Chicago: First Day

We are in Chicago.  We have been here a number of times, but usually visiting my sister.  This time we are staying right down town overlooking the river.  Most of the next couple of days will be pictures of our time here because I won't have much time to write...plus, I want to have time to read and make comments on other blogs.   Here are a few from yesterday.  Today is a much sunnier day with a beautiful blue sky...so hope we can get some good pictures.


View from our bedroom window.

From our bedroom the other direction...the Wrigley Building with clock



Same view but at dusk.

 

We did not do anything special today, but spent our time walking and enjoying the beautiful weather.  I did take a very few pictures.  This store window is one my mother, Maxine would have liked.  The reflection shows the blue sky.  There were lots of people walking but they all stopped to let me take the picture.  How nice!



 

 

 

Two views of the famous Water Tower...one of the few surviving structures from the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.  They say people used the Water Tower as a landmark to find the remains of their burned homes.

 

 

 

Below are pictures from the ballroom of our hotel, Wyndham Grand.