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Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
23 hours ago

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“We tune into the frequencies we are.”


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Mural of two heads facing each other on the facade of a tv repair shop. Along the top of the mural, it reads, “We tune into the frequencies we are.”
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
2 days ago

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Cloud Gate, Anish Kapoor

The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect Chicago’s famous skyline and the clouds above. P.S. Nobody calls it Cloud Gate. It’s The Bean.

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_s_publicartcloudgateinmillenniumpark.html


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Reflective orb at Millennium Park. The Bean (Cloud Gate) in profile. The sky is a bright blue and dotted with puffy clouds. Link to sculpture in toot.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
3 days ago

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“These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.” — Abraham Lincoln


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Busker (street performer) dressed up like Abraham Lincoln, but also painted head to toe with copper paint. Standing on the sidewalk next to Michigan Avenue. He is holding a book in one hand and holding the other up, as if in oratory.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
4 days ago

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Muddy Waters, Eduardo Kobra

https://findmasa.com/artwork/39407daf


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Huge mural of Muddy Waters by artist Eduardo Kobra. Link to site, more info in toot.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
5 days ago

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The Lincoln Park Conservatory is one of my favorite hiding places in town.

https://www.lincolnparkconservancy.org/projects/conservatory-garden/


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Black and white photo of massive palm fronds intersecting. The frame of a conservatory wall is visible in the background.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
6 days ago

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Monument With Standing Beast, Jean Dubuffet (fiberglass, 1984)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_with_Standing_Beast


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Black and white photo: Standing inside the Monument With Standing Beast sculpture and looking upward at the surrounding skyscrapers. Link to sculpture in toot.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
1 week ago

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Celebrate something today.


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Two articulated skeletons sitting in lawn chairs, their arms upraised and mouths agape, heads looking at the sky.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
1 week ago

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The Chicago Board of Trade is an example of Art Deco architecture. It’s one of the locations for Open House Chicago:

https://openhousechicago.org/sites/site/the-chicago-board-of-trade-building/#controls


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Night photo of the Chicago Board of Trade Building at the intersection of LaSalle and Jackson. The whole frame looks like it has been dipped in gold because of the illumination of the street lamps.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
1 week ago

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Whenever I visit the Studebaker Theatre, I sit in the balcony.

https://www.fineartsbuilding.com/studebaker/


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At far lower left corner of frame is an elderly man with a cane walking off frame. He is looking for his seat at the theater. The bulk of the picture is a bird’s eye view of the seats, apron of the stage, orchestra pit and the lowered red curtain.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
1 week ago

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The Riverwalk is a great place to get a different perspective of Chicago’s architecture.


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A line figure walks under the Wabash street bridge along the Chicago River. Beyond them are the skyscrapers of River North.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
2 weeks ago

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People are art, too. The Modern Wing, Art Institute of Chicago.


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Black and white photo of the staircase in the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago. Various human figures are seen ascending and descending the steps.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
2 weeks ago

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If you’re ever downtown at the Sullivan Center (currently a Target store) at the main entrance, you’ll find Louis Sullivan’s initials in the iron work over the door.


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Close up of iron work over a door. Most of the image is intentionally blurry, with an interlocking L and S visible.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
2 weeks ago

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Happy Saturday! Excelsior!


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A 5 year old boy gives a fist bump greeting to a crouching Spider-Man on a sidewalk along Michigan Avenue. The boy’s 7 year old brother stands behind the exchange, smiling down at the hands of each. The boys appear to be Hispanic. The best thing about Spider-Man is that anyone can wear the mask.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
2 weeks ago

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These are my youngest daughters at the Trekfest in Riverside, IA (future birthplace of James Tiberius Kirk). They’re about 4 & 6 y/o in this picture (currently 28 & 30).

https://trekfest.org/


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My youngest two daughters throwing up the LLAP Spock salute at the Trek Fest in Riverside, IA (circa 1998).
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
2 weeks ago

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“Crossing symbolizes the delicate balance of the commercial and cultural districts that converge along the LaSalle Street corridor.”

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_s_publicarthubertusvondergoltzscrossing.html


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Top of a sculpture that resembles an upside down V shape. A male figure is seen balancing across the top of the V shape as he navigates his way across. Behind the sculpture is a glowering sky and buildings of the River North neighborhood.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
2 weeks ago

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Make today wonderful.


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A bike taxi driver wearing a Wonder Woman costume ferries her clients in Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
2 weeks ago

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For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.


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Black and white photo of a white mesh chair seat and the high contrast shadow it casts. There’s a symmetry to the composition.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
3 weeks ago

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Standing in the Dior — snapping a selfie in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Chicago.


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Black and white photos. Reflection selfie of me standing on the sidewalk while taking a picture of the Dior window display. Various mannequins are interspersed throughout the frame.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
3 weeks ago

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The Art Institute of Chicago interior and the skyscrapers of Chicago. Parallel worlds.


