Now this could only happen in a town like this....

Over 150 significant venues opened their doors to the public for a free weekend on October 13-14. Here are a few of the 25 Open House Chicago sites that I visited:

Conference room, Gottsch Partners Architectural Firm, located on the 17th Floor of the Railway Exchange Building. The left window has a view of Buckingham Fountain and the right window has a view of the Field Museum of Natural History and Soldier Field. (The Gottsch firm was responsible for Soldier Field's renovation and bowl.)

Marquette Building Lobby. They answered that they were Illinois.

Entrance, Marquette Building

Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica

Frank Fisher Apartments

Ganz Hall, Auditorium Building

Sears (not Willis) Tower

Hyde Park

No other Chicago neighborhood has more attractions than Hyde Park. The neighborhood's landmarks include the University of Chicago, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Oriental Institute, Smart Gallery, DuSable Museum, and the Robie House.

Henry Moore, Nuclear Energy. This sculpture marks the spot at which the world's first atomic chain reaction took place in December 1942.

The Robie House, designed in 1909 by Frank Lloyd Wright, was one of the architect's greatest masterpieces and one of the most influential buildings of the 20th Century. It is currently being restored.

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is adjacent to the Robie House and is designed to compliment Wright's building.

The University of Chicago Rockefeller Chapel

The University of Chicago Library

But is it "art"?

The Skokie Northshore Sculpture Garden is a 2-mile linear park housing over 75 contemporary sculptures, including these:

Jack Howard-Potter, Gendron

Andy Zimmerman, Inside Plant

Patrick McDonald, Weeee

Ted Gall, Charger I and II

Jack Holme, Bridge to the Next Millennium

A man's house....

The Beverly Neighborhood on the far south side of Chicago is the highest spot in Cook County and was once an island in glacial Lake Chicago. It has many spectacular homes, including 4 by Frank Lloyd Wright, and several historic commuter rail stations.