Day 44 (Tuesday, July 25)


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Apparently this big box thing is going to be a big deal. Today some people from the ACORN labor union team showed up to show their support for the ordinance at City Hall. I was on my way to a different assignment but then things changed and I was sent to City Hall. I wasn't alerted of the stuff going down at City Hall until it was pretty late. So I go there once things were pretty much over. I saw the last small group of people that showed up and I tried to shoot some photos of that, just so I can cover my ground.

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Luckily, I was able to find a few people there and I was able to make some images.

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Not long after that I headed out to ESPN Zone. That's where IndyCar racer Danica Patrick was giving a news conference. The local Chicagoan was in town to promote the upcoming Sept. 10 IndyCar Series race at Chicagoland Speedway.

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I was able to get some nice close-ups of Danica but the real photo came long after the news conference. I knew she was going to step outside and hand out some tickets to youngsters. So, I waited for more than an hour as she handled other business. Then she came out to greet the fans for about three minutes. That's when I made the following photo.

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It was good to wait. Because I was able to get a different type of photo. The kind of photo I know not all the other news photographers in this town were able to make.

I shot the above photo at McDonald's the other day. It was in preparation for the company's earns report that was set to come out this week. I found this cool place in downtown where there are two entrances to the restaurant. I hung out there for a while to make sure I got the photo I needed. It worked.

And it worked so well that the Chicago Tribune used it in today's Business page. Wooohooo!

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