Sunday, November 4, 2007

NY style, highrise boom and free stuff

I had some New York-style pizza for the first time in a long time. Man, it was good. My buddy Greg and I demolished a 16-inch from Chicago's Cafe Luigi. The meats we had them drop on top were a bit of savory sausage (ground) and bacon. Mmmm. I'm sure I'll eat there again. It's a mom and pop hole in the wall in Lincoln Park.

Towards the other end of town the other day, I did something I hadn't done in a while; I counted the number of construction cranes I could see from my car. This was eastbound on Roosevelt. I spotted nine. It's a buyers' market for all you would-be highrise residents. About six years ago, you could always count on spotting between four and seven cranes from that stretch of road.

That drive ended up taking me past Columbia College and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. I thought I'd check out my friend Theresa's what-to-do web site for other free museums. They include: The Chicago Fed Money Museum, The International Museum of Surgical Science-on Thurdays, The Art Institute and the Chicago Children's Museum are free Thursday evenings starting at 5. The Museum of Contemporary Art is free through November 14.

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