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Reflecting selfie of me at night, taken from the Asian galleries at the Art Institute of Chicago. The skyscrapers are overlapping the illuminated interior of the galleries, melding the scene.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
3 weeks ago

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Don’t take yourself too seriously today.

Moose Bubblegum Mural, Jacob Watts

http://wabashartscorridor.org/portfolio_page/15379/


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Huge mural of an adult moose blowing a huge pink bubble. Link to art, artist in toot. Location: Chicago’s South Loop.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
1 month ago

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Every angle reveals a different sculpture. Picasso’s Chicago at Daley Plaza.


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Night photo. Three quarter view of the Picasso sculpture at Daley Plaza, as seen from Dearborn (slightly northeast). It’s high contrast, and the angle gives the impression of a profile.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
1 month ago

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Aluminum tube
bearing its kaleidoscope
of human cargo.


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Black and white photo of subway car interior, as a reflection from a window into the car. Various people are seated or leaning against poles and the walls.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
1 month ago

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This is a stylized photo I took from a bus shelter at the intersection of Chicago and Halstead. The foreground shows semi trailers at the shipping docks for the Chicago Tribune.


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Yellow toned photo of the Chicago skyline as viewed through the plexiglass grid of a bus enclosure. Rows of semi trailers are parked at left of frame.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
1 month ago

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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” —Frank Herbert


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Mural of great furry black beast, mouth agape. Below it, pedestrians walk past.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
1 month ago

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The Marina City towers remind me of some dystopian debriefing center from a sci-fi novel.


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Steep upward vertical perspective of the Marina Towers at night. It’s a black and white photo, so it resembles a film negative, but it’s not.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
1 month ago

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This picture looks futuristic and old timey simultaneously.


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Black and white photo of Wabash, looking up at the subway elevated tracks. At the far right of frame is Trump Tower.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
1 month ago

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One of the features of Chicago is its speakeasy culture. You’ll find inconspicuous drinking establishments tucked away throughout the city. This sign indicates the Cherry Circle Room (part of the Chicago Athletic Hotel).


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Red neon cherry mounted to an alley brick wall.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
2 months ago

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This is my favorite sculpture. I’m so glad it’s only a 20 minute subway ride away from me.

https://art.gsa.gov/artworks/23671/flamingo?ctx=d81151aef11bc7b17e298985e708ab87844643fb&idx=0


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Alexander Calder’s Flamingo as seen from Dearborn Street. Three-quarter view. It is snowing, and the contrast of the blood-orange red, the black buildings and the snow are striking.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
2 months ago

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Top half of one of the two towers of Marina City, twin skyscrapers located along the Chicago River. A landmark for locals and tourists alike, they are referred to as the Corn Cobs.

https://www.marinacity.org/


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Top half of one of the two towers of Marina City, twin skyscrapers located along the Chicago River. A landmark for locals and tourists alike, they are referred to as the Corn Cobs.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
2 months ago

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This is a small city park on N. Michigan Ave. and E. Pearson St. just across from the Water Tower Place shopping mall. The park is named after Jane Byrne who served as Mayor of Chicago from 1979-83. It’s one of my haunts on Sunday mornings.


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Water Tower Park (aka Jane Byrne Park) on North Michigan Ave. Pedestrians are milling about and some people are seated on park benches. Skyscrapers are visible through tree branches.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
2 months ago

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A city within a city. I visit Chicago’s Chinatown neighborhood a few times a year.


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Street-level view of Chicago’s Chinatown neighborhood. The skyline of the skyscrapers of the Loop are visible on the horizon.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
2 months ago

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So much architecture. It’s a gorgeous city.


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The subway crosses the Wells Street bridge (spanning the Chicago River) at dusk. Behind the train are the skyscrapers of the Loop, River North and Streeterville.
Gsmithy
2 months ago

This chick here is my favourite hen, Ginger. A solid layer, beautiful grey and red feathers, friendly and intelligent. In the morning she watches me through the windows and asks for a stroll round the garden. A complete package. I think she'd be a great sitter too!

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A woman in a blue dress cuddling a lovely pekin bantam chicken in one arm. The sun is shining and the chicken is relaxed!
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
2 months ago

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I took this when visiting my kids in Portland, OR. Hippo Hardware is a MUST SEE.

https://www.hippohardware.com/


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Black and white photo of colonnade made up of painted hippos on concrete columns. Exterior of Hippo Hardware in Portland, Oregon. At left of frame, a man leans against the wall, smoking a cigarette.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
3 months ago

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“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.” — Abraham Lincoln

This is the Wrigley Building.


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Humongous U.S. flag hanging on the facade of the Wrigley Building.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
3 months ago

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Onwards and upwards, citizens. Happy Wednesday. You’ve got this.


