Another slow start which was delicious and then we headed to the west side of the city to see Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity temple building. Wonderful church, very angular and in need of restoration but fabulous to see it and touch it.
Then past the Ernest Hemingway museum and into the Hispanic area of town for a cuban sandwich before visiting an incredibly interesting school. Its a charter school - state funded but now with its own independent charter etc. They ahve recived initital funding to restore buildings and now in thrid year of new school with uniform codes, responsiblity and behaviuoral codes and prime prupose to get students to u iversity. Incredbily well presented studnets and it was an impressive institution. Apparently tehre are 600 shcools in inner city Chicago, 162 High Schools and this charter shcool si ranked 10th in the city!
anyway it was tehn home to one of our host families who hosted a fabulous sit down three course meal around a huge dining table. it was a wonderful night.
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