Christmas Tree, Picasso, Nativity, Christkindlmarket. No 15 foot steel menorah yet, but it will appear as it gets closer to Hannukah!
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This is behind the George Washington-Robert Morris-Hyam Salomon Memorial by Loredo Taft.
Chicagoist "Around Town" March 29, 2011.
Thanks, Chuck!
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Normally she's behind a desk at the Central Office, in the Risk Management section. But today she and her colleagues were all out with shovels, helping with clean-up duty after the blizzard.
Judith Tancula. A third generation railroader. Thanks, Judith!
Oh, and it turns out Judith is a yooper! No wonder she's so handy with a shovel!
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On the street level by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The starting place for a great "Who needs a boat Riverwalk tour" by Margaret Hicks of Chicago Elevated.
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She'd been sent up to the elevated platform to tell people that if they were transferring to the red line, they should stay right where they were, since the subway had been closed.
On State Street, responding to an alarm (fortunately not verified) that there was smoke in the red line subway.
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