Bill then took us to lunch at the swank Metropolitan Club in the Willis building.
Being with him again made me realize how much I have missed sitting next to him at baseball games where he can rattle off any stat you want..a walking baseball encyclopedia and a great friend.”
“Up in the Sky Deck among the photos of famous Chicagoans I passed this picture of Studs Turkel and couldn’t resist taking this picture. Studs, the writer/journalist, was a beloved Chicago fixture. He played a cab driver in my movie “The Dollmaker,” which partly filmed in Chicago (in the winter).”
Butterfly Haven
After lunch, we visited the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum where we were looking forward to and spent most of the time in the “Judy Istock Butterfly Haven”. All of us are partial to butterflies and definitely could have stayed for a few hours. The butterflies fly freely in the room, and it is clear that there are children in the exhibit who are having this close experience with butterflies for the first time.
Every afternoon around 2PM they release the newly hatched and ready to fly
We arrived just in time to see
Outside of the Haven room, are some chrysalis getting ready to ‘hatch.’
