The Impossible Year

Tag: lincoln square

  • Budacki’s

    Budacki’s

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 While out running errands we found ourselves craving cheese fries so a stop was required.

  • Pizza from Jimmy’s, 16 January 2021Polaroid OneStep 2/Polaroid Color i-Type Film Stopped off at Jimmy’s Pizza Cafe in Lincoln Square briefly to pick up dinner.

  • Montrose & Wolcott, 31 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   New Years Eve was a quiet one for us. The sky was clear, the weather was chilly but not horrible.  I made a stop at Chicago’s Pizza for a slice to go and picked up coffee from Starbucks since all of the good…

  • Montrose Brown Line, 6 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   I walk to the Brown line almost every morning to get my coffee and breakfast from Spoken, and yet I can’t remember the last time I rode the CTA. It’s truly surreal. I miss it like I miss a friend. Something I’d never…

  • Mysterious Children Statue, 5 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Biking by the Sulzer Regional Library on Lincoln Avenue I noticed the, already strange, statue of children on a log had been fitted with some books, to make it look like they were reading, so had to snap a photo. In researching for…

  • Cherry Pie, 26 November 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Here is the delicious cherry pie from Café Selmarie that I was picking up the day prior. Maybe it’s the fact that I haven’t had pie in many months but it was possibly the best cherry pie I’ve ever had.

  • Christmas Tree in Lincoln Square, 25 November 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Biked over to the square to pick up pie for Thanksgiving from Café Selmarie and caught a glimpse of this beauty.

  • Jess and Gabe, 10 October 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Our dear friends Jess and Gabe got married and had a small, socially distanced, gathering in Welles Park to celebrate after the fact.

  • Pizza Break, 4 October 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   I biked up to Jimmy’s Pizza Cafe in Lincoln Square and then sat on a CTA bus stop bench to eat so I could be far away from other people. Strange times we’re living in.

  • Leland Slow Street, 21 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Chicago has converted several residential streets throughout the city to ‘slow streets’ to allow neighbors to work out, play or socialize safely.