In Chicago

First Winter in Chicago

Posted by on Mar 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

Happy Casimir Pulaski Day! It has been a long, cold winter in Chicago. This is my first winter living in the city itself and it took me a few months to get used to the cold wind whipping through the streets when I walk to the grocery store. I haven’t done as much of the fun things that Chicago has to offer so far but with two couchsurfers staying with me over the next few weeks, St. Patrick’s Day and my upcoming move to a new apartment March should bring a few new adventures.

Below are some photos I snapped around Chicago this winter. I love my iPhone dearly but it takes some of the most horrible photos I have ever seen:

” rel=”lightbox[817]“>German Christmas Market in Chicago” rel=”lightbox[817]“>Renegade Craft Fair” rel=”lightbox[817]“>Illini game at Uniter Center” rel=”lightbox[817]“>Smashing Pumpkins at Chicago Theater ” rel=”lightbox[817]“>Chicago celebrating Obama's inaguration” rel=”lightbox[817]“>The Chicago Lyric Opera” rel=”lightbox[817]“>Pulaski Day... No school in IllinoisIce invading the interior of a building in Bucktown

2 comments

  1. Ann
    March 3, 2009

    Have you ever been to see the river died green for St. Patrickís day? You can read about here http://www.greenchicagoriver.com . The colors in the photos look enhanced but I assure you it is actually that bright of a green.

  2. Megan
    March 3, 2009

    Ann,

    I marched in the St Patrick’s Day parade with the girl scouts as a child but I’ve never seen the green river apart from every year on tv. I’m meeting a friend for the South Side Irish Parade on Sunday (the “real parade” as she put it) but thought about going to the dying this year.