At the NE corner of Michigan and Monroe right outside of Millennium Park, we happened upon a chess party! The “street performer” running the party was a guy named Cecil (who did give me permission to photograph and post pictures of him and his set-up) was wearing a reflective vest and challenging folks to chess.

We watched for about two hours, and he seemed to get a good crowd going. Looked like fun, but I was more interested in the water…