It was cold, rainy and close to midnight but I really wanted some pictures of downtown Chicago before heading back to Arizona in the morning. My sister obliged and chauffeured me around the heart of the city through the driving rain and waited in the car as I hopped out at location after location, hoping to capture small glimpses of what makes Chicago, Chicago. Here is one of those small glimpses. The rain had picked up and I could no longer shield my lens from getting wet, but it didn't matter, I was GOING to get some pictures of the famed Bean (Cloud Gate) at night. This is actually the only time I had ever seen the Bean without people swarming all about it, the moment was almost magical. I shouldn't have been surprised that other people would come by at this time on a rainy night, but I was. I was a bit taken a back when a few other small groups of weather braving tourists came into the frame of my lens posing for pictures in front of the Cloud Gate. Really, who else was crazy enough to go traipsing about downtown Chicago on such a cold and chilling night? None of the others stayed long and the rain picked up quickly. It was pouring soon, but I had gotten what I had come for, so I made a mad dash across Millennium Park as I tried to shield my camera from the rain and locate my sister's covert "parking spot".