Not long ago, there was a small green space at the corner of South Washburn Avenue and East 11th Street in downtown Chicago, Illinois. It was not large, but essentially a vacant lot full of trees, grass, and a stone desk with a stone chair surrounded by a bunch of curious stone statues. The Wild Images Team has visited Chicago on multiple occasions, and as everywhere else we go, we explore the city entirely on foot which allows us to find hidden gems such as this, one of our favorite locations in the city. On this particular time, some kids had used sidewalk chalk to draw the largest hopscotch track we have ever seen. It entered from along an adjacent sidewalk, passed through the green space on the diagonal sidewalk, and exited back out along the other adjacent sidewalk. Portions of it can just be seen along the background sidewalk on either side of the wall in the photo. Its numbered spaces counted all the way to 120, and it was decorated with plenty of artwork including earthly scenes for the lower numbers, up through sky for the middle numbers, into outer space for the higher numbers. It was a memorable time to be there! The Wild Images Team has captured many other photos throughout downtown Chicago, including the blue skyscrapers of The Grant and One Museum Park, which is available for sale in our store. Blog posts from Chicago have documented the view of the Wabash Avenue elevated train, the ornate art deco brown buildings of old town Chicago, the interesting curious foxes of the small green space, when The Wild Images Team Coordinator Christina sat at the stone desk, the hidden colorful fire escape framed by trees, the day The Wild Images Team finally found the heart of Chicago, the moment when giant headless zombies took over Grant Park, and at the head of the Navy Pier where sits the bronze sculpture Captain On The Helm. Blog posts from the nearby state of Minnesota include the moment that The Wild Images Team Coordinator Christina becomes the Jolly Green Giant, the moment that The Wild Images Team Coordinator Christina becomes the Little Green Sprout, and a scene of The Wild Images Team Coordinator Christina underneath a life size Jolly Green Giant. Blog posts from the somewhat nearby state of Texas include the art created by the line of sunken monuments at Cadillac Ranch and the textures created by thick layers of paint covering the monuments at Cadillac Ranch. A blog post from nearby state of Missouri includes the Route 66 sign of The Uranus Fudge Factory.
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