Chicago's times square (Lincoln: construction, design, land)

[aragx6]

Hosea Sanders has a giant freakin' head.

[Gelasia]

That is a great picture but I really hope its not yalls time square.

I am tired of talking about Chicago I am sooo ready to move there already!

I've gotten over the walking everywhere, long commutes, people snatching babies from wombs, Latin kings, muggings, streets with pee puddles. I'm ready bring it on!

[via chicago]

Originally Posted by Drover

^^ yet more proof that Chicago simply doesn't have a "Times Square."

Exactly, I dont understand why people insist on trying to draw a comparison that dosent exist, at least anywhere else in the United States.

Now Tokyo, that place is something
Memories of Shibuya on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/manganite/1349056353/ - broken link)
Shinjuku nights on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/manganite/391469293/ - broken link)

Or Hong Kong
Kowloon on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/toshio1/1697243069/ - broken link)

[Costa Rica Chica]

I was walking through Millenium Park on Tuesday and thinking it was like a smaller version of Central Park (and prettier too.) The gardens are beautiful there, and you look up and see the skyline. Beautiful! The new walkway to the Art Institute is going to be very cool, and there are wooden board-walk style walkways around the gardens. It's a gorgeous place to hang out on lunch break.

[chet everett]

Originally Posted by nanannie

I wondered about that statement myself

The Feds do a comparison of housing costs, transportation & utility costs to arrive at these location adjustments.

2009 General Schedule Pay Scale

San Fran is "top tier", of which I have no arguement, having been out there for a bit. NEXT is Houston! Then NYC, then LA (nothing to argue there either). But then is HARTFORD ?!? And Chicago is below that? HOW?!?

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by Costa Rica Chica

I was walking through Millenium Park on Tuesday and thinking it was like a smaller version of Central Park (and prettier too.) The gardens are beautiful there, and you look up and see the skyline. Beautiful! The new walkway to the Art Institute is going to be very cool, and there are wooden board-walk style walkways around the gardens. It's a gorgeous place to hang out on lunch break.

The older Olmstead-created parts of Lincoln Park are a better paralllel for Central Park if you ask me. Though nothing really compares to the energy of Central Park. It was a master stroke in the creation of New York.

[binarybelle]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

The older Olmstead-created parts of Lincoln Park are a better paralllel for Central Park if you ask me. Though nothing really compares to the energy of Central Park. It was a master stroke in the creation of New York.

I agree. Lincoln Park echoes Central Park more closely for me, as well. Especially with the style of buildings nearby.

[Costa Rica Chica]

I guess it was just walking through a "park" with the tall buildings as a backdrop. Just saying.

[coldwine]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

The older Olmstead-created parts of Lincoln Park are a better paralllel for Central Park if you ask me. Though nothing really compares to the energy of Central Park. It was a master stroke in the creation of New York.

For being such a large city, and for having the motto it does, you would think Chicago would have done more to play up the "forest" theme.

As it is, Chicago's parks simply suck. They're just flat land, some symmetrically placed trees and grass. Millennium Park is a giant waste of land I don't think I'll ever love... Much less like.

[via chicago]

Originally Posted by binarybelle

I agree. Lincoln Park echoes Central Park more closely for me, as well. Especially with the style of buildings nearby.

+1.

Grant Park is wildly different than Central. Grant Park is super super formal and rigid in design...it was basically built for the rich folks of the day to parade up and down in the evenings in their fancy clothes, and people to sit on the sidelines and watch the display. It also dosent help that there are major busy roads intersecting the park at multiple point, as well as lake shore drive which completely cuts it off from the lake.

Contrast that with Central Park, where if you didnt know better, you would think you were out in the wilderness in some points.

Besides having trees and grass, theres really nothing alike between Grant and Central, and if you do put them head to head, I dont think anyone would even question which is far and away superior.