Carillon

Proceeding further west in the direction Dick Tracy looks, the further end of the Riverwalk is the beautiful Carillon. At various times, people gather on the lawn to hear the chimes play. To visit the area on any pleasant afternoon is to see a true oasis in the suburbs of Chicago.

As Dick Tracy looks into his two-way wrist radio or his computer, depending on how recent the image purports to be. If he were to look up, he would be checking out the wood bridge we saw in the prior post. It is the central point of the Riverwalk and a perfect spot for the statue.

Square-Jawed Crime Fighter

Dick Tracy has been fighting crime in the pages of the Chicago Tribune since 1931, also in syndication around the world.
Chet Gould drew the character until the 1970s, living in Woodstock. There was a Dick Tracy Museum in Woodstock that closed only a year ago.

Among the artists and writers who have continued the saga of the hard-working detective was Dick Locher, an editorial cartoonist with the Tribune and a long-time resident of Naperville. Locher was present for the honor of the Tracy statue at its dedication in early spring, 2010.

The likeness is uncanny, and the statue Tracy looks more like the original than Warren Beatty did in the 1990 movie.

One more image of Tracy in the next post.

Naperville's Riverwalk

The excellent Riverwalk along the DuPage in Naperville is an excellent place to go for a stroll or a relaxing evening. Here we see two of the bridges. My favorite, of course, is the old-fashioned "holzbrucke" (wooden bridge) which leads to or from the circular fountain. The other bridge is a street reflected into the water.

Tomorrow we look at the newest resident along the Riverwalk, so to speak.

Back on the Pier

Back on Navy Pier, we saw a quartet of service men enjoying some free time on a Saturday afternoon. The four men look relaxed, but there is a wistful touch of lonely involved here, possibly excepting the third from the left, who seems to be sending a text message.

Lake Point Tower was still shrouded in a misty fog as we hit the bus to head home.

Fog Lifting

As the Tall Ship Windy returned to dockside, a bit of the fog began to lift. Here we see another shot of the rigging of the ship with a narrow sail in place.

The image of the Navy Pier Ferris Wheel and Skyline Stage was taken a bit later, as we left the Pier and the fog finally dissipated. Might have to take another Tall Ship cruise to see the skyline of the city!

Cannon Aboard

The rigging and the sailwork on the Tall Ship Windy was quite interesting. All the sails are operated in a modern fashion, by pulling the lines from the deck. No one climbs up into the rigging, taking life into hands, anymore.
The instructional talk on our cruise was the history of the tall ships in Chicago, so the cannon on the starboard side was not used. I do understand that some of the cruises talk about the history of pirates on the Great Lakes, and that the cannon is fired at that time.