Chicago, once again

If you've been following along you know that we like Chicago. It's a quick flight from DFW to ORD, hotel deals are easy to find on Priceline and Hotwire, and there's a train that goes directly from O'Hare to downtown. A walk down Michigan Avenue is one of the great strolls of the world, then there's Grant Park, the Loop, the Magnificent Mile, Navy Pier, Second City and Blue Man Group, the Art Institute, and much more. If it weren't for the bitter winters, I think we would have moved to Chicago years ago.

We visit often enough that we became members of the Art Institute. There's a wonderful new exhibit there, "Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917", and we're going to see it this weekend. We fly out of DFW Saturday afternoon and return Tuesday. Here's two reviews of the show:

Los Angeles Times

Time Magazine

As a bonus, the Art Institute also has a show of photographs by William Eggleston, and each afternoon there are classical music concerts under the world's largest Tiffany dome, in the Chicago Cultural Center.

Until I come up with something interesting for you to read or to look at, here's a couple of my favorite snaps of Chicago, the first taken in September 2006 and the second in November of last year.