Here's something different for this blog, a shot of downtown Chicago along the Chicago River. The photo was taken from a hotel room on the 24th floor of the Sheraton in downtown Chicago. Miranda and Art Davis and I gathered in Chicago and stayed at the Sheraton last weekend for the annual Chicago Gift Show. We shop the show for some of the items we sell in the Harborside Shop in the offices of the Isle Royale Queen IV during the summer months. It was bitter cold in Chi-town all weekend. The temp at the time this photo was taken was about -10 degrees F. Wind chills were down in the -30s, and they were even worse up north in Green Bay, WI, where the second Ice Bowl football game was played later this same day. We were in Chicago to develop our business, of course, but we look like pretty small fry when considering the massive business ventures of America's big cities, such as the Trump Towers of Donald Trump, which is the glass building under construction up the river in the right center of the photo. Even in the extreme cold, workers were moving about at the top of the new Towers all weekend long. Art and I were pondering how Trump finances these costly ventures. We could only guess. And how much does such a building cost? Though I have been involved in fund-raising for more than 20 buildings at Michigan State University, I really was quite unsure of my guess. Those Towers and all of Chicago, the city with those big shoulders, makes my life seem pretty puny.
Jan 22, 2008
Cold City
Here's something different for this blog, a shot of downtown Chicago along the Chicago River. The photo was taken from a hotel room on the 24th floor of the Sheraton in downtown Chicago. Miranda and Art Davis and I gathered in Chicago and stayed at the Sheraton last weekend for the annual Chicago Gift Show. We shop the show for some of the items we sell in the Harborside Shop in the offices of the Isle Royale Queen IV during the summer months. It was bitter cold in Chi-town all weekend. The temp at the time this photo was taken was about -10 degrees F. Wind chills were down in the -30s, and they were even worse up north in Green Bay, WI, where the second Ice Bowl football game was played later this same day. We were in Chicago to develop our business, of course, but we look like pretty small fry when considering the massive business ventures of America's big cities, such as the Trump Towers of Donald Trump, which is the glass building under construction up the river in the right center of the photo. Even in the extreme cold, workers were moving about at the top of the new Towers all weekend long. Art and I were pondering how Trump finances these costly ventures. We could only guess. And how much does such a building cost? Though I have been involved in fund-raising for more than 20 buildings at Michigan State University, I really was quite unsure of my guess. Those Towers and all of Chicago, the city with those big shoulders, makes my life seem pretty puny.
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