A Library in the City

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As we alluded to earlier, we're doing a piece called "The Quiet City" that will be available with videos and pictures hopefully by January. We're in the process right now of gathering ideas, from the Skydeck of the Willis (it's still the Sears Tower to me) to the Museum Campus along the lake (where we got that beautiful picture above) at 5 AM.

I recently was inspired by my very routine Monday afternoon, spent in a library on Michigan Avenue here in Chicago. I spend these afternoons in a big open space, a newly acquired room by said library that not many people know about yet. It's a very large room with chairs scattered about and great views of Michigan Avenue and Grant Park, which lies directly on the other side of the street. About thirty feet into the Park is a Metra train station with a consistent, blurred, stream of neatly painted blues and reds.

It's one of the quietest places I've found in Chicago, which contrasts perfectly with what's happening just outside these tired glass panes.