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Black and white photo of the subway steps at Jackson, looking upward toward street level. At the top of the stairs, a streetlamp is visible, as are the tippy-tops of skyscrapers.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
3 months ago

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Close up perspective of the display window for Adler University on Dearborn. It’s a collection of mannequins wearing yellow, orange and red morphsuits.


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Close up perspective of the display window for Adler University on Dearborn. It’s a collection of mannequins wearing yellow, orange and red morphsuits.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
3 months ago

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The entrance to an architectural firm located within Merchandise Mart.


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The entrance to an architectural firm located within Merchandise Mart. It’s a network of interconnected curvilinear forms made from wood.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
3 months ago

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Choose your opponent (p.s. make sure you’re not fighting yourself). Street chess in front of the Art Institute of Chicago.


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Two people play a game of street chess at a pop up vendor along Michigan Avenue.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
3 months ago

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This person sitting next to me on the bus was kind enough to let me take a picture of her hand.

Just in case you haven’t been told, you are okay.

💜


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Someone’s left hand, bent to show the “triangle” part between the thumb and forefinger. The words “you are okay” have been written on the hand in all caps, using black ink.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
3 months ago

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I spend a lot of my summer nights at the Pritzker Pavilion. Over the years, I’ve seen Rita Moreno, Aimee Mann, Yo Yo Ma and countless other globally-recognized talent. It’s one of my favorite places in town.


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Close up of the bandshell and stage of the Pritzker Pavilion. Onscreen is the word, “imagine,” in all caps.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
3 months ago

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Everything is going to be fine.


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Me taking a picture of a sticker stuck to a plate glass window. It’s of the Grim Reaper, wearing a green cloak. The word balloon emanating from his mouth says, “Everything is going to be fine.”
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
3 months ago

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Some construction at Navy Pier. I liked the contrast between the green and blue.


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Bottom plane of frame is green construction insulating wrapping. Top two-thirds is a bright blue sky with white clouds and a semi-circle of the Ferris wheel at Navy Pier. The seats are red.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
4 months ago

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Designed by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, the Crown Fountain consists of two 50-foot glass block towers at each end of a shallow reflecting pool. The towers project video images from a broad social spectrum of Chicago citizens:

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_s_publicartcrownfountaininmillenniumpark.html


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Mostly grey palette of the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park, and the skyscrapers around it. A group of people is gathered at the base of one of the monoliths that comprise the fountain design. Its illuminated facade displays a human face. This plane is the only vibrant color in the picture.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
4 months ago

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Wabash Avenue at twilight. The Palmer House is to the left.


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Street-level view of the Palmer House marquee that faces Wabash Avenue at twilight. The lights on its underside glow amber, which matches the glow of the string of streetlights on the left. On the right are the girders of the elevated subway train tracks. At the center or “valley” between, the blue sky is bisected by the Trump Tower.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
4 months ago

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One of my favorite things about Chicago is the variety of architecture. The black building is the John Hancock Tower.


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Variety of skyscrapers of Streeterville, with the John Hancock Tower prominent.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
4 months ago

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Detail of the Wrigley Building, photographed from the west (there’s a pedestrian walkway connecting Michigan and Wabash).

Because of the white ceramic brick veneers, this building gleams when the sun hits it.


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Detail of the pedestrian skywalk connecting the two structures that comprise the Wrigley Building(s). The sun falls upon the south facade.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
5 months ago

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Every spring, the Loop is full of tulips and skyscrapers!

💐


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Looking northward on Michigan Avenue from a low/forced perspective, standing on a median full of blooming tulips. In the background, from left to right: the Wrigley Building, John Hancock Tower and the Tribune Tower.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
6 months ago

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You never know who you’ll see on State Street. Pay attention to the magic hiding in plain sight.


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Cosplayer (?) hanging from a street lamp upside down. It’s your friendly neighborhood Spider Man. Most people stream past him, completely oblivious of the miracle of the whimsical above them. I, however, as the photographer, am not among them. Magic is everywhere.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
8 months ago

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Street level view of the span and facade of the Wrigley Building, Chicago. Perspective is from the south building looking northeast through to the Tribune Tower across the street (Michigan Avenue).
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
8 months ago

Thank you for this day. 🌇 
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EDIT TO ALT TEXT: they are not *smoking* They are smiling. DYAC *shakes fist at cloud

Close up of two elderly women facing each other. Both seated in elaborate walkers that can be converted into chairs. Each woman’s back is curved, inclined toward the other. They are smoking and having an animated conversation. Millennium Park is in the background.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
9 months ago

Thank you for this day. 🌇

This sculpture of Chicagoan Bob Newhart is at the end of Navy Pier.

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Close up of bronze sculpture of Bob Newhart, sited at the end of Navy Pier. He is seated in a chair, next to a low couch, representing his TV character of a psychiatrist.