Open House Chicago (continued)

Stop No. 7 -- After lunch we took B back to his apartment. Apparently one site visit was enough for him. Andy and I returned to the Uptown Neighborhood and toured the Sheridan Trust & Savings (now known as Teller House).

This turned out to be such an interesting stop.

It's a workshare building where lots of people now have offices but so many details were kept, like this wall of teller windows.

And these lamps with the (wrong) date on them, sitting on a table that once held deposit slips and such.

Look at the lobby ... and the ceiling.

Andy indulged me and posed in this tiny phone booth. There were quite a few throughout the building.

Beautiful wood doors.

It's too bad buildings don't have these details any more.

Stop No. 8 -- St. Thomas of Caterbury Catholic Church. In 1916, this church was the first of three parishes organized by Chicago Archbishop Mundelein.

Da pope.

Not as ornate as most Catholic churches I've visited. We did eight stops in four hours, lunch with B, saw lots of great "No Kings" rally signs and the rain stayed away. It was a perfect day to be out and about in the city.

Uptown is such an interesting neighborhood. This is the closed Uptown Theater and ...

Very close by, the Aragon Ballroom. Neither was part of the Open House though.

The famous Green Mill Cocktail Lounge was open, but we didn't stop in.

You never know what you'll see in the city. Here's a hotdog lying on a sofa in front of a hotdog shop. Props to Andy who worked the first shift of donuts but drove us all over that afternoon. The man deserved a nap and, yes, he took one the moment we got home.