[casaguy]

1. Heller International Building

2. Citibank Building (was originally criticized for looking like a cash register)

3. Boeing Headquarters

4. Merchandise Mart / 300 North LaSalle

5. Merchandise Mart (Baby, look at that detail!)

6. Carbide and Carbon Building (left)

7. Wrigley and Chicago Tribune Buildings on N. Michigan Ave.

8. Unsure

9. Lake Point Tower

10. Aqua and her neighbours

11. Aqua and her neighbours

12. Looking up the Magnificent Mile: 900 N. Michigan Ave. (center)

13. Buildings along the Magnificent Mile: Park Tower (left) / 900 N. Michigan Avenue (right)

14. John Hancock Center (left) / Water Tower Place (right)

15. View from the top of the Sears/Willis Tower

16. View from the top of the Sears/Willis Tower

17. View from the top of the Sears/Willis Tower

18. View from the top of the Sears/Willis Tower

19. Palmer House Hotel (her heft is very impressive in person)

20. New condos near Grant Park and the Shedd Aquarium

21. Harbor Point Tower (darkest one) / Lake Point Tower (far right)

22. Two Prudential Plaza / Aon Center / Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower / 340 on the Park

23. The Heritage at Millennium Park / Smurfit-Stone Building / One Prudential Plaza

24. Walkway into Millennium Park

25. I'm reminded of the remake to "War of the Worlds" here

26. Trump Tower rises above N.Wabash Street

27. Fire escape on the back of The People's Gas Building

28. N. Michigan Avenue at Grant Park with the Prudential Building on the left
and the Standard Oil Building (now Aon Center) along with new waterfront
building construction.

29. Blue Cross and Blue Shield Building / 340 on the Park

30. The Legacy at Millennium Park

31. Looking down E. Monroe Street (I think)

32. Guardian of the Art Institute

33. People's Gas Building

34. The Legacy at Millennium Park (right)

35. Inside the Art Institute

36. Looking down East Adams Street

37. Metropolitan Tower (310 S Michigan Ave) / Santa Fe Building (224 S Michigan Ave)

38. Santa Fe Building (left)

39. People's Gas Building

40. People's Gas Building and neighbours

41. People's Gas Building and neighbours

42. Facades along South Michigan Avenue

43. Aon Center / Aqua

44. A beauty along S. Michigan Ave.

45. More along S. Michigan Ave.

46. Looking N on N. Michigan Avenue near the Art Institute (Museum).

47. Millennium Park

48. Millennium Park

49. Millennium Park

Part 3 is here.

 

[Long Island Mike]

CHICAGO Part Two...Our Kind of Town!

CG: For Part Two I recognize these:
2-Citibank Building constructed on site of old North Western Station now known as Ogilvie Transportation Center where METRA/Union Pacific now operates under contract the former C&NW North,Northwest and West lines.
4,5 Merchandise Mart including a close-up - a 30s era Chicago classic!
7-Wrigley and Chicago Tribune Buildings on N.Michigan Avenue-Classics again!
9-Lake Point Tower-early 70s era I believe.
14-John Hancock Center,Water Tower Place and the old classic Water Tower Pumping Station(The Water Tower itself is just to the W across N.Michigan Avenue)below-good memories for me there! The one question I have : Is the Chicago Visitors Center still housed there as I recall?
15-18 Atop the Sears Tower-Not the best weather but the view makes up for that...
20,22,23,24-Pics from the Grant/Milennium Park area...
25-Calder Stabile near 70s era Post Office...
26-Trump Tower rises above N.Wabash Street...
28-N.Michigan Avenue at Grant Park with the Prudential Building on the left
and the Standard Oil Building(now Aon Center) along with new waterfront
building construction...
30-A interesting contrast of old and new here-details if you know?
46-Looking N on N.Michigan Avenue near the Art Institute(Museum)...
47-49 Millenium Park art additions...
That concludes my thoughts on Part Two. LI MIKE

 

[casaguy]

Thanks Mike... I was hoping to go back and caption them all properly eventually... your list is a very big help!

 

[junctionist]

The grandeur has apparently left nearly everyone speechless. Millennium Park is a tour de force!

 

[Build Up]

Casaguy did you end up going on the sears tower glass floor overhang thing? When i was there in august i did it and it was so scary. Way more than the cn tower one.

 

[casaguy]

We tried to get to the glass floor/overhang but it was too crowded.