Wednesday Walk - Lunch Break

Here is a bit of a lunch break walk for this #wednesdaywalk by @tattoodjay

First off I took a shot of my walk into the city each morning this week. Here's Monday...

And Tuesday... Still pretty much the same darkness but not too cold.

And today, warm enough to not even wear a hat.

I was hoping it would just be a gloomy foggy warm winter day today.

Then I went out for lunch... Now there is ice everywhere and a horrible wind chill. A bunch of random snow was being blown off the lower deck of the Willis Tower.

The Deloitte building had a bunch of icy snow under it. I almost slipped taking this shot. I suppose if I had slipped the shot would still look the same.

Here is a nice offset corner building with a decent little coffee place in the bottom. I mostly see U of I people going in here.

I still haven't looked up what goddess this is at the top of this building in the financial area. Maybe she oversees all the financial losses from the federal reserve building over there.

Here's the side of the Franklin building, this is a massive full block sized building where I used to work in a tiny fishbowl office during covid. Endless office interiors inside with bridges and interesting lobbies that overlook the city higher up.

Now for more treachery, the bridges are now covered in slippery ice within a 15 minute span. The key is to walk like a penguin over this ice.

If a sailboat comes by someone has to go in here and draw the bridges up. Great for blocking traffic for a long time while the boat slowly makes its way past. Its the worst getting stuck behind a drawn up bridge during lunch when you have to run back to the office to do work.

Lots of corrupt Chicago mayors get their names in plaques on these little draw bridge things.

Seems nice and sunny out but the wind is blisteringly cold.

Now for a barge hauling sand that got covered in ice. Probably expanding the riverwalk somewhere closer to the Mag Mile downstream.

That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)