Summer in the City: The Bride Wore White; the Bagpiper Plaid

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It's the kind of thing you encounter in a city big enough to serve as backdrop to the theater of life.  It began with the sighting of a bride and her groom walking past Quigley, in front of a bag-pied-piper leading the wedding party from an unknown church down Gold Coast streets.

 To a reception at the the Drake . . .

Chicago Streetscene: Hotel Housepets offer Service with a Snarl

Tough economic times and the increasing use of CGI in film production has reduced these two mythical beasts to working as greeters at the Drake.

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