Short Story

The adventures of the blue chipettes.

4:30 PM I started walking down Belden and Racine. The weather was nice and breezy, the wind made the leaves fall of the trees and it made everything look like it was out of a romantic movie. My two little blue chips lead me to Webster. I realized that there was so…

Expect the Unexpected

On Monday afternoon, my two paint chips took me on an adventure from Belmont back to Lincoln Park. I was very excited about this walk, my eyes were scouting for anything in green and yellow. I felt like a kid playing the game “spot it” all over again.

I Spy With My Eyes Something…

Yellowbird

I began my walk at about 2:32 in the afternoon, when the sun was warm and the breeze barely noticeable. Tired of the usual crowded scenery of Lincoln Park, I hopped on the Brown line to the Loop, my headphones in but no music playing, a backpack on, a cell phone in one hand, and a light blue and “yellowbird”…

For Whom The Belmont Tolls

My favorite walkable street, so far.

“No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As…

Full-of a-ton of mysteries

What makes a street walkable? Walking up and down the block of Clark St to Lakeview Ave on Fullerton I know how…

A Walk in the Lincoln Parks

Chicago is full of beautifully crowded streets, of streets with secret alleys and little rarities, green grass on top of buildings and cultures in the food and the smells and in words I can’t understand. It’s an incredible city to find myself in, and I love to wander about the…

The In Between: A Girl Walks Alone At Night

I.

Alive, Coarse, Strong, Cunning

My walk begins at exactly 4:47 p.m., when the sun is beginning to set but is still filling the streets with heat, whisked away only by the cold breeze that always exists in Chicago but seems to be an actual living creature today. As I take the back alley behind Corcoran and…

Breaking Habits

As I planned for my walking journal, I found myself looking up the “best places to walk in Chicago.” I saw that we have Japanese gardens…