Mostly qutie on the Mag Mile
The city at 5am is a very special thing. Quite. Dark. This morning is seemingly no different as taxis sputter down the street and buses huddle near their stops. But today is different - it's Black Friday. Up and down Michigan Avenue - Chicago's "Magnificent Mile" shopping corridor - lights are on and store workers can be glimpsed over the window displays nervously preparing for the coming onslaught.
As I suspected shopping in the city is different from suburban mall and big-box stores where things can quickly devolve into shoving matches between cranky bargain hunters. Here there aren't any lines and only a few shoppers huddle in front of the Water Tower Place Marshall Field's. But around town clusters of shoppers are starting to make their way up and down the street.
