In 1909, architects Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett published one of the most influential
documents in the history of urban planning: The Plan of Chicago. Responsible for many of the city’s most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks and roadways, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier, the Plan reflected the city elite’s response to the massive influx of inhabitants to urban centers during America’s industrial age.

One hundred years later, architects, planners and landscape architects take a stab at becoming the heir apparent in an exhibition entitled  “Big. Bold. Visionary: Chicago Considers the Next Century“

Taking Burnham’s advice to “make no little plans,” architects submitted proposals for the region over the next century. Among the project submissions are a high-speed rail system, water transit service, ecologically-driven skyscrapers and municipal pier for Northerly Island.

 “Proposals like these, created in the forward-thinking spirit of Daniel Burnham, reinforce Chicago’s reputation throughout the world as an innovator in architecture and design.” 

Lois Weisberg, commissioner of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs

Murray Grossmith

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2009 U.S. Open Squash Championships, September 2-6

The 2009 U.S. Open Squash Championship boasts six of the World’s Top Ten players. This year’s field is poised to showcase squash’s best athletes on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile.

This unique event - to be held in an all-glass court in Pioneer Court, between Tribune Tower and the Chicago River - continues to elevate the city’s profile, as well as the sport of squash, which is played in more than 150 countries by an estimated 20 million people.

The 2009 U.S Open is expected to draw sports enthusiasts, spectators and the news media. Last year, the tournament was covered by major local outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, CBS, FOX and WGN-TV, to name a few, bringing the game of squash - not to mention the event’s sponsors - to tens of thousands of Chicagoans each day that matches were played.

Folksey

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Here is an alternative way to locate our business while in the Windy City. The Sears Tower has just created a new way to view downtown Chicago. On the 103rd floor they added glass cubes, with glass floors, that extend from the building to give a view of the city. You can look straight down to the street over 1,000 feet below. Of course bring a camera, but don’t forget a polarizing filter.

Gizmag article.

Mark

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The Last Word

The Taste of Chicago, the world’s largest food festival, starts today. For the next 10 days over 3 million people will converge on Chicago’s lakefront to eat, drink and listen to free music. The Taste kicks off with the cutting of a 2,000 lb Eli’s Cheesecake. Popular food staples include Chicago-style pizza, Chicago hot dogs, barbequed ribs, Italian Beef and Polish sausage. On July 3 the city holds its Independence Eve fireworks display. This takes place on the shore of Lake Michigan and is often ranked the best fireworks show in the nation. This year’s music line up includes Drive by Truckers, The Wallflowers, Counting Crows and one of my favorites, Chicago’s own Buddy Guy.

Simon  

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The Chicago Cubs are the most popular baseball team in America. Unlike most TV stations in the USA, Chicago’s own WGN Channel 9 is called a Super station, broadcasting Cub’s games across the country. People living in small towns across America, places like Little Rock Arkansas, where Bill Clinton comes from, do not have a national baseball team in their state to cheer for. So they become hard core Cubs fans hoping one day the Cubs will win the big prize, The World Series.

Watching a Cubs night game at Wrigley Field (named after the chewing gum) is one the better ways to spend a summer evening here in the Windy City. It’s a bit like the rugby except it’s much warmer, beer is delivered to you in your seat, you get to sing during the 7^th inning stretch and there is 82 home games to watch from April through October.

Simon

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This is the question: Can we ever have some decent weather in Chicago.

Please show us the sun!

Folksey

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Chicago is the third largest city in the United States, with a population of nearly three million people. Its scenic lakeside location, world-class cultural offerings and unique architecture are just some of the reasons why Chicago is a great place to live and visit.

Chicago is home to…

• 237 square miles of land
• An estimated 2,896,016 residents
• Dozens of cultural institutions, historical sites and museums
• More than 200 theaters
• Nearly 200 art galleries
• More than 7,300 restaurants
• 77 community areas containing more than 100 neighborhoods
• 26 miles of lakefront
• 15 miles of bathing beaches
• 36 annual parades
• 19 miles of lakefront bicycle paths
• 552 parks
• United States President Barack Obama

