“Exhibit ‘Dragons Alive!’ Opens at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum”

Dragons Alive! The Science and Culture of Reptiles opened at Chicago’s Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum on Monday, February 3, A.D. 2020. The exhibit features living members of ten reptile species, including monitor lizards and bearded dragons. The Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend, Indiana organized the exhibit and Build 4 Impact, Inc. produced it. The Micole Foundation is the Presenting Sponsor.

Visitors can take pictures under a Chinese parade dragon and a “life-sized” mockup of the Hungarian Horntail dragon from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. They can also see how they measure up against real reptiles such as the Komodo dragon and mythological dragons. Families can cozy up in the Dragon Reading Room, which has a collection of age-appropriate books with dragons, and seating.

The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum belongs to the Chicago Academy of Sciences (C.A.S.). The C.A.S. stated, “For the most curious adventurers, How to Collect a Dragon is a survey of historic and contemporary specimen-collecting practices, through the lends of the…[C.A.S.’s] fluid preservation collection. Experience a selection from our 23,260-piece wet collection of reptiles and amphibians, and learn how these specimens are helping scientists today.”

The C.A.S. has been in the Chicago Park District’s Lincoln Park for well over 100 years. In 1995, the C.A.S. vacated its headquarters (now the Lincoln Park Zoo’s Laflin Administration Building) west of the South Pond and moved into a former Chicago Park District facility it transformed into the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. This southern part of Lincoln Park is in the Lincoln Park Community Area on the North Side of Chicago.

The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekends. It is located north of the Lincoln Park Conservatory (and Lincoln Park Zoo). It is north of Fullerton Avenue, west of Cannon Drive (and Diversey Harbor), and east of the North Pond (and Stockton Drive).

The address is 2430 North Cannon Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60614. The phone number is (773) 755-5100.

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Connie Arnold October 22, 2020 — 8:45 pm

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The Field Museum of Natural History in March, 2018

The Field Museum of Natural History’s entrance pavilions are at opposite ends of Stanley Field Hall, which has a north-south axis. The two porticos (porches) are each reached by two successive flights of stairs.

Both porticos of The Field Museum of Natural History are flanked by two small porches, which each have two caryatids (columns in the shape of maidens). On the facade, the wings are adorned with a colonnade of attached fluted Ionic columns. The building’s fluted Ionic columns have volutes (spiral-scroll-shaped crowns).

Each portico of The Field Museum is tetrastyle in antis with double-ranked fluted Ionic columns capped by volutes. An entablature crowned by a pediment rests atop the columns. The continuous frieze in each case is relatively plain. The wave-themed acroteria that crown the pediments are borrowed from the Palace of a Fine Arts, which housed The Field Museum until 1920 and now houses the Museum of Science and Industry.

The Field Museum of Natural History isn’t “just” a museum. Visitors can watch scientists at work through windows at the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice DNA Discovery Center’s Pritzker Laboratory.

Mrs. Charles (Laura) Schweppe, a daughter and co-heiress of John Graves Shedd, the former partner of Marshall Field I who succeeded him as president of Marshall Field & Company, and who, under the guidance of Stanley Field founded the Shedd Aquarium, donated an exhibit of 100 bronze sculptures by Malvina Hoffman to The Field Museum. They represent every race, nation, and tribe in the human family (more or less). On January 9, 1933, the first group, Unity of Man, went on display.

In addition to the four figures Henry Hering (1874-1949) made for the corners of Stanley Field Hall, he also made the twelve plaster round lion head shield escutcheons that line it. These are replicas of the marble round lion head shield escutcheon he made for the pediment of the facade of The Field Museum of Natural History.

Christmas at Chicago’s Union Station

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a POLAR EXPRESS display in the Great Hall of Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a closeup of the THE POLAR EXPRESS steam locomotive mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is the headlamp of THE POLAR EXPRESS steam locomotive mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This Union Station Company rail car loaded with super-size gifts is part of THE POLAR EXPRESS mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a Christmas tree in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This Christmas tree in the Great Hall of Union Station in downtown Chicago has emblems of Amtrak, Metra, and historic railroad companies whose routes they now operate like Burlington.

Cinemas sculptor Alfonso Iannelli (1888-1965) Helped Design

This is the Pickwick Theatre Building, an Art Deco movie palace and office building erected in downtown Park Ridge, Illinois in 1928.

The architects were Roscoe Harold Zook and William F. McCaughey. Sculptor Alfonso Iannelli, who also worked on the Adler Planetarium, contributed to this building.

In recent years, the Vlahakis family, who’ve owned the building for 50 years, have been able to turn the building into a multiplex by adding smaller theaters around the original auditorium. The latest one, with a screen four times the size of the one in the auditorium, will open in time to screen INFINITY WARS in May, if all goes well.

The Catlow Movie Theater is a cinema that opened in downtown Barrington, Illinois in 1927. The Tudor Revival style of architecture is not confined to the facade of the cinema. As with the Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge, Illinois, sculptor Alfonso Iannelli (1888-1965) played a role in the design and decoration of The Catlow Movie Theater.

I appreciate how The Catlow Movie Theater’s Tudor Revival style of architecture matches the small office building next door.

Woodridge Enshrouded by Fog

Fog veiled Green Valley Forest Preserve and surrounding neighborhoods on Thursday, February 15, 2018. Seemingly anything might have come out of this little valley.

This is how Green Valley Forest Preserve looked.

This is another view of Green Valley Forest Preserve from a strip mall across the street.

One wouldn’t be surprised by anything that walked out of the Green Valley Forest Preserve when it was blanketed in snow and shrouded by fog.

A few miles away, this is how the clock tower above Hollywood Blvd. Cinema in the Woodgrove Festival mall looked in the fog.

Connie Arnold October 22, 2020 — 8:45 pm

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