“Marvel Exhibit in Its Final Days at Museum of Science & Industry”

The traveling exhibit Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes is in its final weeks at the Museum of Science and Industry as it closes Sunday, October 24, A.D. 2021. Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes consists of over 300 artifacts, artworks, and archival documents from the history of Marvel Comics; costumes and props from movies and Netflix streaming series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe; and sculptures that depict Marvel superheroes. It requires a separate, timed-entry ticket. As of this writing, tickets are still available for Tuesday, October 19, A.D. 2021; Wednesday, October 20, A.D. 2021; and Thursday, October 21, A.D. 2021. Please note that the final three days (Friday, October 22, A.D. 20221; Saturday, October 23, A.D. 2021; and Sunday, October 24, A.D. 2021) are sold out. Daytime tickets cost $18 for adults, $14 for children ages three-to-eleven, and $9 for Members. Evening tickets are available for a single date: Thursday, October 21, A.D. 2021. Evening tickets are $35 for adults, $20 for children, and $20 for Members. Note that evening tickets cover admission to this exhibit alone when the rest of the Museum is closed. Click here to purchase tickets. SC Exhibitions, the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP), and Marvel Themed Entertainment organized Marvel Universe of Super Heroes. BMH Harris Bank is sponsoring its presentation at the M.S.I.

Figure 5 Credit: Sandro Vannini Caption: This is a copy of Marvel Comics #1, published by Timely Comics in 1939. Timely later changed its name to Marvel Comics in the 1960s. Marvel #1 included Marvel’s first two superheroes: the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner.

Figure 6 Credit: Sandro Vannini Caption: This upside-down Spider-Man sculpture is the centerpiece of a room devoted to Spider-Man in the traveling exhibit *Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes*. As it is configured at the Museum of Science and Industry, this is the third life-sized sculpture in the exhibit that visitors can pose next to for photos.

Figure 7 Credit: Sandro Vannini Caption: One room in the exhibit *Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes* includes costumes worn by Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury (at left), Chris Evans as Captain America (in the deep background).

Figure 8 Credit: Sandro Vannini Caption: This is a Dora Milaje costume from *Black Panther* (2018) in the exhibit *Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes*.

Currently, the M.S.I. is open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Please note the Coal Mine and U-505 On-Board Tour remain closed. One can walk around the U-505, but not through her.

The Museum of Science and Industry was formerly open every day of the year with the single exception of Christmas Day/the First Day of Christmas. [This year, that is Saturday, December 25, A.D. 2021.] Nowadays, it is also closed on Thanksgiving Day (Thursday, November 25, A.D. 2021). Further, currently the Museum of Science and Industry is closed on Mondays. Friday, October 29, A.D. 2021 is a Members Day, meaning it will be open for Members only, from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

The food court and the coffee shop on the Lower Level (ground floor) in the Central Pavilion’s Lower Court, are closed. The Museum Kitchen will open in 2022. Meanwhile, a new restaurant, the Museum Parke Café, with outdoor seating in Beaver Park, on the Lower Level, between the Henry Crown Space Center and the East Pavilion, is open from 10:30 a.m. until one hour before the M.S.I. closes. Finnigan’s Sandwich Shoppe, off Yesterday’s Main Street, on the Main Level, in the Central Pavilion, is open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 10:30 a.m. until one hour before the M.S.I. closes. Visitors who bring their own lunches can eat them in a tent outside the South Portico (behind the Coal Mine) of the Central Pavilion, in a designated area outside the Ships Gallery, and in the Lower Court.

The address of the M.S.I. is 5700 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60637. The Website is https://www.msichicago.org/ and the phone number is (773) 684-1414.

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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.