BackBlog: Architecture tour

To take advantage of a day off and some pretty weather, I headed downtown for an architecture tour. I took the Historic Skyscraper tour in the fall. And the Architecture of Commerce and Culture tour sounded pretty cool. Covering a very small area (Michigan to State between Adams and Washington), we looked at both interiors and exteriors of buildings that were artfully created by some of the commercial powerhouses of early 20th century Chicago.The first stop of the tour was Palmer House. Which is magnificent and personally ironic, since it was the first landmark I saw when I first came to Chicago last year. Looked at the Sullivan and Reliance buildings, peeked at the inner details of the Marshall Fields building (don't call it Macy's lest you be cut by a loyal local.) Looked around the Chicago Cultural Center. Ended up in Millennium Park. The big theme was that commercial giants like to use their money to beautify the city. All I could hear was Cheese Fiend's comment about a palace in Munich: "The room Bill Gates will never build." But it does make me want to take the Millennium Park tour.
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