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So, I had a kind of busy weekend. <\/p>\n

My folks bought a new car a while back and gave us their old station wagon, so we’ll now be a two-car household. We don’t expect to use the additional car a lot, but it’s nice to have for logistical reasons.<\/p>\n

So, we got all the paperwork taken care of on Friday. I took the Metra train to Union Station downtown in the late afternoon, for purposes of taking the Amtrak train down to Springfield, where I would pick up the car and drive it back the following day.<\/p>\n

The way the train schedules worked out, I had about an hour and a half to putter about at Union Station while I waited for my train to Springfield to depart.<\/p>\n

As I have mentioned before, I started out a new audio blog<\/a> that consists of posts of one or a handful of musical notes, often recorded from the surrounding environment. Never to be an unprepared blogger, I had my recently-purchased digital voice recorder with me to record any interesting musical sounds. I also had my digital camera with me for the trip.<\/p>\n

I really love the Great Hall in Union Station, and sat there for a spell during my wait. While I was there, I took a few pictures and recorded some audio of my time there.<\/p>\n

This gives you a nice idea of the size of the room. And it’s in the goddamned US of A, in case you didn’t see that big flag.
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I just panned the camera a bit to the right to capture this lovely view.<\/span>
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The roof of the Great Hall. It lets in some very filtered light, which actually makes the whole room feel a bit sad.<\/span>
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Panning the camera a little more to the right and we see the stone steps famously used in a sequence in Brian DePalma’s Untouchables. You may remember that a baby carriage was a major component of the scene. It just so happened that the baby carriage in the photo had just been pushed (gently) down the steps.<\/span>
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A casualty of the cellphone era. A bank of payphones, only a couple of them operable.<\/span>
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Here’s the audio I captured. It’s about a minute and a half, and is appropriately directionless and echoey.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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