ROOSEVELT ROAD BRIDGE

Lately while crossing the Roosevelt Road Bridge I passed some sculptures which I could not identify or discern their reason for being.  Some googling solved that problem.  

Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus & Mastodon refer to the Field Museum

The Dolphins refer to the Shedd Aquarium

The books refer to the UIC Library

Celestial navigation instruments refer to the Adler Planetarium

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The sculptures are not particularly big.

It might be time to shave...

My daily walk was extended to 16 miles yesterday.  The weather was cooperative.  Although it was cold, I wore enough layers.

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Your Food Diary For:

Sunday, November 29, 2015

BREAKFAST	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
Roundy's - No Salt Added Sweet Peas - 1 3/4 cup	210	35	2	14	53	18
Toasted O's, 4 cup	440	88	8	16	640	4
Michigan Apples - red delicious apple, 2 large	260	68	0	2	0	50
	910	191	10	32	693	72
L U N C H
Home Made - Indian Cauliflower Curry, 1 cup	128	13	4	3	202	3
Generic - Whitefish, Lightly Blackened, 6 z filet	183	0	2	40	1,734	0
	311	13	6	43	1,936	3
D I N N E R
WHOLE FOODS 8739 - SUN DRIED FIGS, 80 g (approx 4 figs)	260	84	0	2	0	56
WHOLE FOODS 8497 - CHERRY VANILLA GRANOLA, 68.75 g (3/4 cup)	300	50	9	6	75	19
Chicken Tortilla Soup, 2 cup	300	46	7	14	1,280	6
	860	180	16	22	1,355	81
S N A C K S
WHOLE FOODS - YOGURT PRETZELS, 40 g (approx 8 pcs)	190	28	0	2	180	19
WHOLE FOODS 5536 - YOGURT ALMONDS, 40 g (approx 12 pcs)	220	22	14	4	20	19
Malt O Meal - Honey Nut Scooters, 60 g	240	48	3	6	420	18
	650	98	17	12	620	56
Totals	2,731	482	48	109	4,603	211
Your Daily Goal	4,829	603	161	242	2,300	181
Remaining	2,098	121	112	132	-2,303	-29
	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
	*You've earned 2,899 extra calories from exercise today

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       Your Exercise Diary for:

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Walking, 4.5 mph, very, very brisk pace	216	3,040
MFP iOS calorie adjustment	N/A	-141
Daily Total / Goal	217 / 30	2,899 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	1569 / 210	23,090 / 4,130

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total calories consumed 2731 calories

total calories burned (16 mile walk) 3040 calories

total net calories 309 caloric deficit

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fitbit day 88

35672 steps

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ten mile walking streak reached 21 days.

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by Blair Kamin, Tribune Architecture Critic, Aug 6, 1995.  (excerpts)

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"The most ambitious of the neighborhood projects has produced a new, but entirely old-looking, bridge where Roosevelt Road stretches over the Dearborn Park neighborhood as well as Metra and Amtrak railroad tracks on the Near South Side.

More than 1,500 feet long and decorated with obelisks and sculptures that represent nearby institutions (dolphins for the Shedd Aquarium, books for the University of Illinois at Chicago), the span reminds us how far we've come from the dogma of the modern movement, which likened ornament to a crime.

But their most intriguing project is the $42 million Roosevelt Road bridge. It leads to Daley's new neighborhood, Central Station, and replaced a portion of a bridge constructed in the late 1920s when it was completed earlier this year.

The bridge is an aesthetic flashpoint because of its abundant use of classicism, which would have been unthinkable when architects were under the sway of the modern movement four decades ago.

There are obelisks of three sizes, towering fluted lampposts, finely detailed planters and retaining walls, handrails that incorporate a miniature version of the Chicago "Y" found at Congress Plaza, and sculptures by Miklos Simon, which are (among other things) likenesses of books, dolphins and celestial navigation instruments.

The design, by DLK's Diane Legge Kemp, raises questions about the propriety of employing such forms today. Some in the avant-garde point to their use as a failure of architectural nerve and a tacit admission that American culture has lost its faith in the future.

It is altogether proper, then, that the bridge has unusual features such as traffic lanes reserved for bicycles and that its decorative elements break down its massiveness in a way that gives it a human scale compatible with Dearborn Park.

The many obelisks, which suggest the profile of a suspension bridge, create pleasing rhythms that appeal to both the driver and the pedestrian. And the sculptures emphasize the bridge's link between the University of Illinois and three lakefront cultural institutions that eventually will be part of a museum campus uninterrupted by Lake Shore Drive--the Shedd Aquarium (dolphins), the Field Museum (prehistoric creatures including mastodons) and the Adler Planetarium (a celestial navigation instrument known as an astrolabe)."

It is altogether proper, then, that the bridge has unusual features such as traffic lanes reserved for bicycles and that its decorative elements break down its massiveness in a way that gives it a human scale compatible with Dearborn Park.

The many obelisks, which suggest the profile of a suspension bridge, create pleasing rhythms that appeal to both the driver and the pedestrian. And the sculptures emphasize the bridge's link between the University of Illinois and three lakefront cultural institutions that eventually will be part of a museum campus uninterrupted by Lake Shore Drive--the Shedd Aquarium (dolphins), the Field Museum (prehistoric creatures including mastodons) and the Adler Planetarium (a celestial navigation instrument known as an astrolabe)."

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Roosevelt Road Bridge