Museum of Science and Industry

So they're all temporary buildings except for the ones that they decide, oh, we're going to keep those around.

Like Chicago has the Museum of Science and Industry now.

It was the Palace of Fine Arts back then.

This beautiful palace, beautiful palace, like thousand square foot palace sitting right on the hand dug out canals in Chicago.

And who knows how far out it went, right? You know, it might have went out a good amount, you know, and square footage could have been massive.

So all of this area was built out in two years' time.

All the way up here, all the way down Lakeshore Drive, all the way up here until we get past Soldier Field, even like from Soldier Field to the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry.

It's about a 30, 40 minute drive on the car with traffic in Chicago.

So we're very involved, especially during the season with a lot of the trunk and treats for the park districts and various other organizations.

And then bigger organizations like Navy Pier and the Museum of Science and Industry, and absolutely go to Boo at the zoo, at the Brookfield Zoo.

You'll see our treats there.

And don't miss this weekend's Upside Down Parade, where we're really proud to be

they deteriorated quickly after the fair was over, and arsonists burned most of them down in the following year.

The only one that remains is the Science and Industry Museum, because there you house major artworks.

And the galleries who were donating the work insisted that a permanent building be built.

But it looked real.

Like Sears Tower instead of Willis Tower.

Museum of Science and Industry instead of Griff Museum of Science and Industry.

Or, oh, I don't know.

How about North Central College instead of North Central University Naperville?

So just kind of basic geography.

Anyway, so I drove into Chicago, got off, went up Lakeshore Drive from the 60th Street down by the... museum of science and industry and uh the sun was just setting and it was the most beautiful bucolic scene it was a mid-september day you know there were boats out on the lake driving up by the buckingham uh fountain with all the people around there and the fountain was dramatically going in the skyline with the sun falling behind it and i drove up all the way up to diversity i got off there to go stay at a friend's house And man, it was such a beautiful first moment, especially after that low of thinking that I was arriving at Chicago.

It was actually Gary, Indiana.

So what a difference.

So we growing up had family in the Chicago suburbs in Skokie and Schaumburg, and we would drive from Minnesota to visit them.

And then we would do a city day and go to the Museum of Science and Industry or something touristy.

Great museum.

Amazing museum.

executives at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago wanted to figure out what the most popular exhibit was.

And they sent out a survey.

People were likely to mention snobbish exhibits that were scientifically

Both industry, it's actually more challenging in economics and the social sciences of does everything that exists, can everything that exists be measured? And in the social sciences, in academia, you learn as an undergraduate that everything that exists can be measured.

And then it's just a question of how good you are at operationally measuring something.

So, for example, many years ago, executives at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago wanted to figure out what the most popular exhibit was.

And they sent out a survey and the survey came back with all kinds of bias in it that people were likely to mention snobbish exhibits that were scientifically complicated that were in the museum.

But if you actually looked at those locations in the museum, there were not many people that typically frequented those exhibits.

They spent more than 700 days in hiding.

The recreation is at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

The exhibit features artifacts that offer a deeply personal look at life inside the annex.

And admission is free.