Lion dancers at Chinatown Gate in Chinese New Year Parade . Chicago

Lion dancers at Chinatown Gate, Chicago

Chicago Chinatown — Several lion dancers pass under the Chinatown Gate on Wentworth Avenue at the conclusion of the Chinese New Year parade. Filed under:Chicago Chinatown festivals New Year's [includeme...

Lion dancers ride in pickup truck during Chinese New Year parade in Chicago Chinatown

Chinese New Year Parade: Lion dancer transport

Chicago Chinatown — A truck carries lion dancers down Wentworth Avenue in front of the Pui Tak Center during the Chinese New Year Parade. Filed under:Chicago Chinatown festivals New Year's [includeme...

Curie High School marching band in Chicago Chinatown's Chinese New Year parade

Curie Marching Band: Chinese New Year parade

Chicago Chinatown — Drum major and sousaphone players from Curie High School marching in the Chinese New Year Parade on Wentworth Avenue. Filed under:Chicago Chinatown festivals music New Year's [includeme...

Falun Gong marchers in Chicago Chinatown Chinese New Year parade

Falun Gong in Chinese New Year parade, Chicago

Chicago Chinatown — Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) marchers in the Chinese New Year Parade on Wentworth Avenue. Filed under:Chicago Chinatown festivals New Year's [includeme...

Dragon dance team in Chicago Chinatown at Chinese New Year Parade

Dragon dance team, Chicago Chinatown

Chicago Chinatown — A dragon dance team in the Chinese New Year Parade on Wentworth Avenue, ushering in the Year of the Dragon, 4698. Filed under:Chicago Chinatown festivals New Year's ...

Chicago Chinatown: Firecracker strings at Chinese New Year parade

Firecracker strings at Chinese New Year parade

Chicago Chinatown — A spectator strains to see the Chinese New Year Parade while standing next to long strings of firecrackers. Filed under:Chicago Chinatown festivals New Year's ...

Chicago Chinatown: Dragon in Chinese New Year Parade, at Wentworth and 23rd

Chinese New Year Parade: Year of the Dragon

Chicago Chinatown — A dragon near the beginning of the Chinese New Year Parade in the Year of the Dragon, viewed from South Wentworth Avenue and West 23rd Street. Filed under:Chicago Chinatown festivals New Year's...

Drum kit and red school band jacket in closet

Beginner’s drum set

Kenosha, Wisconsin — Drum kit and red school band jacket in Elliot's bedroom closet, where he practices. Filed under:music

Movie listings marquee sign at a Loews movie theater in Illinois

Movie showtimes

Movie listings marquee sign for a Loews movie theatre cineplex in northern Illinois. Filed under:movies signs

Polar Bear Plunge participants in Kenosha, Wisconsin on New Year's Day, 2000

Polar Bear Plunge 2000 crowd, Kenosha

Kenosha, Wisconsin — Bathers emerging from Lake Michigan on New Year's Day after Kenosha's annual Polar Bear Plunge at Simmons Island Beach. Filed under:Kenosha Lake Michigan New Year's [includeme...

Polar Bear Plunge into Lake Michigan at Kenosha, Wisconsin on New Year's Day 2000

Polar Bear Plunge 2000, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Kenosha, Wisconsin — Bathers dash into Lake Michigan on New Year's Day for Kenosha's annual Polar Bear Plunge at Simmons Island Beach. Filed under:Kenosha Lake Michigan New Year's ...

Polar Plunge participant wearing cheesehead on New Year's Day 2000 in Kenosha, Wisconsin

Cheesehead at Polar Bear Plunge 2000, Kenosha WI

Kenosha, Wisconsin — A participant wears a Green Bay Packers Foam Cheesehead Hat to Kenosha's annual New Year's Day Polar Bear Plunge at Simmons Island Beach on Lake Michigan's western shore, celebrating the first day of the...

Kenosha, Wisconsin harbor: Winter sunrise

Kenosha harbor: Winter sunrise

Kenosha, Wisconsin — One of the last sunrises of the 20th century tints Kenosha's icy small boat harbor with rosy colors. Filed under:Kenosha [includeme...

Cooper's Hawk perched in tree on Kenosha, Wisconsin harbor

Cooper’s Hawk at Kenosha harbor

Kenosha, Wisconsin — A Cooper's Hawk perches in a tree along Kenosha's small boat harbor, observing sparrow activity. Filed under:birds Kenosha wildlife [includeme...

Metra rail train station in Kenosha, Wisconsin

Metra train station, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Kenosha, Wisconsin — Commuters arriving by train at Kenosha's Metra rail station via the Union Pacific/North Line. Kenosha is the north end of the commuter train line, which begins at Chicago's Ogilvie Transportation...

The Berghoff Restaurant in Chicago

The Berghoff Restaurant, Chicago

Chicago, Illinois — The Berghoff Restaurant at 17 West Adams, with diners lined up outside a week before Christmas. Filed under:buildings Chicago restaurants [includeme...

Marshall Field's Great Clock with Christmas elf, Chicago, Illinois

Marshall Field’s Great Clock, Christmas elf

Chicago, Illinois — The Great Clock on the Marshall Field's store, on the corner of North State Street and East Washington Street, installed on November 26, 1897. Filed under:Chicago Christmas shopping [includeme...

Tiffany dome at Marshall Field's department store in Chicago, Illinois

Tiffany dome at Marshall Field’s in Chicago

Chicago, Illinois — The breathtaking glass mosaic dome of Marshall Field's State Street store, made of 1.6 million pieces of Favrile iridescent glass, was designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, and installed in 1907. Filed...

Marshall Field's State Street store in Chicago during Christmas shopping

Marshall Field’s on State Street, Christmas

Chicago, Illinois — City sidewalk outside Marshall Field's State Street store — the epicenter of Christmas for the Midwestern United States, a week before the holiday. Filed under:Chicago Christmas shopping [includeme...

Chicago skyscrapers: 333 N Michigan Ave and 360 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL

333 N Michigan / 360 N Michigan, Chicago

Chicago, Illinois — 333 North Michigan and 360 North Michigan, seen from across the Chicago River. 333 was designed by John Wellborn Root, Jr., and completed in 1928. It is 34 stories high. 360 is the 21-story London...

Chicago's Michigan Avenue Bridge, December 1999

Michigan Avenue Bridge, Chicago

Kenosha, Wisconsin — Self portrait: At work on an Apple computer workstation in my home office, surrounded by books. Filed under:Chicago [includeme...

Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago, Illinois: eight level shopping mall

Water Tower Place shopping mall, Chicago

Chicago, Illinois — Looking down the glass elevator through the eight levels of Water Tower Place's shopping mall at Christmas time. Filed under:buildings Chicago shopping [includeme...

John Hancock Center in Chicago: Looking up from ground level

John Hancock Center, downtown Chicago

Chicago, Illinois — Looking up the 100-story, 1,127-foot John Hancock Center at 875 North Michigan Avenue from ground level. The John Hancock Center was designed by architect Bruce Graham and completed in 1970. Official...