We're excited for all the upcoming things to see here in Chicago when the Burnham Plan's 100th anniversary celebrations start (including the landing of Zaha Hadid's latest spaceship). Now, upon learning of its building, we're eager to see the scale model of the city being constructed by the Chicago Architecture Foundation, which will be placed in the lobby where the Foundation is located, in the South Loop, from June 11th to November 20th. We're suckers for scale models of most anything (visit this writer's parents' house to see a very large collection of poorly assembled model airplanes), and seeing a three foot tall Sears Tower sounds like the nerdy field trip we've been dreaming about since we were in short pants. But perhaps the best part about learning of the model's existence was learning why it was commissioned: our beloved Mayor, Richard Daley, saw some scale models in Beijing and Shanghai and decided we needed one too. You'd probably have to be a little familiar with our avuncular, goofy Mayor to understand why this seems so fitting and so great, but if you know the man, you can almost hear him in a meeting saying "Did you see those city models those guys had?! We have to have one of those! They have them! I mean, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, let's get a city model!" After the Olympics and the Sox winning the pennant, we imagine that this is the third most excited he's ever been about something.