Nights - lights and sights

So many movies to see - and a dinner after most of them! Most of my time downtown was spent in the evenings and at night - and most of it in the Magnificent Mile, one mile of shops and restaurants and fun stuff on Michigan Avenue. There even was an Apple Store - where we could check out the latest gizmos, and check our email too!



The Chicago Tribune Building is one of the more famous landmarks of the Mile. Even forgetting the fact that its architects were chosen via an international competition, the pieces of buildings on the wall quite literally come from many lands -


tombs in Giza and Agra,
walls in China and Berlin,
national parks in Wyoming and Arizona,
basilicae in Constantinople and the Vatican,
cathedrals in Trondheim and Paris,
castles from Hamlet and the Forbidden City,
halls in Princeton, Harvard, and Yale,
seats of power in London, Moscow, and Washington D.C.

Why, there's even a moonrock on display in the building!





The best view of the city, though, comes from the 96th floor Signature Lounge in the John Hancock Tower. You can see the Lake, the lights, the downtown buildings, and all in all - a wonderful view of Chicago!



And this is where the Mile ended - or started, as you like it - for across the bridge on the Chicago River, is downtown Chicago.