{"id":254,"date":"2017-03-30T00:18:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T00:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plutchaknews.com\/newsroom\/?p=254"},"modified":"2017-03-30T00:18:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T00:18:41","slug":"photos-early-spring-walking-tour-through-the-gold-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plutchaknews.com\/newsroom\/2017\/03\/30\/photos-early-spring-walking-tour-through-the-gold-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Early spring walking tour through the Gold Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

GOLD COAST SHORE REPORT — The official first day of spring was March 20, 2017, so we’re already more than a week into it.<\/p>\n

It sure doesn’t feel like it, though.<\/p>\n

But even though we’ve endured weeks of grey and blah weather, we took advantage of the slowly warming temperatures to take a walking tour through the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the places we passed by:<\/p>\n

\"North
North Lake Shore Drive from the park across from the Drake Hotel.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The iconic Drake Hotel, with the Hancock tower behind it shrouded in fog.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Brownstones
Brownstones on the 80 block of E. Elm Street in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"The
The 1300 block of N. Astor St. in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The Mantonya flats on Dearborn was built in 1887 by builder Lucius B. Mantonya and architect Curd H. Gottig. It may have originally served as a single-family home. Unit No. 2 of the condos went on sale in early 2017 for $699,000.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The 100 block of East Bellevue Place in Chicago’s Gold Coast.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Photos by Dan Plutchak\/Gold Coast Shore Report<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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