{"id":1685,"date":"2026-06-16T07:22:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:06:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:06:58","slug":"chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, my wife and I visited Chicago.  It was my first time, and my wife\u2019s second.  We had a few destinations on our list.  My wife wanted to take me to \u2018the bean,\u2019 and I wanted to check out the new Leica store.  The two destinations allowed us to walk a pretty good amount along the lakefront before our final destination &#8211; pizza at Giordano\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8655-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8655-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8655-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8655-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8655-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8655.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8670-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8670-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8670-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8670-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8670-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8670.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I know the Leica store is new and everything, but I was super surprised NOT to see fellow street photographers walking the Magnificent Mile in Chicago.   There was a gentleman holding a Leica camera, and we had a chat.  Street photographers were practically nonexistent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8688-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8688-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8688-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8688-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8688-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dscf8688.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" 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It was my first time, and my wife\u2019s second. We had a few destinations on our list. My wife wanted to take me to \u2018the bean,\u2019 and I wanted to check out the new Leica store. The two destinations allowed us to walk a pretty good amount along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,187,3,180],"tags":[193,7,36,18,11,194],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-171","category-june-2026","category-street","category-travel","tag-chicago","tag-fujifilm","tag-photography","tag-street","tag-street-photography","tag-x-mount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}