their open office cubicles.
Our new office space moved to the financial area where all the tallest buildings are. Here you can see some steam coming out of the Willis Tower.
My building is on the lower left.
Just about a block away is the Chicago River where the architectural tour takes tourists and explains each of the buildings they pass.
Off in the distance is Chinatown, then just a bit further is murderopolis aka South Chicago. Don't forget to bring a flack jacket when going there lol.
Here's a building just across the river from Union Station with a map on the side showing the Chicago river and its location in red on the map. The architect took the concept very literally on this project.
Now for some strange modern art just at the base of the Willis Tower. This is a high tourist cluster area as everyone wants to wait three hours in line to go up to the skydeck for one photo lol.
Here's the tallest building in Chicago. I still refer to it as the Sears Tower but just a few years ago it was bought and renamed to Willis Tower.
Here's the glorious view I have from my office. I call it the pigeon alleway. All day long you can see them flying and landing on fire escapes.
Now I made it into the office. I'm usually the first one here because of my train schedule and most the lights aren't even on yet except for these.
Now in the evening I made it back home and took another walk around the peaceful lake. A much more relaxing walk than speeding around in the rat race downtown.
That's all for now. Thanks for looking :-)
Wow the commute to the city. The push of the crowded streets. Glass canyons. A little different than my day to day in rural Vermont. Only downtown job I ever had was in New Orleans which is just barely a city 🤣 But it was in a highrise in the CBD. Only a few cities can pull off the full downtown experience. Chicago is definitely one of my favorites.
The city is now swarmed again, place was an eerie ghost town the past two years. I like the classic buildings, seems they took a bit more care in the quality of design back then. Modern buildings all look the same to me like they bought them out of a stock architecture plans subscription. I bet downtown New Orleans had some classic buildings, hopefully maintained. In South Chicago there are nothing but old classical buildings but they are all rundown maybe gotta put bulletoroof vests on the hipsters to invade and gentrify the place lol.
I went to a ballgame at the old Comisky park in the late 1980's. I was glad I got to see the old park before they tore it down but man was that a rough neighborhood.
Sounds kind of like the white sox stadium here.
Yeah on the south side... they called it Comiskey haha Your youth is showing. I also caught a Blackhawks game at the old Stadium. And Soldier field right after they put in the skyboxes. Wow I'm even older than I thought 😅
Awesome shots
I must admit I do not really miss my walks to the office back when I worked in NYC
But that said it was great to see your walk
Thanks for joining Wednesday Walk :), I truly enjoy exploring the world virtually each Wednesday seeing walks from all around the globe and feeling I am there and experiencing it all myself, such as I did in your post just now :)
Escape from NY Snake Pliskin style :-)
LOL exactly :)
I don't go into downtown very often now that I WFH full-time essentially. I don't miss the T breaking down but it's nice to walk around on a weekend when you can choose of your own volition to go.
I've never been to Chicago but I'm going in a month!
Yeah that is the worst when you get stuck on the train and waste hours of work/home time.
We have same views going to the office, less that lake.
All I can were tall buildings which I sometimes feared if eve earthquake happens😂
Oh yeah especially if you are on a high up floor.
Exactly 😬, its hard to rush down using the fire exit
Especially if its an exterior metal stair one.
Yep, the area around home is soooo much better 😉
But still great to see the high buildings, the architecture and all that is related to it.
Thanks for sharing @sketch.and.jam 😊
Happy Wednesday 👋🏻☀️
If I had my way I would be out in the boonies full time working from home. Maybe when starlink gets 100x faster lol.
I so understand, we think the same… 😊🤓
Maybe one day @sketch.and.jam 🍀🍀🍀
Or go hardcore mode and buy cheap land way up north in the cold and have a sheep farm lol.
You could indeed, how far up north are you talking about?
I’m visiting western Massachusetts end of September for 2 weeks 😉😎 can’t wait to explore the forests and trails 🥰
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Niver been to Chicago - I love the pics of the sky scrapers !
It's a great city for architecture and boat tours of lake Michigan.