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Chicago in pictures Paul Ryan This weekend I took my first trip to Chicago. Here's a few of the photos I came back with:
 This is a shot of downtown Chicago's skyline, taken from the Navy Pier. If you ever want to know what the "world famous" Navy Pier is like, just go down to the food court at your local mall. It's roughly the same thing.
 I only saw a few homeless people while traveling the windy city's streets, and this one looked least likely to tear my face off. I'm pretty sure he had been there all day, and as he shielded his eyes from the last rays of the sun around 7 pm, he had made around seventy cents.
 The shoe repair shop closed well before its lighted sign came on, which makes me wonder if the owner even realized how hilarious his sign had become. I don't doubt that hoes break down every once in a while, but I always figured their pimps "repaired" them by giving them a good beating.
 Ahhh, Millenium Park. What's it for? What does it mean? Is that the face of Theo from "The Cosby Show"? The world may never know. I probably could have found out if I had taken the time to read the nearby plaque, but reading is a lot of work.
 The highlight of the trip was a visit to the world famous Billy Goat's Tavern. Their cheeseburgers are thin and greasy, and the only beer they have on tap is "Billy Goat Light" and "Billy Goat Dark", but it's my kind of place. It's shadowy and murky, there's Mike Royko newspaper articles plastered all over the walls, and when you give the bartender his tip, he says "Thank you sir" in a polite manner and then leaves you the hell alone.
 In Milennium Park, there's a giant metallic bean. If you walk underneath the bean, this is what you see when you look straight up. If you look directly in the middle, it appears as though everyone standing underneath has been shrunk to the size of a thimble. If someone set up a vending cart under this thing and sold hard liquor, they'd make a fortune.
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