Chicago Landmarks

Of course any great city has its landmarks, but not many have a greater number of significant ones than does Chicago. The city that was heavily damaged in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the same city which rebuilt bigger and better than ever, Chicago still has the landmark Water Tower right on Michigan Avenue, seen here through the empty branches of a winter morning. Michigan Avenue was named for the lake, as the street at that time was a lakefront avenue. When the cleanup of the fire was used as landfill on the east side of the street, Michigan Avenue was no longer on the lakefront. Grant Park was soon formed on a portion of the site, and still remains there. Within Grant Park is the wonderful Art Institute of Chicago (on the east side of the street) and the newer Millennium Park, just north of the Art Institute. The water tower is perhaps a mile north, and perhaps halfway between the park and the tower, the white facade of the Wrigley Building has a home on the west side of the street and on the north bank of the Chicago River.

Many wonderful skyline pictures show the collection, the flow, the pattern of the entire city. But these photos, like so many others, single out a feature and show it in a portrait. Wrigley and the Water Tower are two such photo stars.

Net post as promised will be far from Chicago, in Arizona, tomorrow night. See you from there!