The Week in Pictures

One of those delightful new vending machines for the Chicago Tribune’s Red Eye tabloid is placed strategically outside the Starbucks at the Leo Burnett building. The Mayor ordered most newspaper vending boxes in the Loop removed to prevent anti-globalization fanatics from converting them into glass-breaking projectile weapons. However, Police Department officials allowed the Red Streak boxes to stay, concluding that most Lefty Lunatics would view the all-red globes as friendly and reassuring symbols of their utopian socialist dreamworld.

TrixieMale Mike Wilson and his boss Eddie Duncan, jog down Lincoln Avenue past the Gin Mill on a crisp Sunday morning. Since Eddie is the EVP and sits on the firm’s Compensation Committee, Mike was careful not to risk his year-end bonus by criticizing his bosses’ choice of jogging shorts.

Many Chicago-area charities face a cutthroat fundraising environment amidst the nation’s depressed economic climate. The Greater Chicago Food Depository, one the nation’s finest anti-hunger organizations, unveiled this billboard at Dearborn and Division as part of a clever new holiday advertising campaign. “By speaking the language of their target audience, subtly linking charitable contributions to trixie’s most daily consumer purchasing routine, this fundraising campaign should prove very, very succesful.” offered Shannon Doughtery, an MBA marketing student at Kellstadt. Visit www.chicagosfoodbank.org to learn how you can donate venti, too!

Trixie Katie Burnham flexes her muscles while running the 2002 Chicago Marathon. During her exhaustive training regimen, she always ran with her Golden Retriever Ty. But since race organizers prohibit canine participants, here she can be seen running with her fiance Brett Hanley and their best friend and neighbor Ruth Garrison-Watson (in orange). Many Trixies are afraid to run the grueling 23 mile Chicago Marathon, instead choosing more palatable events like the Turkey Trot or the LPTS SUV-Stroller Fun Run down Armitage.

Pottery Barn workers feverishly race to complete their own grueling marathon — decorating the flagship Michigan Avenue stores’ fabulous 35-foot Douglas Fir tree! Sales associates and managers spent over 5 hours delicately placing almost 400 different ornaments and sparkling strings of garland, as well as another 2 hours vacuuming up all the sharp, prickly needles from the floor. The tree is suspended with wire cables and a sturdy steel frame, to prevent wayward mobs of frenzied shoppers from knocking over this endearing symbol of Christmas joy and prosperity.