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Apple Store Architecture Chicago Tech Winter Is Coming

How the Apple Store in Chicago became a dangerous place this winter

sudshr47 December 29, 2017

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Ominous, high-hanging icicles have turned Apple’s sleek, MacBook-inspired waterfront store in Chicago into a potentially perilous environment. 

Apple has cordoned off, with caution tape and signage, vulnerable areas where the sharp ice could fall. Chicago blogger Matt Maldre first spotted the architectural mishap, brought on by this winter’s severe Arctic blast.

The architectural company Foster + Partners designed the carbon fiber roof to mimic a flat MacBook Pro laptop. They even emblazoned an Apple logo atop the roof — just like on the actual devices.  Read more…

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Apple Store Architecture Chicago Tech Winter Is Coming

How the Apple Store in Chicago became a dangerous place this winter

sudshr47 December 29, 2017

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Ominous, high-hanging icicles have turned Apple’s sleek, MacBook-inspired waterfront store in Chicago into a potentially perilous environment. 

Apple has cordoned off, with caution tape and signage, vulnerable areas where the sharp ice could fall. Chicago blogger Matt Maldre first spotted the architectural mishap, brought on by this winter’s severe Arctic blast.

The architectural company Foster + Partners designed the carbon fiber roof to mimic a flat MacBook Pro laptop. They even emblazoned an Apple logo atop the roof — just like on the actual devices.  Read more…

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Chance The Rapper finally gets the recognition he’s been waiting for, thanks to the Chicago Bulls

sudshr47 December 5, 2017

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Anyone who’s ever heard of Chance The Rapper should know his occupation. I mean if you pay close attention to his name, you should get it pretty easily. 

However, about three weeks ago at a Knicks vs. Cavaliers game at Madison Square Garden, someone felt that it was necessary to stress what he does for a living by adding a pretty obvious and redundant caption when he popped up on the big screen—”Chance The Rapper, rapper.”

In case you wanted to know the occupation of “Chance The Rapper”…pic.twitter.com/ZP16PYHqo7

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) November 14, 2017 Read more…

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company to bid for Chicago airport link project

sudshr47 November 30, 2017

 Elon Musk’s Boring Company, a project that plans to use futuristic underground pods to transport cars across long distances without traffic congestion, is starting to take shape. Fresh from raising $300,000 from the sale of hats — an ‘initial hat offering’ — and getting permission for projects in Maryland, Musk has confirmed that the company will bid on a project… Read More

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Here are the favorites for Amazon’s second headquarters

sudshr47 November 16, 2017

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As Amazon’s Hunger Games-esque trial to choose the site of its second North American headquarters drags on, a few cities have emerged as clear favorites.

A new report from Sperling’s Best Places compiles speculation from media outlets, research firms, and brokerages into a definitive ranking of the metropolitan areas most likely to be graced with Amazon’s presence.

Based on that information, Atlanta is the clear leader of the pack, with Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. close behind.

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Chance the Rapper spoke at a Chicago City Council meeting to protest a new $95 million police facility

sudshr47 November 9, 2017

No matter how big Chance the Rapper gets, he remains a Chicagoan through and through.
The rapper has used his ever expanding platform in support of Chicago Public Schools and communities he grew up in. Now, he’s using it to oppose $95 million spendin…

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Turns out Barack Obama can make even jury duty look fun

sudshr47 November 8, 2017

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Barack Obama has done the unthinkable: given millions of people FOMO over not serving jury duty.

Former President Barack Obama was at Chicago’s Richard J. Daley Center on Wednesday to perform his civic responsibility and show up for jury duty. And even though everything about jury duty — from the boring AF intro video to the hours of waiting in uncomfortable folding chairs surrounded by strangers — is often dreaded, TBH, jury duty looked totally lit with Obama there.

Obama was reportedly called to serve in late October at Cook County, where he’s registered to vote. It’s impeccable timing considering he and Michelle recently hosted The Obama Foundation Summit in the good old windy city. Read more…

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1970s Chicago History New York Retronaut

Lush color photos capture the cityscapes of New York in Chicago in the ’70s and ’80s

sudshr47 November 4, 2017

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Dave’s Restaurant, New York.

Image: Wayne Sorce/Joseph Bellows Gallery

Born in Chicago in 1946, Wayne Sorce studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and went on to have a distinguished career in photography.

In the 1970s and ‘80s, Sorce explored the urban landscapes of New York and Chicago with his large format camera, making precisely balanced compositions of color, geometry, and light that also recorded the era’s particular styles of signage, advertising, and automobile design.

Wayne Sorce: Urban Color, an exhibit of cityscapes by Sorce and his contemporaries, is on display at Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla, California through Nov. 30. Read more…

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