Saturday night I was in bed scrolling through Instragram and I came upon a post by @bbkohmy (Anthony Alfaro) showing a monument to the 17th Century Fr. Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit priest and explorer, on Damen Ave. in Chicago.
Wait, What? A memorial monument to Fr. Marquette on Damen Avenue? I gotta see that. I sent a message off to Mr. Alfaro for the exact address. He responded right away with 2618 S. Damen.
I got up the next morning and got my stuff together. I decided to make a little movie about the adventure and take some photos.
I wanted some stuff to talk about in the movie so I thought I would also stop and get some photos of some other Marquette related stuff like Marquette Park, Marquette Road, Marquette Bank and the Marquette Building. But I wasn’t going to drive up to Milwaukee just to get a couple photos of the University. You will just have to trust me.
The movie proved a little challenging to produce. I thought I would use it as a chance to try Adobe’s Premiere Pro again and teach myself how to make rudimentary videos. I tried doing it several years ago but it just took too much time. However, with the football and basketball season coming up I would like to add some video component to my coverage. It turns out that my computer is too weak to support the new Premiere Pro drivers so that put an end to that. I would have to use the GoPro software that I already have and know how to use.
So here are the photos and the movie. I hope you like them.
[Editor’s note—This post does not contain the movie. This post, originally authored on July 13, 2020, has remained a draft for four and a half years at the bottom of my list of draft posts long ago overtaken by events, persumably because I never finished making the movie. Until this Christmas morning, that is. I was poking around my website looking to post the “Best of 2025.” So here you go! I posting the story about one of my favorite places in Chicago. I really should to the movie. Maybe some day.
Merry Christmas.]
