University of Chicago / Hyde Park - October 4, 2005
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All Photographs Copyright © 2005-2011 by Robert E. Pence
I got off the train at the 57th Street Metra Station.
Istria coffee shop, handy to the station.
Walking west along 57th Street, some of the businesses near the Metra line.
The Center for Advanced Medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
Parking garage views
Chicago Parks Department buildings in Washington Park on Cottage Grove Avenue
Just after I left the clinic, fire trucks came from both directions. Some turned into the hospital complex while others stood by a block away.Soon the ones standing by left.
Midway Plaisance was the site of the midway for the 1893 Columbian Exposition
During my stay at the hospital several years ago, the helicopter took off several times a day(and night) from the helipad on the roof
Walking back and forth between the Metra station and the clinic, I passed the Rockefeller MemorialChapel many times before it occurred to me to go inside and look.
1910 Robie House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright recently underwent major restoration. I haven’t visited it since the work was finished.
Walking back to the Metra station, a courtyard off 57th Street
Waiting for my train back to South Bend. Not this one …
Functional sculpture
Neither of these …
Here it is!
