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View of Chicago from America's third tallest building, the AON Center

The 80th floor of the AON Center has fantastic views. As of now, it's the 3rd tallest building in America. (Sears Tower, Empire State Building, AON Center). The 80th floor is not open to the public, instead, it's leased to the Mid-America Club. I was granted access to this exclusive area, because my employer had our annual awards ceremony up there. It was the perfect day for photos in March 2008. Early enough in the year were smog is minimized, yet it was one of the first days of the year to have the sun shining.

Here's my collection of photos taken atop the AON Center:

Prudential Two spire and Carbide & Carbon building spire Detail of Smurfit-Stone building's roof Prudential Two spire close-up

Chicago Skyline: northwest from AON Center Trump Tower and IBM Building are good friends Chicago's Mather Tower against the Trump Tower

Chicago lakeshore: view south from AON Center Sears Tower stands tall and alone


Posted by: spudart on May 21, 08 | 5:00 am  |   [2721] Hits  |   permalink

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Empire State building is in New York. ;-)
Great pics though.

Posted by: Alice on May 21, 08 | 11:16 am


Alice, yes. And New York is in America.

Posted by: spudart on May 21, 08 | 11:20 am


those are GORGEOUS!!!

Posted by: Angie on May 21, 08 | 12:42 pm


Angie, Thanks! I'm very pleased how they look together. I also got a bunch of 8x10 prints made, and they look SO good. I'm gonna try getting 20x30 printed of some. I'm hoping they turn out ok.

Posted by: spudart on May 21, 08 | 2:27 pm


Spudz! Omg! I love the b/w ones. Remember when we were talking about putting pix in a series? Those would be a good series :-)

Posted by: Lisa on May 22, 08 | 3:10 pm


Amazing photos.. are they HRD ?

Posted by: Theatons Toys on May 28, 08 | 7:52 am


Theatons, they are HDR photos (High Dynamic Range).

Posted by: spudart on May 28, 08 | 9:26 am


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