2120 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE

Yesterday while my car was being serviced, I had time to take a hike in Chicago. I set out with one specific spot that I wanted to visit: 2120 South Michigan Avenue.  Sharp-eyed readers of this blog may recognize this as the title of a Rolling Stones song, which it is. It is also the address of the legendary CHESS RECORDS recording studio. 

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Chicago Landmark Plaque which adorns the building at 2120 South Michigan Avenue

CHICAGO LANDMARK, 2120 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE

CHICAGO LANDMARK, 2120 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE

from wikipedia...

Chess Records was an American record company, founded in 1950 in Chicago and specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. Over time it expanded into soul music, gospel music, early rock and roll, and occasional jazz and comedy recordings, released on the Chess, Checker, Argo, and Cadet labels. The Chess catalogue is currently owned by Universal Music Group and managed by Geffen Records.

Founded and run by Polish immigrant brothers Leonard and Phil Chess, the company produced and released many singles and albums regarded as central to the rock music canon. The musician and critic Cub Koda described Chess as "America's greatest blues label."

Chess was based at several different locations on the south side of Chicago, initially at two different locations on South Cottage Grove Ave. The most famous location was 2120 S. Michigan Avenue from around 1956 to 1965, immortalized by British rock group the Rolling Stones in "2120 South Michigan Avenue", an instrumental recorded there during the group's first U.S. tour in 1964. The Stones recorded at Chess Studios on two more occasions. The building is now the home of Willie Dixon's Blues Heaven Foundation. In the mid-1960s, Chess re-located to a much larger building, at 320 E. 21st St., the label's final Chicago home.

On their first US tour in 1964, the Rolling Stones made a pilgrimage to Chicago. “2120 South Michigan Avenue was hallowed ground,” writes Keith Richards in his 2010 autobiography. “There in the perfect sound studio, in the room where everything we’d listened to was made…we recorded fourteen tracks in two days. One of them was… ‘It’s All Over Now,’ our first number one hit.”
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THE ROLLING STONES are scheduled to release a new studio CD of  all BLUES COVERS in December of 2016.  

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Before I arrived at 2120 South Michigan Avenue, I enjoyed the view from  Adler Planetarium.  I couldn't decide whether I liked the picture with me wearing sunglasses or not wearing sunglasses - so I posted them both.

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Your Food Diary For:

Monday, September 26, 2016

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Roundy's - Maple & Brown Sugar Oatmeal	480	96	8	16	1,040	16
	480	96	8	16	1,040	16
L U N C H
Glacea Lemonade Vitamin Water Zero	0	8	0	0	0	0
Apple - Apple Gala, Med (2)	160	44	0	0	0	34
Organic Date Pieces w/oat flower	240	60	0	2	20	44
SEMI-SWEET CHOCOLATE CHIPS	200	29	11	3	0	23
Oki Sushi - Spicy Tuna Maki, 0.91 roll	300	30	12	15	191	1
Pulp-free Coconut Water, 16 ounces	100	28	0	0	120	22
	1,000	199	23	20	331	124
D I N N E R
Gyro	650	43	41	27	1,297	5
	650	43	41	27	1,297	5
S N A C K S
Nestle - Dark Chocolate Chips	350	40	25	0	0	30
Quaker Salt Free Gluten Free Rice Cake	490	98	0	14	0	0
Oreos - Oreos, 6 cookies	320	50	14	2	280	28
	1,160	188	39	16	280	58
Totals	3,290	526	111	79	2,948	203
Your Daily Goal	7,444	930	248	373	2,300	279
Remaining	4,154	404	137	294	-648	76
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 5,514 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 167.7 lbs in 5 weeks     

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       Your Exercise Diary for:

Monday, September 26, 2016

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
25 MILE URBAN HIKE	315	5,175
MFP iOS calorie adjustment	N/A	339
Daily Total / Goal	316 / 30	5,514 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	316 / 210	5,514 / 4,130

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Chess Records
Parent company	Universal Music Group
Founded	1950
Founder	Leonard Chess Phil Chess
Defunct	1975
Status	Inactive
Distributor(s)	Geffen Records
Genre	Various
Country of origin	United States
	Chicago, Illinois . .