Saturday, August 30, 2014

Saturday fun activity: Where IS this?



     Last week I thought, for sure I'd stump you with that plain "CASH ONLY" sign hanging in a piney interior. No way. It was quickly ID'ed as the Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder on Clark (one of the great, idiosyncratic Chicago institutions. I go just for the salad and the Mediterranean bread). 
      This one, being a large public building, will probably be guessed in a moment, though I had never seen it before stumbling across it. I liked this building because it has a certain cool, architect's rendition quality to it, and I'm offering it up more to show it off than to even hope that someone among the hive won't nail it at 12:05, per usual. 
      Although ... in typical Br'er Rabbit fashion, I can't help but hope a little, in my secret heart (and, here, not so secret, I guess, since I'm saying it) that through some inverted logic, picking the obvious big public building will finally stump the Hive.
      What is this boxy greyscale thing? And where is it located? Given the certainty that it'll be picked, the winner will receive ... hmm, something easy ... a signed paperback copy of "Complete & Utter Failure," a book that I feel stands up well to the passage of time.
      Good luck. Remember you must post your guess below (as opposed to Facebook) to win. 

4 comments:

  1. I'll let someone else win this week, but it looks nicer since it was recently rehabbed.

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  2. Thanks Andrew. Kind of you. I figured people would know.

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  3. That's the new le Meriden hotel in oak brook. Used to be a renaissance. Do I win? I'm so excited.

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    1. You did! Congratulations. Email me your address at dailysteinberg@gmail.com and I'll mail you your book. Thanks for playing.

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