August 3, 2011, President Obama celebrated his 50th birthday at the Aragon Ballroom although his actual birthday is August 4th. The President flew in around 6:30pm landing in the fields right by the Montrose skate park and headed down Lawrence Ave to the Aragon ballroom. As I live in Uptown, I headed over near the Montrose skate park to catch some views of the festivities. Here are some photos that I caught:
A view of the city skyline through the railing as the sun sets behind it.
The water arc across the Chicago River runs every hour from 10AM to 2PM and from 5PM to midnight everyday and continues for about 10 minutes at a time.
The ferris wheel spins around at Navy Pier.
A view of the sun setting behind the skyline from Navy Pier.
A picture is worth a thousand words… as a photo captures a single moment in time. This is a photo of the water frozen in time as it fell from a waterfall on the east side of McCormick Place facing the lake.
A memorial park for fallen firefighters/paramedics is just South of mcCormick Place.
A couple strolls down the Lakefront path near Diversey on a sunny day in the city.
The Chicago Fire Department logo on the ladder truck.
Merrill C. Meigs Field Airport (IATA: CGX, ICAO: KCGX), was a single strip airport that operated from December 1948 until March 2003. It was built on Northerly Island, the man-made peninsula that was also the site of the 1933–1934 Century of Progress in Chicago.
The airport opened on December 10, 1948, and became the country’s busiest single-strip airport by 1955. The latest air traffic tower was built in 1952 and the terminal was dedicated in 1961. The airfield was named for Merrill C. Meigs, publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner and an aviation booster.
View from Northerly Island of Meigs Field and the city.
In a controversial move on March 31, 2003, Mayor Daley ordered private crews to destroy the runway in the middle of the night, bulldozing large X-shaped gouges into the runway surface. By August 2003, construction crews had finished the demolition of Meigs Field. Northerly Island is now a park that features prairie grasses and strolling paths.
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You might remember seeing this lightning photo from my "Day 181: Lightning Strikes" post. It was chosen to be the main screen in the Gameday Central App.
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