Robert Loerzel
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Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur.
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This was something I witnessed but didn't manage to photograph — these wavy shadows hit the ground just before the eclipse went total.
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Remarkable that this story is buried on Page A13 in today’s New York Times.
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I asked Little Richard a question at SXSW in 2004.
Q: "What's a typical day for Little Richard like these days?"
A: "Some days, it's 'whoa whoa.' Some days, it's 'woo woo.' Some days, it's 'boo boo.' It's hard being Little Richard. Sometimes I wonder how I made it."
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Neil Young says he lost his home in the California fires. And he lashes out at "our so-called president."
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View from a Brown Line train crossing the Chicago River
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The note Leonard Cohen sent his old girlfriend Marianne Ihlen (subject of his songs) when she was dying this summer.
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The second-story windows above Cafe Jumping Bean in Pilsen look remarkable.
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Tonight’s view from the Brown Line crossing the river
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AG's office confirms Pruitt used private email for state business. (He testified in Senate that he didn't.)
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A surfer this morning in Lake Michigan at Montrose Beach
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NYT reprinted its investigation of Trump family finances as a special pull-out section in the Sunday paper.
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Here’s Buddy Guy last night, playing guitar as he walks out of his nightclub to continue his solo out on the corner of Wabash and Balbo.
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Staff at Chicago Public Library’s Edgewater branch, among the busiest in the city, walked off the job Wednesday afternoon, forcing the branch’s closure.
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Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said he will filibuster any pick that is not Merrick Garland
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View from a Brown Line train crossing the Chicago River
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Some unexpected critters I saw on the banks of the Grand Calumet River in Burnham, Illinois.
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In case you’re wondering where this is…
Nuclear waste from the world's first nuclear reactor, buried in the forests of the Chicago suburbs.
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The scaffolding is down, and the Aragon Ballroom’s restored terra cotta looks lovely.
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Blick Art Materials recently opened in that quaint building on Randolph Street (which originally opened in 1934 as the Old Heidelberg Restaurant).
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It's strange that Trump is now saying his father was born in Germany. In "The Art of the Deal," Trump incorrectly said that his father's father came to America "from Sweden as a child," when his paternal grandfather was actually an immigrant from Germany.
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The Green Mill has a jazz band and tables out on the sidewalk.
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A goose family crosses Lawrence Avenue (with some human assistance)
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A Ja’Mal Green campaign bus is stuck in a circular drive at Truman College.
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Looking east through a window on a Brown Line train, from Merchandise Mart to Washington and Wells
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Thread: I saw the North Branch bald eagle this morning. It was sitting on a tree just of the Wilson Avenue bridge over the Chicago River …
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I ran into one of my Uptown neighbors, Don, as he completed a carving of the piping plovers Monty and Rose in one of the big rocks at the Montrose Beach Dunes.
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Man trying to sell cigarettes on a Red Line car: “9 dollars a pack.”
Woman sitting nearby: “8 dollars.”
Man: “You gotta ride farther south for 8. … 75 cents for a square.”
Woman: “I’ll help you with your hustle, but I’m only paying 8.”
No sale. He exits the car.
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‘It wasn’t right,’ says Ian Grillot, wounded while trying to stop gunman who shot 2 Indian-Americans in a Kansas bar
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Salmon were swimming up and down the little inlet along Montrose Pier today.
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Time-lapse through the window of a Brown Line train from Southport to the Loop
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Scabby and bricklayers union members outside the Aragon
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Curious coyote behavior in Graceland Cemetery. It kept going back and forth across the bridge to the island with Daniel Burnham’s grave.
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I went to see the foxes in Millennium Park. Here’s Part 1 of my video… 🦊
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Turtles were basking in the sun this morning at Lincoln Park's North Pond.
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The Edgewater Beach Apartments, as seen yesterday from Montrose Beach
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I guess people like watching this video I took!
View from a Brown Line train crossing the Chicago River
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The power goes off on a Red Line train sitting at Clark and Division. A second later: the sound of a passenger popping open a can of beer.
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How children reacted to "2001: A Space Odyssey," according to a 1968 Howard Johnson's menu.
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Birds weathering the arctic temperatures at Montrose Point this morning
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I like those Chicago building that look like ships plowing into the pavement of diagonal streets.
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A raccoon sleeping this morning in a hole in a tree
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The Walking Man’s resting place at St. Boniface Cemetery. RIP.
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Downtown’s spookiest subway platform — the south end of the Monroe stop
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A beaver swims across Montrose Harbor this evening. 🦫
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A beaver swims at sunset — and hauls a branch over to its Montrose Pier hidey-hole.
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Bald eagles on Chicago's Southeast Side! I saw two this morning around Big Marsh Park and Lake Calumet: a mature one (photos 1 and 2) and a juvenile (photos 3 and 4).
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A Chicago woman giving advice to a couple of luggage-toting tourists on the Red Line: “So, remember — Portillo’s and Lou Malnati’s.”
Tourist: “Portillo’s and Lou Malnati’s. Got it.”
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In line to renew my driver’s license, I showed my birth certificate to an Illinois secretary of state employee. She said: “Sorry, that’s from Alaska. We don’t accept foreign birth certificates.” 🤔
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The lake seems angry again this morning at Montrose Point.
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I'm interested in fox news (not Fox News).
A fox family has found a home in Millennium Park's Lurie Garden.
See more photos here by Tribune photographer Armando L. Sanchez:
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The Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee has a lot of old art on display … including this early 19th-century painting of kittens.
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A juvenile great horned owl takes flight in Chicago.
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This morning on the Red Line… reading the newspaper while sitting next to a guy dressed as Spider-Man.
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When I walked through the Chicago Cultural Center’s Preston Bradley Hall last weekend, I pointed my phone at the ceiling and took this video.
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I like it whenever these two cars are parked in close proximity.
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3624 South Martin Luther King Jr. Drive — Ida B. Wells-Barnett lived here from 1919 to 1930.
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Keanu Reeves will play Daniel Burnham in "The Devil in the White City"
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100 years ago next Saturday, July 27, was the beginning of Chicago's 1919 race riot, one of the most horrific events in the city's history.
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See that thing way out in the water near Montrose Pier? That’s a beaver carrying a branch.
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Look at that tube.
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Waking up to news about a mass shooting — and realizing that it isn’t the same one everyone was talking about when you went to sleep… America in 2019. This is madness.
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