Shengkai Yao
walking chicago: a windy city atlas
2 min readSep 19, 2018

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Can I walk with someone?I feel lonely.

On September 19th I went to the Buckingham fountain and when I was walking I found out there are a lot of parks around the Buckingham fountain, and there are a lot of historical buildings there.

Buckingham Fountain

Even though I saw some historical and beautiful things there, the statue of President Lincoln has has the most profound impact on me because I don’t like read book, but when I was young there was a book attract me a lot which is “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter”. This book compares the slave owners and the rich men at the time to the vampire, and Lincoln is the Vampire. He doesn’t like the slave owners abuse African Americans, so he spent his whole life to fight against that, and he got success. So when I saw the Statue I feel very happy and honored.

Seated Lincoln

When I was walking I saw a couple want to take wedding photo there, and I also saw a lot of tourists and a lot of students who were painting the Buckingham fountain. I also saw Lake Michigan and a lot of small boats there. I heard the sound of the fountain, people talking, cars and wind.

Map of Buckingham Fountain

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