After breakfast at Beef and Brandy, we took off to visit the Chicago Historical Society Museum, and I took several pictures along the way:

Terry waiting for the El


El tracks as seen from the front window


Crossing the Chicago River


The Museum


An interesting sculpture outside the museum

(That's nice, Grinnell, but did you take any pictures inside the museum? Uh... no, sorry.)

In the afternoon, Terry went to a meeting, and I took off exploring. First I took a couple of pictures just outside the hotel, showing the El tracks overhead:

I visited Marshall Fields, the famous Chicago department store, and then headed south to the old Stockyards. The stockyards themselves are long gone, but I went to see where they were. Here's a picture of a church near the stockyard site:

...and here's all that remains of the stockyards - the front gate. That's a cow's head looking down from the top of the arch.

In the evening, we had dinner at Palmer's with Gina McGaughey (pronounced "McGoy"). She was another person whom Terry had not seen for years, and whom we have seen often since. When Terry left her job at Wells Fargo in San Francisco to go back to Santa Barbara, Gina was the person hired to take Terry's place.

After dinner, we joined a group that went to Blues In The Night, a blues nightclub owned by Buddy Guy. We stayed for about two songs and left. The music was at ear-shattering volume.

After the general session in the morning, we took a long El ride to the north end of the city for lunch at a Polish restaurant. When we came back, we went to a museum/multimedia show called "Here's Chicago." These pictures shows the museum exterior:

...which is housed in a building which used to be the Water Department. Across from the building is this old water standpipe:

...that was given a fancy exterior for cosmetic reasons. I don't remember if it's still in use.

In the evening, we went to the banquet; there was a cocktail hour beforehand:

The speaker was an old radio enthusiast who played tape clips from various old shows. Later, our friend Doug Haise arrived, and spent the night in our room.