Sights of Chicago...

We visited the Chicago Cultural Center. It's an impressive building completed in 1897 as a memorial to the Civil War Union Army, which by the way won the war and as a meeting hall for vets It was also the cities first public library. It cost nearly 2 mil back then. I guess they are still paying the note because it seems that I recall someone said you could rent the Grand Army of the Republic Rotunda and Memorial Hall, pictured below for your wedding at the going rate of $50,000. And they don't cater or decorate either. This building was originally built to show how sophisticated Chicago had become. I judge from the price they are still sophisticated.     

The sky light entering the hall. It's purposefully meant to set a dark, sad tone

No she did not fall or have to take a nap. Just getting a better photo. 

This is the skylight in the Preston Bradly hall. He was a famous Chicago theologian and it's the largest Tiffany stained glass in the world. My photo did not do it justice as to color but it's a pattern of fish scales. It was worked on by women as they were thought to be the best at attention to detail and maybe still are.