FILMS
11:00 Polonia Triangle
(starting point)
11:50 N Oakley Blvd
12:15 N Artesian Ave
& W Lake St
12:40 W Wash.
& N Sacramento Blvd
13:10 Back alley near S Spaulding Ave
& W Harrison St
13:10 Back alley near S Spaulding Ave
& W Harrison St
13:25 W Arthington St
15:45 Empty field near S Cicero Ave & 32nd St
(Closest point to Midwest Generation's Crawford Station)
End of Compass Walk
PHOTO
11:45 N Oakley Blvd
& W Kinzie St
12:30 N California Ave
& W Washington Blvd
12:55 N Sacramento Blvd
& I-290
Compass Walk
(2011)
Marco Joubert & Kurt Peterson
DESCRIPTION
November 21, 2011.
A five-hour walk from Polonia Triangle in
Chicago, Illinois, to a piece of waste land
bordering the suburb of Cicero's eponymous
avenue, in an attempt to reach the
farthermost identifiable object on the horizon, as seen from the windows of Noble Square Coop's apartment 1810 (1165 North Milwaukee Avenue). A compass reading
for the chimney-like object would then
be used as a guideline to navigate through
the city grid, a new reading being taken
at each intersection or so. Keeping course
at 37° SW as best as possible led to a
partial success; a fenced industrial complex
preventing further advance marked the end of
the undertaking, a short distance away from
target, by then visible. visible.