Chicagoans can now use Apple's Express Transit feature to pay for bus rides and rides on the “L” train system with Apple Pay without having to wake or unlock their iPhone, or open an app.
Apple is marking Heart Month by offering a new Activity challenge on Apple Watch and related health-focused events in its brick-and-mortar stores in San Francisco, Chicago and New York.
A few days ago it was reported that Apple's flagship store in Chicago had dangerously began dropping snow and ice on visitors, causing surrounding areas to be closed off.
The roof of the store had been designed to look like the top of a MacBook, complete with Apple logo. When the story started spreading, the consensus was that this was just a poorly thought design by Apple. That the architects simply... forgot to think about winter. In Chicago.
Ahead of today's grand opening of its new Michigan Avenue outlet on Chicago’s riverfront, Apple published a batch of photographs of the store's interior and exterior, showing off its gorgeous storefront that perfectly blends into the surroundings.
Apple is putting finishing touches on a new store on Chicago's North Michigan Avenue and one particular design detail immediately jumped out at us: an Apple logo on the top center of the building, making the flagship store look as if a massive MacBook Air just landed.
“Our store on North Michigan Avenue has welcomed more than 23 million customers since it opened in 2003,” said Apple spokesman Nick Leahy in 2015. “We're now creating something even more remarkable for Chicago.”
As reported by Chicago publication DNAinfo, less than an hour later crews rolled up the logo and took it away. The logo did not appear on store renderings dated 2015.
It's unclear whether it will be reinstalled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmzPr106E7U
The upcoming 20,000-square-foot flagship outlet was designed by London-based Foster+Partners. As evidenced by the video, it consists of a huge glass box stretching from Pioneer Court to the riverfront.
Located on Pioneer Court, 401 North Michigan Avenue, the new store will, when complete, replace Apple's existing outlet on 679 North Michigan Avenue.
The Chicago store's attractive roof design reminds me of Apple's awesome-looking 20,000 square-foot retail outlet in Istanbul, Turkey, which too features a striking all-glass exterior with an Apple logo on its rooftop, as seen above.