Arts

Visited the Michigan Avenue Apple Store when we were in Chicago. Amazing architecture. The building feels invisible.

Apple Michigan Avenue store on the Chicago Riverwalk, with the Chicago Tribune building and skyscrapers behind it.

The view from the 360 Chicago deck on the John Hancock Tower was incredible.

Family selfie from the top of the John Hancock Tower.

Chicago skyline aerial view looking south from John Hancock Tower, with Willis Tower and Lake Michigan visible in the distance.

Aerial view north along Chicago's lakefront showing Lake Shore Drive, sandy beaches, and dense downtown skyscrapers beside Lake Michigan

Family of four smiling for a selfie at 360 Chicago with the Chicago skyline visible through floor-to-ceiling windows behind them.

The Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago are incredible. You can find detail in each one over and over.

Thorne Miniature Room depicting a French-style bedroom with a canopy bed, grandfather clock, fireplace, and terracotta tile floor

Thorne Miniature Room depicting an English Tudor bedchamber with carved oak paneling, ornate fireplace, four-poster bed with green curtains, and floral rug.

Thorne Miniature Room showing an elegant Georgian drawing room with chandelier, bookcase, fireplace, and period furniture on a floral rug

Miniature colonial dining room with dark oval table, Chippendale chairs, corner cabinet, scenic wallpaper, and draped windows

Chicago Cloud Gate sculpture.

Inside the Chicago Cloud Gate.

Chicago Cloud Gate.

Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park reflecting Chicago skyline and clouds, visitors walking around it on stone plaza

View from beneath Cloud Gate in Chicago showing its curved mirrored steel surface reflecting distorted images of visitors walking below

Cloud Gate bean sculpture in Millennium Park Chicago reflecting the city skyline with tourists gathered around it on a cloudy day

Chicago.

Marina City twin corncob towers rising above the Chicago River on a cloudy day

Time for Hamilton! 🎭🎶

Family of four posing outside CIBC Theatre under the Hamilton musical marquee in Chicago

Willis Tower skyscraper shot from below looking up, black and white, bundled tube facade rising into a cloudy sky

$1 million three different ways ($1, $20, and $100 bills) at Chicago Fed Money Museum.

Tilted metal-framed cube packed with bundled US dollar bills on display at the Chicago Fed Money Museum

One million dollars in banded stacks of $20 bills arranged in a circular display under a glass dome at the Chicago Fed Money Museum.

Uncut sheet of $100 bills displayed under glass in an open aluminum briefcase at the Chicago Fed Money Museum

Array of 3D printers at Museum of Science & Industry.

Numbered red and black 3D printers stacked on metal shelving racks in a darkened room at the Museum of Science and Industry

I love watching the Tesla coil at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Tesla coil at the Museum of Science and Industry firing bright lightning bolts, viewed from below through large circular resonator rings.

Tesla coil firing bright lightning bolts from a central toroid, surrounded by two large metal rings, viewed from below in a dark room.

Tesla coil at Chicago Museum of Science and Industry shooting electric arcs outward, viewed from below in black and white

Tesla coil firing bright lightning bolts outward from a central toroid, surrounded by two large circular conductor rings, viewed from below.