CITY DAILY PHOTO JUNE THEME DAY - PINK

Your city may have a monumental statue of a politician or general, the figure of Liberty or a battling bull and bear. We have Erwin Wurm's Big Suit in Citygarden. I find it ambiguous, subject to many interpretations. Many years ago, though, I had a pink seersucker suit. No idea what got into me.

It's going to be crazed around here this weekend. The baseball Cardinals' arch-rivals, the Chicago Cubs, are in town. That always draws thousands of out of town fans. The third game of the Stanley Cup finals is Saturday night, with our Blues and the Boston Bruins tied at one game each. Is it coincidental about Cubs and Bruins at the same time or is there deeper mystical significance? I think the authorities should just turn Market Street into a river of beer and the rest of us should stay far away.             

To And Around Wrigley

A few more pix from Chicago. St. Louis has one of its big annual photo-ops this Saturday but I'll have to scrape along until then.

Going to a Cubs game at Wrigley Field is a deep experience for a baseball fan. Above, our group gets ready to board a Red Line CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) train at Chicago Avenue, near our hotel. We took it to Addison Avenue, right next to the stadium. 

Of course, it's squeezed into a neighborhood, known as Wrigleyville. The stadium is so small that people have built grandstands on top of the small apartment buildings across the street (now mostly converted to bars).

Below, the back of the lower deck of seats late in the game, with a very old-fashioned scoreboard. Cubs win! Cubs win!

I mentioned that the the Cubs have not won the championship in over a century. Our St. Louis Cardinals have done so eleven times.       

Cubs Game

The small group I'm meeting with in Chicago went to the Cubs game last night. The Cubs have played in Wrigley Field since 1916. It's a small, wonderful place just plopped down in a North Side neighborhood. The Cubs have not won the championship in 104 years, the longest drought of any major North American professional sports team. They won last night, though, beating San Diego 5 - 3.

Home tonight.       

STL DPB On The Road: Chicago

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Some readers of this blog must think I'm never at home anymore. Well, sometimes. This is the north stairwell of the outstanding Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. If you are in the area, you gotta go see the exhibit Take Your Time with work by Olafur Eliasson. It simply blew us away.

I got lots of other good shots yestersay at the Chicago Folk and Roots Festival, as well as the Cubs - Cardinals baseball game (Cards win!). It's late Sunday night as I write this. I'll post some pix as soon as I can edit them.

Visiting Chicago

My wife and I are spending Mother's Day weekend visiting our son, U "R" Us, in Chicago. We are enjoying the alpha and omega of the city's culture. Yesterday morning we saw the Edward Hopper show at the Chicago Art Institute. In the afternoon, we went to a Cubs game at ancient Wrigley Field, a first for us. This afternoon we are going to a performance of Don Giovanni at Chicago Opera Theater. So much to do here.

TOMORROW: Show me the money.