[Segun]

Where I walked.
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On my way to school. The Graf/City war is still on.
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Uptown
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Lakeview Porches
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov004.jpg

Wow, it seems the city doesn't like the Wrigleyville name, and wants to shove it down our faces thats its named Lakeview
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov005.jpg

Buildings.
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov007.jpg

The walk starts here. I was finished with a test, so I'm leaving the DePaul campus. This is Fullerton Ave
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Juxtaposition. The word of today's thread.
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Mr Submarine
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The madness doesn't stop.
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Looking down Fullerton towards the Red Line stop.
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Starting at 600,000? Luxury? We'll see how luxury this area is as we walk.
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Densification without contextualization.
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See, Chicago needs to get its act together. Here's some points about the North Side.
-Its the second densest 25 square miles in the country.
-Its the most popular 25 square miles for the whole ~10 million Chicagoland area, plus other visitors.
-Its most popular urban commercial districts also serve as its major thoroughfares, and they're usually only 2 lanes wide
-It has a high number of drive-in businesses.
-Its transit over the last three years or so has been inconvienient, yet its growing substantially more crowded.
-New developments have become so ubiquitous, I stopped looking for them.

combine all these together and you have traffic hell. Its ridiculous. Its like the Loop at rush hour all day.
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov016.jpg

This is around the corner on Ashland Ave. from that "Luxury" building
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I like the proportion of this new building.
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Lincoln Park is Chic.
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As we cross under the Metra tracks, near the River, we encounter
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They remind me of me...............walking.
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Office Max Skyline
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Nowadays adjectives are used as nouns.
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If you're going to advertise like that that, at least put the address, that's lazy. I don't have patience with lazy's.
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Oh yeah, this area is so sophisticated, they had to add an 'e' to Mid Town. At least its served by a subway.
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov029.jpg

Eat your heart out Manhattan!
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Its the Queensbridge of Beef Sausage companies.
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Vibrant Midtown streetscape.
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov032.jpg

Dining.
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov033.jpg

Isolation.
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I don't even know.
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I do like some infill examples, somehow they fit in, despite the design.
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Cottages.
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov037.jpg

Expressway.

http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov038.jpg

See, now I have more reason to be an anti-expressway activist. As I was walking, a car leaving the expressway hit another and it nearly slammed me into a wall.

Wonderful
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov039.jpg

Under the underpass.
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Already we see the signs.
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Looking down Damen Avenue, I'll get back to this later.
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I love these three story buildings like this.
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov043.jpg

Sidestreet shots.
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov044.jpg
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Wide Shot. Just from this shot all you see are trees.If you walk, you see all sorts of strange juxtapositions.
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Looks like one of those scenes they'd use in movies to represent 20's Chicago.
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov051.jpg

I like the little bars nestled in residential neighborhoods. Multiply that by 5,000 and you have Milwaukee.
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov055.jpg

More juxtaposition.
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I see a monument.
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov059.jpg

Back on Damen Avenue
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Bizzare block of buildings: two angles.
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More Damen
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Looks like Somebody stole a building from Brooklyn,
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They didn't even care back then.
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Yeah.
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Damn you Lupe.
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More Damen
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov076.jpg
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I like these flying Butresses.
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Thats the Coyote, and thats my cue to return. I didn't want to keep walking a few blocks to the center of Wicker Park, so I cut back.
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov079.jpg

The hell?
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I like the Bungalow right by the Cottage.
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov081.jpg
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CPS
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I'd vote for him.
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What the hell kind of fruit is this?
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The building on the right belongs in the Bungalow belt.
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Crossing the river, Back into Lincoln Park. Its only a few minutes to DePaul's campus.
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov092.jpg


I took some more pictures of the walk to DePaul and how Lincoln Park slowly morphs back into the elegant neighborhood we all know. Outside of me, like, like, well nobody walks from Lincoln Park to Wicker Park, even though they are only 15-20 minutes apart on foot. Chicago's industrial past/present is both a blessing and a curse.

If you can tell, there's this blur that shows up on the left side of all my pictures. I think its because I dropped it in Vancouver. I would of had my yearly Black Friday thread, but my camera corrupted my pics, and I lost all 150. Just when I was getting back into photgraphy again. Fuck this picture shit in general.

That was my Kubrick ending. Bye.

[JivecitySTL]

I don't know how you do it but you definitely do it.

[the urban politician]

That was awesome.

[pyropius]

The fruit is called a horseapple. They're common in Texas.

[STLgasm]

I can feel the magic.

[nygirl1]

Oh man I'm loving this. Good read too. I wonder what a long walk is like for you in Chicago.

[Tom In Chicago]

cool pix. . . dumb neighborhood. . .

[spyguy]

Very nice.

[WesternGulf]

I like the realness displayed in these threads. That pic titled "The hell?" is too familiar down here also.

[ltsmotorsport]

The fruit is called a horseapple. They're common in Texas.
They have 'em up in northern cali too. Weird stuff.

Your walk looks fun segun...well, except for those fucking motorists.

