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Old Posted Mar 22, 2008, 2:09 AM
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Historic Chicago

I am creating this in hopes that people will contribute other historic pictures of the chicago skyline. I found most of these (on my first post) at AllPosters.com where they may be purchased. There are also a couple by Art Sinsabaugh.

I'll get it started...please post any historical skyline shots you have or can find.



















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Yay!! been waiting to find a thread like this for so long!

Here's my contribution, all photos from the Charles W.Cushman collection from the the good people at Indiana University Archives.
Taken mid forties.







































































































These are from the late 50's.




































Early 60's:


















































































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Old Posted Mar 23, 2008, 3:55 AM
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AWESOME!!!!! Thankyou For that!

A few more......





Comisky Park 1913

Lincoln and Robey 1910

State Street 1905

Wacker 1928
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this is a mind blowing thread
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Old Posted Mar 23, 2008, 5:14 PM
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Tribue Tower 1924

1927

Originally Posted by ethereal reality in the Chicago Spire Thread.
1930 shot before Lake Shore Drive Built.

1936

1939

Wacker and Dearborn 1950

1952

1955

1962

1964 From Van Buren L Stop

Marina City Construction
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WOW, Chicago is such an amazing city, I love old pics of supercities like Chicago.

Beautiful pics!

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This is nearly the same vantage point 78 years later. I took my picture last Friday.

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Not to many but here's a few i found























Sorry they're not bigger


here is link to where i got most of them
http://www.hellochicago.com/Photos_Panoramic.Cfm
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Amazing town, but very gritty, I know many of those towers started out white, the Mather tower looks almost black in one picture
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how many of those old towers were torn down?
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Old Posted Mar 24, 2008, 2:58 AM
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Another Set...

The FIRST City



1893 Worlds Fair

1902

1906

1906

1907

1907

McCormic Plant 1907

From Majestic Building c1907

1908 Jackson Park

c1910

c1910

US Army Tournament, Grant Park 1910

1912

1912

1912

1913

1913

1915

1918 Sept 8

1918 Sept 15

1921 Soldier Field...Not a skyline, but interesting...

c1926

1929 July 27 Cubs Field

1933 Century of Progress

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awesome thread. I love it.














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Ridiculous thread.

My parents wedding reception photos from 1972 prominantly feature the skeleton of the Standard Oil (Aon) building going up in the background out the windows.
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Damn this is a massive thread, it's going to take a while to go through it. Kudos to everyone who's posted.
And I've never seen a picture of the Hancock under construction, thanks for posting that one Cbot.

One of the things that struck me was, I've stayed in the Allerton Hotel before, now it's a small building that's lost among the skyscrapers, but it used to be one of the tallest in Streeterville. A building you never even notice anymore used to be a fixture of the skyline.
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Are they dumping extra snow into the river?
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Marina City 1968, pre IBM
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the beginnings of Illinois Center 1968.
above: notice the lights for the Wrigley Building on the small brick building in the foreground.




a rare shot of the northern side of the Prudential Building. You can see a
South Shore Line train emerging from beneath the building.

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Looking south towards Grant Park,
the future site of the Aon Building (Standard Oil Building)
You can see a bus traveling elevated Randolph Street

This would almost be your view from AQUA (in 1968)
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