So This place was created around 1908 by a landscape architect named Jens Jensen who designed most of the Chicago parks. In the realm of landscape architecture, he is a god.
In front of the Conservatory.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
This is a copy of Monet's garden at Giverny.
I think there must have been a competition as to what city could have the largest glass house. These here are pretty big!
Chihuly was here (remember that glass blower from Tacoma, WA?) Those water lilies are glass.
It's a beautiful facility, but the neighborhood is very bad. I heard a guy on the radio say he had a $400,000 mortgage in 2007 in Garfield Park and after the bust, the house next door to him sold for $20,000 so he quit paying his mortgage two years ago and since then he's never heard from the bank. The gurus on the radio were trying to figure that one out and decided the bank was glad he was at least living in the neighborhood and keeping his house up.
Too bad. We got out of that neighborhood fast.
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