The Chicago River cuts through downtown Chicago and is home to the most moveable bridges in the world for any city. Starting from the top, here are the bridges featured in this photo: Franklin Street Bridge, Wells Street Bridge, LaSalle Street Bridge, Clark Street Bridge, and Dearborn Street Bridge.
A little bit of trivia about a couple of these bridges. The top bridge at Franklin Street was an important part of the 2005 film "Batman Begins" because it's the bridge that connects Gotham City with the Narrows. The 2nd bridge from the top (Wells Street) is the double decker extreme bridge. It carries three lanes of southbound traffic along with two sidewalks. The upper deck slams across two sets of CTA trains every day with the brown and purple. The bottom bridge (Dearborn Street) is the only bridge featured here that was not built between 1919 to 1929. It was constructed in 1962, and its straight-line modern style certainly proclaims that.
The Corn Cob towers (aka Marina City Towers) on the right serve as a natural framing device for this photo. Newly reconstructed Wacker Drive happily sits on the left.
One of my favorite parts of this photo (other than the nice number of bridges shown) is how the Chicago River at the top of the photo splits into two branches.
Oh wait, but there's more! In the very back of the photo are two sets of Metra tracks. The set on the ground leads into Union Station. The top set leads into Ogilvie Transportation Center. In fact look at the top tracks NOW! There's a train leaving Ogilvie right now! Well, it's just my guess that it's leaving seeing that this photo was taken in the afternoon. Oh, this was shot on the top floor of Hotel 71.
(This is the east branch of the Chicago River. For a similar view down the south branch, check out this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/spudart/2482844808). (And a shot of the same scene in but in a vertical format: www.flickr.com/photos/spudart/2943219167 )
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unlikelymoose 34 months ago | reply
I think it's pretty lame when someone leaves a vague comment and accompanies that vague comment with a giant image of one of their photos. It's an overbearing attempt at self-promotion.
yfukuda48 33 months ago | reply
Nice view of Chicago river from above.
lalalalalalaalalalalalaalalalalalaal [deleted] 32 months ago | reply
Great shot.
vasta 32 months ago | reply
How I miss this city. This photo makes me want to move there.
Paul v2.0 30 months ago | reply
spectacular image!
Riesling Dream 29 months ago | reply
good shot
gicol 29 months ago | reply
Excellent work!
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a beautiful perspective...
sunny-drunk 27 months ago | reply
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caprimulgiformes 27 months ago | reply
Amazing and spectacular!
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ratko.kaucic 25 months ago | reply
excellent work...
panti77 24 months ago | reply
hermosa
Fotoamateur62 23 months ago | reply
Great shot
majamaki 23 months ago | reply
Perfect timing, we are in chicago and we just had lunch on the river yesterday with a full view of that building!
thebomb17 20 months ago | reply
Great vantage point. Just keep the Transformers away.
Silver ArTiSt ~~~ 20 months ago | reply
Wonderful shOt !!
william eos 14 months ago | reply
Awesome shot!
Ubych 13 months ago | reply
amazing
jmogs 9 months ago | reply
This is a stunning shot. We'd love to have you add it to the goRiver pool!
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victor98_2001 8 months ago | reply
excellent shot
Mekitron 5 months ago | reply
How much it'll be loving if you allow me to use this photo on my website. I am doing work for humanity and collecting some photos for inspiration. Website is under construction actually. www.ancientwriter.com I and my would be wife are working on it.