Chicago Fire

Well, we're pretty out-of-the-loop when it comes to current television series, so when flyers with the heading "Chicago Fire" started showing up all around the block, we just kind of assumed it was an announcement from the Chicago Fire Department.  The announcement said something about cars needing to be cleared from the south side of our street for several days while the area was prepped for filming.  We didn't know what they were going to be filming, but just assumed it probably wasn't anything that exciting.  It didn't seem like much was going on, but we did notice several security men at various locations on our block and we noticed some work being done on the building next to ours (branches were being torn down from the trees and there were guys in a big cherry picker truck doing some work on the windows in the upper floors of the building).

Then last night we took a walk to get ice cream and noticed that the signs had changed.  They were now warning everyone that the street would be closed and that all cars needed to be removed for filming to take place.  The flyers also warned that the filming would involve fire and smoke simulations from the windows of this building. When James left for campus this morning he texted me to tell me that I really needed to take Jesse to go check out what was going on next door. Of course, by this time we had also figured out that "Chicago Fire" is an NBC television drama that will be beginning its second season this fall.

Anyway, it was fun to see the filming crew and the actors/actresses as they were filming.  The crowd of onlookers kept having to be moved so that we wouldn't appear in the show.  At one point Jesse got hungry and wanted to go back in for a snack, but he requested that we take the snacks back outside to keep watching the fire.