a photoshop-free tour of andersonville

Even though it seems like I'm always in a hurry when I'm here, I really do like Chicago (except for the freezing cold temperatures it is APRIL, people, it should not be 44!). It's a city of great, funky neighborhoods, and the one in which Melissa the Missionary and the Filmmaker live is no exception. M and I walked to dinner tonight at a place that is Somethin', and here are some of the gems we passed:

This would be Gethsemane. Gardening Center.

Then there's the Philadelphia Church, where the time is apparently always right for salvation, because the clock has no hands:And, finally, who would take a cruise with these guys?


This is, coincidentally, the same neighborhood that the Northwestern students told us all the grad students live in when I was here on a recruiting visit six years ago this week. Hmmmm....