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Loop skyline from Grant Park railroad yards
View toward North Michigan Avenue and Loop skyscrapers from the Grant Park railroad yards (where Millennium Park is now located). 35 East Wacker Drive (originally Jewelers Building) is at the upper left.
1968
Lakefront at East Monroe Street
Aerial view looking east at Chicago Harbor, the Chicago Yacht Club, and Lake Michigan. East Monroe Street is visible on the lower right.
1972
Grant Park railroad yards and Loop buildings
View from the railroad yards in Grant Park toward Michigan Avenue and Loop high-rise buildings. At the left behind the trees is the Michigan Avenue National Bank Building (Michigan Boulevard Building), with the Chicago Public Library (Chicago Cultural Center) next to it to the right. Behind that is the United Insurance Building (1 E. Wacker).
1975
Auditorium building from Grant Park railroad yards
View towards the Auditorium building and adjacent Michigan Avenue buildings from over the railway yards in Grant Park.
1972
Hubbard Street Railway Yard and Near North Side
View from the Hubbard Street Yard of the Chicago & North Western Railway, with the Near North Side skyline beyond. On the left is the John Sexton Building, then a warehouse but now condominiums. Behind that is the John Hancock Center.
1970
Loop skyscrapers from railroad yards
View northwest from the railroad yard where Millennium Park is now located, toward Michigan Avenue and Loop skyscrapers. The Michigan Avenue National Bank Building (Michigan Boulevard Building) is visible at the left, with the Chicago Cultural Center next to it. The towers of the United Insurance Building (1 East Wacker Drive), 35 East Wacker Drive (Jewelers Building) and the Carbide & Carbon Building stand out among the group of Loop skyscrapers in the distance.
1968
Michigan Avenue from railroad yards in Grant Park
View of the Michigan Avenue "streetwall" from the railway yards in Grant Park. Illinois Central railway cars are in the foreground. The Congress Hotel is in the distance, and the Auditorium Building is next to it to the right.
1972
Michigan Avenue "streetwall" from Grant Park railroad yards
View of the Michigan Avenue "streetwall" from the railroad yard in Grant Park. In the center are the Gage Group buildings and Willoughby Tower.
1971
South Michigan Avenue from railroad yards
View of the Michigan Avenue "streetwall" seen from across railway land near Madison Street. The Smith, Gaylord, and Cross Building (20 N. Michigan Avenue), is on the far right. The McCormick Building (332 South Michigan Avenue) is the last high-rise visible on the left. The Mid-Continental Plaza (55 East Monroe Street) rises behind these Michigan Avenue buildings.
1984

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