It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas (2011 edition, part 19) Dec25

It’s Beginning to Lo...

Merry Christmas!  This is the tree in the sunken plaza in front of the John Hancock Center that used to be an ice skating...

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas (2011 edition, part 18) Dec24

It’s Beginning to Lo...

If you want to create more last special Christmas moment for your children to remember, take them to the basement of the John Hancock Center (875 North Michigan Avenue), where the annual train display is running.  It’s a great annual tradition, and entirely...

It’s Beginning...

The John Hancock Center Christmas tree arrived overnight and sits in the plaza awaiting...

It’s Beginning...

Inspired by our series of posts about Christmas in Chicago, one of the usual suspects e-mailed in a few photos of her own.  It looks like the Christmas train display is now up and running in the basement of the John Hancock Center (875 North Michigan Avenue). If you haven’t been...

Best Buy’s Dat...

Buy has set a date to open its bi-level boutique in the John Hancock Center .  According to a news release on its web site, the electronics store will open Saturday, May 16th, 2009 at 10:00am. The Hancock Center Best Buy isn’t supposed to be like every other store.  It’s...

Inside the Michigan ...

Much to the delight of some, and the horror of others, a new Best Buy store is going to open inside the John Hancock Center just hours from now. The intrusion of yet another mall-class store into the formerly posh Magnificent Mile isn’t being taken lightly by nearby residents, but they...