Photo and text copyright 2009 .
I stopped in Chicago for only 48 hours, July 6th and 7th, en route to a digital photo workshop in Milwaukee sponsored by the Society of American Travel Writers [www.satw.org]. Staying at the downtown Fairmont Millenium Park [www.fairmont.com] I had easy access to the inexpensive daily walking tours given by the Chicago Architecture Foundation [www.architecture.org -- TEL 312.922.3432 -- 224 S. Michigan Ave.].
On the 10:00am Art Deco tour I snapped this taxi in front of the historic Carbide and Carbon building. Film art imitates life...and death. The current film Public Enemies portrays the brief criminal career of bank robber John Dillinger who was shot and killed at 10:40pm July 22, 1934 by FBI agents after watching a movie at the Biograph Theatre on Chicago's North Side.
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