“You Can Vote on Name for African Painted Dog Puppy at Brookfield Zoo”

On Monday, January 13, A.D. 2020, African painted dog Ngala gave birth to a litter of puppies at Brookfield Zoo and since the zoo had to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic, when the pups were ready to enter their outdoor habitat on Friday, April 24, A.D. 2020, zoo visitors were unable to see the event as normally would be the case. Consequently, the Chicago Zoological Society (C.Z.S.) decided they should make their public debut via the Brookfield Zoo’s “Bringing the Zoo to You” Facebook Live chat on Tuesday, April 28, A.D. 2020. The litter consists of two sisters and five brothers. Six of the seven pups – the two sisters and four of the brothers – now have names and the C.Z.S. is inviting the public to help name the seventh.

The two sisters are Daisie and Roanne. The five brothers with names are J.P., Cesar, Prospect, and Masikio. The male without a name was the first-born in the litter. Originally, the C.Z.S. intended to have a donor name that pup, but now they are inviting the public to help choose a name from a list of four names written up by the animal care staff.

Those who wish to have a say in the matter can vote at the Brookfield Zoo’s Website at www.CZS.org/NamePaintedDogPuppy. The names are Kashyyk (pronounced Ka-sheek), which is the name of the Wookie home world in Star Wars films, novels, comic books, and video games; Shaki (pronounced shah-key), which means shark in Chewa, a Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe, one of the countries where African painted dogs are native; Taya (pronounced Ta-ya), which means jaws in Swahili; and Kwanza, which means first in Swahili.

Voting began at noon on Thursday, May 7, A.D. 2020 and will continue through 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 20, A.D. 2020. The result will be announced on Thursday, May 21, A.D. 2020.

Credit: Chicago Zoological Society Caption: The Chicago Zoological Society posted the “Bringing the Zoo to You: Painted Dog Pups” Facebook Live chat on its YouTube channel for the benefit of people who did not see it streaming live on Facebook.

People interested in helping defray the cost care for the African painted dogs at Brookfield Zoo can contribute to the Animal Adoption program. For $35, one will receive the Basic Package, which includes a 5” x 7” color photograph of the African painted dogs, a personalized certificate of “adoption,” an African painted dog fact sheet, and the Animal Adoption program decal. To purchase one of these “adoption” packages, visit www.CZS.org/AnimalAdoption.

The C.Z.S. operates the Brookfield Zoo in west suburban Brookfield, Illinois on property that belongs to the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. Founded in 1920 and chartered in 1921, the C.Z.S. brought to life the vision of Edith Rockefeller McCormick (1872-1932) to give Chicago a zoo without bars modeled on the Tierpark Hagenbeck, known in English as the Hagenbeck Animal Park, a privately-owned zoo in Hamburg founded in 1907 by Carl Hagenback, Junior (1844-1913). The Brookfield Zoo opened in 1934, during the second year of Chicago’s second World’s Fair, A Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-34).

Figure 1 Credit: Jim Schulz, Chicago Zoological Society Caption: The public can vote between the 7^th and 20^th of May, 2020 on the name for the first-born pup in the litter of seven born at Brookfield Zoo on Monday, January 13, A.D. 2020. The first name on the list of his four possible names is Kashyyk (pronounced Ka-sheek), which is the name of the Wookie home world in Star Wars films, novels, comic books, and video games.

Figure 2 Credit: Jim Schulz, Chicago Zoological Society Caption: The public can vote between the 7^th and 20^th of May, 2020 on the name for the first-born pup in the litter of seven born at Brookfield Zoo on Monday, January 13, A.D. 2020. The second name on the list of his four possible names is Shaki (pronounced shah-key), which means “shark” in Chewa, a Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe, one of the countries where African painted dogs are native.

Figure 3 Credit: Jim Schulz, Chicago Zoological Society Caption: The public can vote between the 7^th and 20^th of May, 2020 on the name for the first-born pup in the litter of seven born at Brookfield Zoo on Monday, January 13, A.D. 2020. The third name on the list of his four possible names is Taya (pronounced Ta-ya), which means “jaws” in Swahili.

Figure 4 Credit: Jim Schulz, Chicago Zoological Society Caption: The public can vote between the 7^th and 20^th of May, 2020 on the name for the first-born pup in the litter of seven born at Brookfield Zoo on Monday, January 13, A.D. 2020. The fourth name on the list of his four possible names is Kwanza, which means “first” in Swahili.

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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.