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Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-03-03

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“We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.” — Marilyn Monroe




Black and white photo of Marilyn Monroe mural on Michigan Avenue.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-03-02

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“It takes no genius to destroy. The creators, the givers, the lovers, the healers—these are the heroes who know—the building up is so much more difficult than the tearing down.” — Laurence Overmire




Facade of the Burberry flagship store on Michigan Avenue. A crane is stationed in the street on its south side, and a yellow taxi is driving past it (turning north into Michigan Avenue).
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-03-01

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“Whenever you feel crushed, under pressure, pressed, or in darkness, you’re in a powerful place of transformation/transmutation.” — Lalah Delia




Black and white photo of a hand resting on the divider between the door and the seats on the subway. A tattoo reading “Trust” in script letter is visible on the side of the palm.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-02-28

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Remember: don’t buy anything today. If you MUST, buy from a small business and use cash.




A woman walks past a sandwich board in the sidewalk that says “YOU’VE GOT THE POWER.” She is walking through the Gold Coast, arguably the most expensive residential and shopping district in Chicago
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-02-27

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“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” — J.R.R. Tolkien




Black and white photo of the base of the Chase Tower on Dearborn and Washington. Dappled sunlight reflects on the pedestrians cars and bicyclists at street level.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-02-26

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“Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.” — Herman Hesse




Street art. A wooden house, painted black hangs from a tree branch. The house is completely covered with the words HOME and NOT HOME in plain capital letters.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-02-25

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“There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.” — Terry Pratchett




Sunbeams backlighting the Sears Tower. Grant Park is in the foreground. Technically, while this looks like a sunrise, it’s a sunset. The Sears Tower is in the south west Loop.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-02-24

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“Everywhere I go, it’s me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.” — Sandra Cisneros




Black and white photo of a woman standing on the sidewalk in front of a mural of an octopus. It appears as if two tentacles are emerging from her back and legs. My shadow bisects the scene (from me taking the picture).
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-02-23

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“Because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful.” — Kim Stanley Robinson




Black and white photo. Facades of three skyscrapers, one of which is the Burberry flagship store. The result or effect is one of multiple rectilinear patterns.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-02-22

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Chicago has beaches as well as buildings.




In the foreground is a beachfront with various people sunbathing and playing in the water of Lake Michigan. Beyond them are the skyscrapers of the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-02-21

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The Riverwalk is always populated with people, no matter the weather.




View of the Merchandise Mart from the steps of the Chicago Riverwalk. Pedestrians are walking along the sidewalk and others are sitting on the steps near me (the photographer).
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-02-20

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This place always reminds me of a spaceship that has landed along Wacker Drive.

Architectural style: Modern
Architect: Harry Weese
Completed: 1968

The church’s interior was featured in the 2014 film, Divergent.




Black and white photo of a disc-shaped concrete building sitting at the intersection of Wabash and Wacker, along the Chicago River. It is nighttime, and various skyscrapers loom in the background.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-02-04

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A reminder that it won’t always be winter.




Chicago skyline as seen from the south side of North Avenue beach. Cyclists and joggers are biking and running along the bike trails that border the lakefront.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-02-03

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“It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.” — Matthew Fox (author)




A subway makes its way along the elevated tracks at the corner of Van Buren and Wabash in Chicago’s south loop.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-02-02

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Think I’m going to watch Dogma again today. It’s been awhile. Happy Sunday, everyone (heathens and all)!




Cosplayer At C2E2, dressed as Buddy Christ from the Kevin Smith film Dogma. He is actually barefoot! I can’t imagine what kind of stuff is on the concrete floor of the McCormick Convention Center.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-02-01

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“Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.” — Karen Salmansohn




A subway train traveling southbound on the elevated tracks above Wabash Avenue. Behind it are three skyscrapers in red, yellow and blue.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-01-31

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The Marina City towers remind me of some sort of debriefing center aliens would keep us in when they take over the planet.




High contrast black and white photo of the Marina City towers, looking upwards at a steep angle.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-01-30

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This week in my Chicago Architecture Center docent training, we’re learning about the Art Déco period. The Merchandise Mart is an example of the style. At one point, it was the world’s largest building in terms of square footage.

architecture.org/city-tours/me




View of the Merchandise Mart from the steps of the Riverwalk along the Chicago River. Pedestrians walk past the bare-branched trees.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-01-29

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“Life is like a 10-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” — Charles M. Schultz




Black and white photo of two people bicycling through Daley Plaza in front of the Picasso statue. One bike is in shadow; the other is in full sun. There is a sharpe delineation between the cyclists cast by the shadow of a nearby skyscraper (out of frame).
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦mckra1g
2025-01-28

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One of my favorite things about Chicago is its diversity—in its food, its people, its culture and its architecture.

Here’s more about what went into Burberry’s facade:

azahner.com/works/burberry-chi




Various skyscrapers along the east side of Michigan Avenue, including the Burberry flagship store. It has a mirrored 3D plaid pattern that echoes its signature design.

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