Christmas in Chicago! Both Lizzie and Gabriel are masterful cooks, which Sophia and I got to enjoy.The typical housing-type in this part of Chicago is a closely-spaced brick double-decker. There is ~5-foot gap between buildings, so they are not quite row-houses like San Francisco, D.C. and New York.However at this close spacing, the houses do form a continuous bounding space for the street, like row-house streets.The close spacing also means that front stoops form that distinctive ‘threshold’ space between the public street and the private house, like in Brooklyn and Harlem.At the major commercial street (Fullerton Ave), deeper commercial lots make a one-building transition from the perpendicular residential blocks.Similar to the Mission District in San Francisco and Queens or Brooklyn in NYC.I brought along a Singer Stitch & Sew in order to finish a few more masks as gifts. It worked great!
