It is one of the most amazing pieces of art I have ever been priveleged to see with my own eyes. It surprised me when the painting brought a tear to my eye. This painting is featured prominently in Ferris Beuler’s Day Off and since that is my favorite scene in the movie, I have always looked forward to standing in front of it like Cameron Frye. My main reason for going to Chicago, besides the fact that it was nearby was to see the Georges Seurat painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. We visited old friends in Ohio, taking advantage of frequent flier miles to fly into Detroit where we were picked up by our friends, hung out with them in Toledo for a few days, visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, which in and of itself will probably be a future post and then drove to Chicago just because we could. His songs will come up from time to time and it will bring a smile to my face about great memories in Chicago. He is definitely a good ambassador for the blues, so much so that I bought his album and you will find it now splashing around in The Well.

It was like a history lesson in the blues. It was an acoustic set and he had lots of stories in between the songs about where they came from and who wrote them. This guy put on a great set of classic blues songs by the likes of Leadbelly and Skip James, as well as originals. Excellent food and drink, excellent entertainment by one Diamond Jim Greene. We spent an evening in Buddy Guy’s Legends Blues Club. We walked all over that town, doing the usual touristy things. We tried pizza at both Pizzeria Uno and Lou Malnotti’s for a side by side comparison and Malnotti’s beat out their competition for the best pie. We spent an entire day inside The Art Institute and still did not see the entire place. I’m thinking we brought the California weather with us because it was 70 degrees on one day.

I recently spent 4 days in Chicago and I gotta tell ya, I love that town! Downtown is beautiful, clean and busstling with energy.

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