Some say that there are actually only two seasons in Chicago: winter and construction. The weather is getting warmer (we got up to 70 today!) so construction of all sorts is starting in earnest.
The first picture shows what they have to do when construction work is over the river. This is a picture of a bridge they've been working on for a while - while men are working over the water there has to be a safety boat, sometimes with someone it it, in the water just in case. To keep it from being stolen off working hours they elevate it with the crane (like they do with generators and other valuable equipment on land based construction sites).
The other picture is a wall of a building I pass, they put up the protective scaffold a week ago (in Chicago, if you're doing any work on a building over a sidewalk you're in deep trouble if pedestrians get hit by debris - some seriously substantial scaffolds go up this time of year), I had no idea what they were going to do to the building.
Then I saw the wall - let that be a lesson, you'll see interesting things if you look up occasionally (remember Murph the Surf!). I figured that fissure would take days to fix - nope, the next picture is from 24 hours later. Now I can't wait to see how they finish they wall - a mural maybe?
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