Broadway Street, Lakeview Neighborhood, Chicago

Broadway Street, Lakeview Neighborhood, Chicago
Originally uploaded by rllayman.

Steve Pinkus is a colleague-friend who spends some of his free time visiting great places and taking photographs while he's there. He just spent last weekend in Chicago, and he sent our way a number of photographs from the Southport and Lakeview neighborhoods.

About Lakeview he writes:

Photo by Steve Pinkus who writes-- These photos are from a Sunday afternoon along Broadway, one of the main streets in a neighborhood called Lakeview, which has a lot in common with Dupont Circle in terms of housing stock, density, and a heavily gay population. However, I've found no neighborhood here in DC that can match the quality and variety of independent retail found along this, and many other, neighborhood commercial strips.

Another thing I like about Chicago is that housing costs, even in prime neighborhoods like Lakeview still are relatively affordable (even along the rail transit lines) with plenty of less expensive housing options either here or nearby, so that not only the most affluent can afford to live here with everyone else commuting in from suburbs.


And this shot of a block of rowhouses in Southport is superb.


Earlier in the week, I read a piece about George Pelecanos, who writes mysteries-detective type novels set mostly in Washington. I like these kinds of books both for the adventure and because of the local details. Loren Estleman writes similar novels set in Detroit, my hometown, and Sara Paretsky, featuring the detective V.I. Warshawski, writes novels, mostly around insurance scams and the like, set in Chicago. (This week I was poking through her book Total Recall, not knowing Steve was going to be sending photos of Chicago.

If you want to look at more of Steve's photos, here is the link.

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