[ChrisLA]

Cool photos as always, but my feet hurt now.

[KevinFromTexas]

Segun, was this fruit beneath a tree? As pyropius said, they're known as Horseapples. The official name is Bodark fruit, from the Bodark tree. They're actually poisonous to eat and extremely sticky. When I was a kid our family would go downtown to the Capitol grounds and go "Bodark bowling". We'd find some of these just laying in the grass beneath the tree. We'd roll them down the sidewalk on the Capitol grounds to see who could go the farthest. Who ever won would then be the champ until next time. Corny I know, but we had a blast doing it, it always puzzled and amused the security guards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodark
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[Wheelingman04]

I love these little walks.

[flar]

Nice thread

[ComandanteCero]

I had a serious case of deja vu when i saw the building with the angled facade and balconies:
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov062.jpg

then i saw this while browsing through kcgridlock's old above chicago thread:
http://photos.imageevent.com/kcphotos/chicago/IMG_1887_sized.jpg

nice.

[olga]

Very very very nice. Thanks for the tour. :tup:

[Grimm]

Oh yeah, this area is so sophisticated, they had to add an 'e' to Mid Town. At least its served by a subway.
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov029.jpgAbout as sophisticated as Olde English. And a 'shopping center'? Way to half-ass it, lames.

[jcchii]

he's back

[UrbanSophist]

Oh man. Awesome thread. And you're not alone, Segun. I've done that walk, too. It isn't exactly the greatest walk, though...

It's funny how the neighborhood now known as Lincoln Park swallowed up those very blue collar neighborhoods that are clearly not intended to be elegant, and now people are paying a plenty to live there.

[ColDayMan]

No bloques, eh?

[Ex-Ithacan]

I like jumbled up hoods like this. The traffic sucks, but housing diversity (even some of the ugly stuff) is cool. I do have a problem with your concept of a short walk (where's my SEGWAY?). Thanks man.

[MSPtoMKE]

Thumbs up.

[Paradox21]

If you can tell, there's this blur that shows up on the left side of all my pictures. I think its because I dropped it in Vancouver. I would of had my yearly Black Friday thread, but my camera corrupted my pics, and I lost all 150.


Remind me to never stand next to you during a lightning storm.

Oh, and yer pickshures iz peechy.

[dktshb]

Very nice :tup:

[Urban Zombie®]

http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov024.jpg

As an "urban enthusiast", I'd prefer them to put the skyline in the parking lot rather than on top of the Office Max itself...

[i_am_hydrogen]

"Crackhead shuffle"... and that's really what it is, isn't it?

Outside of me, like, like, well nobody walks from Lincoln Park to Wicker Park, even though they are only 15-20 minutes apart on foot.

I've taken that walk a few times myself, between Dayton/Webster and Evergreen/Milwaukee, and it's an experience to say the least. The strangest part is definitely around the expressway. Anyway, glad to see you back behind the lens again, Segun.

[LSyd]

A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!! great juxtaposition, and some funky building styles in there.

The Graf/City war is still on.

i hope there's never a peace treaty.

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[Kilgore Trout]

great thread. chicago has such a heterogeneous built environment.

[Xing]

!!!!!!! you were in my neighborhood. You've got style. Why no picture of the Expressway Piss stain that people think is Mary?


BTW, i HEARD they were thinking of making a tunnel under Fullerton, Elston, and Damen. Why not build a round-about?

[Marcu]

Densification without contextualization.
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov015.jpg



This stretch of fullerton always bothered me. The sad part is thw new building in the middle is the worst one.

[GuitarAce]

Segun, was this fruit beneath a tree? As pyropius said, they're known as Horseapples. The official name is Bodark fruit, from the Bodark tree. They're actually poisonous to eat and extremely sticky. When I was a kid our family would go downtown to the Capitol grounds and go "Bodark bowling". We'd find some of these just laying in the grass beneath the tree. We'd roll them down the sidewalk on the Capitol grounds to see who could go the farthest. Who ever won would then be the champ until next time. Corny I know, but we had a blast doing it, it always puzzled and amused the security guards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodark
http://www.streetsandsoul.com/walks/nov087.jpgKind of curious. I've never heard them called Horse Apples, but I have heard them called Hedge Apples. I live in extreme eastern Iowa (2.5 hr drive to the Loop). I'll bet it's a regional thing as to what they're called.

Whatever they're called... they aren't attractive.

[Segun]

thank you all for your comments and thanks for the horseapple commentary.

[detroitismylove]

What a great thread.

[the pope]

i dig.

[ikcyzrteip]

Great pics. The traffic is ridiculous up there, especially at intersections where there are like five different streets.

[Derek]

Excellent pictures:tup:

[SuburbanNation]

they call those "fruits" osage oranges in western missouri...they are good to throw against rocks and fences (common in missouri).

[pip]

I didn't comment on this before?

Gotta love Chicago. May not be the Back Bay or Knob Hill in looks but the city has character and on the cheap in comparison. This city is its own unique place, takes some getting used too and once you are used to it it is hard to underastand the places you used to know.

Great thread again.

[Kingofthehill]

awesome