All tagged Lake Street Bridge

Over the River

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Photographers always find new opportunities whenever a new building is completed.  150 North Riverside Plaza provides many opportunities given the elevated public space in back of the building and the promenade running along the Chicago River.  Once it opens, the Starbucks may also offer some interesting opportunities, but that will depend on the depth of the outlet.  

Saturday Bridge Lift

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Chicago is known for the sound of the electric blues, but long before Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Little Walter, and all the others plugged in, Chicago was an industrial center, home to foundries, transportation hubs, and animals headed through shuts to their slaughter. In the words of Carl Sandburg, the City of Broad Shoulders.  Emblematic of those shoulders are 27 or so bridges that tie one side of the Chicago River with the other.