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Art Hill > April 1, 2009 Chicago built of Legos
My daughter had told me that Legoland had a model of Chicago so I was expecting something that would say, fit on a ping pong table. I wasn't prepared for this incredible display that was maybe 50 feet long.  The view above is less than half of the whole thing.  The attention to detail was incredible. You can see more if you're interested at
http://arthill.smugmug.com/gallery/7771166_rH5J4/1/502783133_rwLPv
Art Hill > March 31, 2009 Local eatery
Continuing the series of images around La Grange, Illinois where we have lived since 1977. This little restaurant is across the street from the Stone Avenue Station.
http://arthill.smugmug.com/gallery/5529181_hoJ5g/1/#501015448_XodyJ-A-LB
 Antonio lives above the restaurant.  It is small but very popular. Everybody we know has eaten at Antonino's many times. We have too and we almost always bump into someone we know. The restaurant has been there since at least the late eighties. (We moved to our current house at this end of town in 1992.) The place to the right was once a one-hour photo lab - we had passport photos taken there 15 or 20 years ago. It was empty for along time but reopened as the Hammer boutique a few years ago. Full shot of the boutique is here
http://arthill.smugmug.com/gallery/7557064_Hn5T7/1/#501016965_c2AMu-A-LB
Art Hill > March 30, 2009 Sunshine Bistro
Continuing the La Grange series (3rd post). When we moved to La Grange in 1977 this was a Chinese restaurant. During the 80's the downtown area of La Grange continued to decline and many businesses, including that one, closed. We got down to only a few restaurants, no grocery store, no book store. The village and business groups tried many things to reverse the decline. In one expensive ill-fated example they banned cars on a street called Calendar Court and remodeled it into a pedestrial mall. Nothing worked. In the mid nineties things began to turn around. A few years ago some national magazine called La Grange one of the 80 hottest suburbs in the country. We now have a Border's Bookstore, Trader's Joe's, Walgreens and at least 18 thriving restaurants.  The place pictured was a French restaurant for a few years then it became the Sunflower Bistro. It's a very nice place.
Here's a painting like shot from the front
http://arthill.smugmug.com/gallery/123174_ygEgm/1/#108774078_8fbWm-A-LB
Art Hill > March 29, 2009 Stone Avenue Station
Continuing my series on La Grange, Illinois where we have lived since 1977. This is one of two train stations in town. It was built in 1901 and is now scheduled for some major rennovation.The express train to Chicago downtown takes 10 minutes.
I probably caught the train here between 3000 and 4000 times over the years I haven't worked downtown since 2000). I took the train downtown from here last Thursday and it felt pretty good.  It's 5 blocks from my house to the station so I walked to and from the station.
The high school is less than a block from the station; many commuters park in a lot right behind the high school.
The other side of the station is here
http://arthill.smugmug.com/gallery/7557064_Hn5T7/1/#501016883_YEhXh-A-LB
Art Hill > March 28, 2009 La Grange Village Hall
Over the next few days I thought I would show you a few things around La Grange, Illinois the Chicago suburb where we have lived since 1977.  This is our Village Hall.
Art Hill > March 27, 2009  Think bank bailouts are new?
I went to work at Continental Bank in 1964 right after I graduated from high school.  In 1984 Continental Bank failed in the aftermath of the Penn Square collapse.  At the time it was the ninth largest bank in the US - deemed "too big to fail" by the Federal government. It was taken over by the FDIC who even guaranteed uninsured depositors and creditors. By 1991 the FDIC had sold off the last of it's holdings. Bank of America now occupies the building - another "too big to fail" bank that is now in serious jeopardy.
Art Hill > March 26, 2009  Lake Drexel is gone!
Hopefully never to return.  The top picture shows my yard and the two yards on both sides March 8th.  The bottom is today.  It took a while; both neighbors had pumps going 24 hours a day last week.  The more they pumped the drier my yard got :-)  Eventually all the water was gone.
Art Hill > March 25, 2009 Morning swim
I've been hoping to get a decent shot of both ducks together in our pond. It's tricky in the afternoon as I'm facing West.  I have to shoot from the deck or they get nervous and leave.  Got this one about 10 minutes ago so this will be their "couples" portrait for now.
Art Hill > March 24, 2009 Windy
We went with Lori, Lindsey and Scarlett to the DuPage Children's Museum in Naperville.  They had bubble machines, wind tunnels and all sorts of things.  Scarlett got a kick out of the wind tunnel.  It was all lots of fun.
April 1, 2009 Chicago built of Legos
My daughter had told me that Legoland had a model of Chicago so I was expecting something that would say, fit on a ping pong table. I wasn't prepared for this incredible display that was maybe 50 feet long. The view above is less than half of the whole thing. The attention to detail was incredible. You can see more if you're interested at
http://arthill.smugmug.com/gallery/7771166_rH5J4/1/502783133_rwLPv
 > April 1, 2009 Chicago built of Legos
My daughter had told me that Legoland had a model of Chicago so I was expecting something that would say, fit on a ping pong table. I wasn't prepared for this incredible display that was maybe 50 feet long.  The view above is less than half of the whole thing.  The attention to detail was incredible. You can see more if you're interested at
http://arthill.smugmug.com/gallery/7771166_rH5J4/1/502783133_rwLPv
April 1, 2009 Chicago built of Legos
My daughter had told me that Legoland had a model of Chicago so I was expecting something that would say, fit on a ping pong table. I wasn't prepared for this incredible display that was maybe 50 feet long. The view above is less than half of the whole thing. The attention to detail was incredible. You can see more if you're interested at
http://arthill.smugmug.com/gallery/7771166_rH5J4/1/502783133_rwLPv
Camera: Canon (Canon Eos Digital Rebel Xsi) |
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Original size: 4272px x 2848px |
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filename: legoland IMG_4936 |
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