The last stop of our Chicago tour was the Buckingham fountain in Grant Park. Anyone who hasn't recently crawled out from under a rock watched at least a few minutes of President-elect Obama's speech from Grant Park on election night. Millennium Park, which I've mentioned a bunch of times in recent postings, is actually part of Grant Park. Park park park. Buckingham fountain is very Versaillesque, which is not surprising since it was modeled after the Latona fountain in Versailles. Check out how pretty the fountain is at Christmas time, and how great the cityscape is behind it. I love a good fountain, but whenever I see one I can't help but want to see what's under the water. 
Is that strange or what? This desire was especially accute when I was watching the fountain in front of the Bellagio in Vegas. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!It wasn't until we took a walk through Grant Park that we realized why Chicago had been so busy during our prior trip just a few days earlier. Apparently, the park had been the venue for Lullapalooza, the Rock 'n' Roll fest that I was tragically not invited to perform in yet again this year. When will the organizers learn that car singing is a valid and marketable talent? I was stunned that the park had been cleaned so well in just one day, how do cities handle that so well? Surely all those Lullapaloozers left a whole bunch of rock-related trash behind, such as cigarette
lighters, black fingernail polish bottles and Whitesnake CDs. Strange how the citizens of Illinois are so good at cleaning up the trash in their parks, but not in their capitol building!
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