Skyline

Behold a photo of a rather small portion of the Chicago skyline, taken at night from across the bay at the planetarium.

Downtown Chicago was a banquet of architectural delights.  The Great Chicago Fire meant the whole city had to start all over from scratch, and over the decades the tall buildings went up in every style imaginable.  Beaux-arts, Gothic revival, Deco, lots of variations on the Mies Box, post-modern, post-this, post-that, post-everything.

And you can see them all.  New York has equally impressive buildings, I’m sure, but often as not you’re stuck in a concrete canyon and you can’t view much but the walls on either side.  Chicago has broad avenues, and of course the expanse of the Chicago River, so you can stand back and appreciate the variety rising up around you.

Remember, skyscrapers were invented here.

I enjoyed myself every time I went out of doors.