Chicago In Season

chicago in season a collection of images by chicago tribune photographers

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Tony W. Hunter, Publisher; Gerould W. Kern, Editor; R. Bruce Dold, Editorial Page Editor; Bill Adee, Vice President/Digital; Jane Hirt, Managing Editor; Joycelyn Winnecke, Associate Editor; Peter Kendall, Deputy Managing Editor Copyright (c) 2010 by Chicago Tribune. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of the copyright owner or the publisher.

Published by Pediment Publishing, a division of The Pediment Group, Inc. www.pediment.com Printed in Canada ISBN: 978-1-59725-293-5

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6 WINTER

104 FALL

46 SPRING

68 SUMMER

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introduction

IN AN OLD JOKE, Chicago

has two seasons: winter and road construction. In truth, Chicago’s seasons, each with its own scenery and mood, are as varied as the city itself. These photos by Chicago Tribune photographers will take you on a tour through our unique and boisterous variations of winter, spring, summer and fall.

--- Mary Schmich A clear winter sky shows off a crisp, pink-creamy moon hovering over Lake Michigan. photo by phil velasquez

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winter

The winds off Lake Michigan weave their own landscape, bending, breaking and bedazzling small trees with ice near the shore. photo by abel uribe

Listening to the news reports, we learn that a horrifying plague has descended upon the city, a plague that threatens to disrupt our lives, perhaps destroy modern civilization.

“It’s a mess out there,” the newscasters ominously intone.

“More of this to come,” they sigh and shudder, letting us know that woe is us, a woe called snow, and that they feel our pain.

But the truth is, a lot of us love snow.

A lifelong Chicagoan, a man with the courage to confess his love of snow, once waxed poetic about it to me.

“Think about it--what can compare to such sudden beauty?” said this Wordsworth of the Windy City. “It erases the ugliness of anything. A garbage dump is beautiful. The slums are pretty. Even the highways--for all the difficulty of driving through the snow--are, for once, something wonderful to see, with the white of the snow set off by the white and red lights of the cars. Also erased are borders. There is no line between city and suburbs, or, in many ways, between land and lake. Neither is there a line between air and earth.

The snow fills the air and covers the ground.”

In the first day or two of a good snow, you’re transported to another place, a more interesting season. One day you’re in Chicago, a snowy day later you’re in Dreamland.

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LEFT: Transportation during Chicago winters can be a drag, but that seems perfectly OK with this traveler as she makes her way down Belmont Avenue in Lakeview, compliments of her father. photo by brian cassella RIGHT: Steam streams over a steeple in Pilsen on a cold December day. photo by alex garcia

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Two parishioners walk up Central Road in Des Plaines, heading to midnight Mass after attending Fiesta Guadalupana in December. photo by lane christiansen

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Snow is about the only thing keeping this lone tree company near Rochelle, Ill., about 75 miles west of Chicago, as the area receives its first significant snowfall of the season. photo by alex garcia

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ABOVE: A student steps through steam rising in the frigid air near the University of Illinois-Chicago campus. photo by michael tercha RIGHT: An icy Monet? Upside down Dali? No, it’s the Chicago River working in ice floes to render the Wrigley Building in reflection. photo by nancy stone

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