Archive for February, 2006

Parking In Chicago

Parking is the main reason not to drive in Chicago. Sure, there are stereotypical cab drivers, Hummers that take up whole blocks, streets that end or seem to reverse direction for no apparent reason, and pedestrians that casually cross intersections with no awareness that the light turned red a minute ago. But the absolute worst […]

Ferris Wheel Day

Today is Ferris Wheel Day. George Ferris was the inventor of the first ferris wheel for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. As a child he’d viewed the water wheels in Carson City and wondered what it would be like to ride in one of the buckets. So when Daniel Burnham wanted a […]