City Limits

I chugged into town sitting backwards on the South Shore Line train today, after a two hour ride spent watching the landscape degrade from healthy farmland to the urban decay of Gary and then to the subterranean terminal at Randolph. The city of Chicago is familiar to me in parts, mostly from undergrad day trips to the Art Institute, but this time I'm here with two bags and a wider focus on the city at large. I'm staying with fellow/former digital storytelling student Michelle on the north side of the city and taking public transportation to everywhere I need to go. I've spent some time going over local papers to find the sorts of things I'm here for, and my week is shaping up nicely.