CHICAGO – MY KIND OF TOWN Part 2

Bill then took us to lunch at the swank Metropolitan Club in the Willis building.

Being with him again made me realize how much I have missed sitting next to him at baseball games where he can rattle off any stat you want..a walking baseball encyclopedia and a great friend.”

“Up in the Sky Deck among the photos of famous Chicagoans I passed this picture of Studs Turkel and couldn’t resist taking this picture. Studs, the writer/journalist, was a beloved Chicago fixture. He played a cab driver in my movie “The Dollmaker,” which partly filmed in Chicago (in the winter).”

Butterfly Haven

After lunch, we visited the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum where we were looking forward to and spent most of the time in the “Judy Istock Butterfly Haven”. All of us are partial to butterflies and definitely could have stayed for a few hours. The butterflies fly freely in the room, and it is clear that there are children in the exhibit who are having this close experience with butterflies for the first time.

Every afternoon around 2PM they release the newly hatched and ready to fly

We arrived just in time to see

Outside of the Haven room, are some chrysalis getting ready to ‘hatch.’

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  1. among other things, you are mighty handy with a iPhone camera

  2. Hello, Jane. You are a time traveler. By that I mean you look decades younger. May I recommend that on your next visit to Chicago you visit the museum about women’s history that is maintained by the following organization? Please copy the following and paste it into your web browser to see its website.

    http://www.cawhc.org/

    Keep on truckin’.

    Fondly, Cindy Trells

  3. I have absolutely loved reading your Chicago blogs! So much detail and information! Thank you! Looks like I need to head back to Chicago this summer to go explore more! What was your favorite thing that you did? What was your grandkids’ favorite thing? Also, what was your favorite restaurant?

  4. I had the nitrogen ice cream also, made by the same guy ;)) thank you for all the photos. My son went away to college there in 2001 and only comes back to Miami for a week once a year. I just went for the first time this past Mach and have enjoyed relieving my experience with you!! my kind of town too!! so much culture! xox

  5. Hope you got to the Art Institute of Chicago. Their permanent collection of African-American Art is superb. And for movie rats like my self, what a surprise to be staring face to face with the hideous visage of Dorian Gray as rendered by Albright. I had no idea the painting was actually a real painting instead of a movie prop! One of my fav art museums.

    • April, I have heard so much about that museum and it will be for the next trip, for sure!!

  6. Thank you for being so gracious to the members of our DaVita Dietitian Council and including our picture on your blog. It was a pleasure to enjoy the boat ride with you!

  7. Hi Jane, I work at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. Sorry I missed the chance to see you during your visit to the Museum. But wanted to let you know how much I loved your movie “Peace, Love and Misunderstanding” that I caught last week.

  8. Entirely off-topic, but I was wondering what your thoughts were on the way NBC handles personnel issues regarding their on-air female talent? It seems very misogynistic to me—discard the older model for one with a “fresher” appearance and/or personality. Or is that just the nature of the beast when you are a woman in the media industry?

    • Peter, I couldn’t agree more which is why Gloria Steinem, Robin Morgan and I co-founded The women’s Media Center. Thanks

  9. Gentle Jane I read with great pleasure the report of the trip to Chicago.
    Definitely want to go and visit this beautiful city.
    I’ll be in New York on July 21 with my family (the first American holiday of my daughters) but I do not deny that Chicago has wowed me. It will be for a second time in the USA. Thanks for sharing your blog through and enthusiasm that shines.
    With very admiration.
    Antonella

  10. Hi Mrs Fonda I just wanted to say it was a pleasure meeting you in iCream Cafe 🙂 I was the emplyee who recognized you as soon as you came in. I asked you has anyone ever told you that you look like Jane Fonda? You winked at me and whispered “I am” That absolutely made my day! Thank you for stopping in and I hope you cand your family enjoyed everything. Come back again 🙂

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