Did you know…

• More than 45 million people visited Chicago in 2007!
• Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837.
• Chicago’s nicknames include: The Windy City, the City of Big Shoulders, the Second City, and The City That Works.
• The “Historic Route 66″ begins in Chicago at Grant Park on Adams Street in front of the Art Institute of Chicago.
• The Chicagoland area contains nearly 10 million people in three states - Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana - and is the 22nd largest metropolitan area in the world.
• Chicago is home to eleven Fortune 500 companies, while the rest of the metropolitan area hosts an additional 21 Fortune 500 companies.
• McCormick Place, Chicago’s premier convention center, offers the largest amount of exhibition space in North America (2.2 million square feet).
• The first Ferris wheel made its debut in Chicago at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Today, Navy Pier is home to a 15-story Ferris wheel, modeled after the original one.
• Chicago’s downtown area is known as “The Loop.” The nickname refers to the area encircled by the elevated (‘L’) train tracks.
• The game of 16-inch softball, which is played without gloves, was invented in Chicago.
• In 1900, Chicago successfully completed a massive and highly innovative engineering project - reversing the flow of the Chicago River so that it emptied into the Mississippi River instead of Lake Michigan. Each year, the Chicago River is dyed green to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
• The Art Institute of Chicago has one of the largest and most extensive collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the world. 
• Chicago was one of the first and largest municipalities to require public art as part of the renovation or construction of municipal buildings, with the passage of the Percentage-for-Arts Ordinance in 1978.
• The Chicago Cultural Center is the first free municipal cultural center in the U.S. and home to the world’s largest stained glass Tiffany dome.
• When it opened in 1991, the Harold Washington Library Center, with approximately 6.5 million books, was the world’s largest municipal library. 
• The Lincoln Park Zoo, one of only three major free zoos in the country, is the country’s oldest public zoo with an estimated annual attendance of three million.
• The Sears Tower is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at 110 stories high.
• The Sears Tower elevators are among the fastest in the world operating as fast as 1,600 feet per minute.
• Four states are visible from the Sear Tower Skydeck (Indiana, Illinois, Michigan & Wisconsin).
• The first steel rail road in the United States was produced in 1865.
• The first mail-order business, Montgomery Ward & Co., was established in 1872.
• The world’s first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Company, was built in 1885.
• The original Ferris wheel was built on the midway of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.
• The Adler Planetarium became the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere in 1930.
• The nation’s first blood bank was established in 1937 by Dr. Bernard Fantus at Cook County Hospital. 
• The first drive-in bank opened in 1946.
• Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1949.
• The remote control was invented in 1950. 
• The first Democratic National Convention televised coast-to-coast was held in 1952 at Chicago’s International Amphitheater. (The first televised Democratic National Convention, in 1948, only reached viewers in the Northeast.)
• Maria Callas made her U.S. debut at the Lyric Opera in 1954.
• The first televised U.S. presidential candidates’ debate was broadcast from Chicago’s CBS Studios on September 26, 1960, between John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Richard Milhous Nixon.
• Sen. Carol Moseley Braun became the country’s first female African-American U.S. senator in 1992.
• The late Mayor Richard J. Daley and current Mayor Richard M. Daley became the first father-son team to head the United States Conference of Mayors in 1996.

Folksey

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I have just returned (landed in Chicago late last night) from 2 weeks in NZ and some time in Sydney. As such this blog will be a little be random as my thoughts are still in another TimeZoneOne.

What is jet lag?

It is a physiological desynchronization caused by travel between different time zones.

The severity can vary according to the number of time zones crossed as well as the direction of travel-most people find it difficult to travel eastward (i.e., to adapt a shorter day as opposed to a longer one). The resulting symptoms include extreme fatigue, sleep disturbances, loss of concentration, disorientation, malaise, sluggishness, gastrointestinal upset, and loss of appetite.

In general, adjustment to a new time zone takes one day for each hour of time difference.

Well Done to the BancVue team…

During the last couple of weeks the TimeZoneOne BancVue team has been flat out getting the new campaign ready to market. This project has many moving parts and many deliverables but with hard work, creative thinking and a positive attitude we have broken the back of it. Upon my return to the office today I asked Hamish how he had been copying with the very late (1am) nights. See photo.

Lor on the road…..

This morning I caught up with Lor who also returned yesterday having had a week traveling around NZ with Patty.

How was the weather?

We had great weather. It only rained a couple of times when we were driving. It didn’t even rain in Doubtful Sound. (Where it rains 190 days a year, 230 feet annually).

Best moment?

We flew from Mt Cook on a small plane over the mountains and landed on the Franz Joseph Glacier. The landing was so soft and when the engine was off it was so quiet, nothing but clear sky and bright snow. The eerie blue ice of the glacier ice made it seem like we were standing on a huge slice of blue cheese. If only I had a giant cracker. 

How was the driving?

The driving went fine, although there is not as much hard shoulder as I would have liked. As the towns are quite small we had no traffic problems especially after I understood the ‘secret of the circle’.

One odd thing about NZ cars is that each time I went to indicate the windshield wipers went on.

Meet any good people?

I was on a jet boat going across Lake Horoko and the driver said ‘this lake is 98% fresh water’.

Another passenger asked ‘what is the other 2 percent?”

The driver replied, ‘fish shit’.

Gotta love kiwis.

5 Highlights…

1.       Mac Black beer

2.       See Mel in Queenstown, yelling at her until she couldn’t ignore me any more

3.       Getting slowly drunk on the wine tour

4.       Meeting Paul the Hump Ridge jet boat driver. Eating his BBQ.

5.       Paying $50 to see a 3D movie the Hermitage Hotel.

When biscuits become cookies….

A NZ trip always means a new office stock-up of biscuits. The aim is that our clients can get a wee taste of NZ when they visit, but they have to be quick as general office consumer is high.

Thanks to the Creative Team….

It was great to catch up with the C Team recently. Thanks to y’all for your hospitality.

Tatts

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Hi Everyone,

MadMen is one of my favorite shows on TV,  being in the Ad business it is a great look back at how this world worked in the 60’s and how much it has changed since this time…. and how much it hasn’t. With the US team in NZ this week I started to compare our Ad Men to the Mad Men of the show, and so with out further a do, I present to you The Mad Men Guide to TimeZoneOne. So print it out, pin it up, and the next time you call us timewarp back to the 60’s, poor yourself a strong 10.30am whiskey, light a cigarette, and do business the old school way….

Click on the image to embiggen it….

T

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