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Originally Posted by ChiSoxRox
For a retro skyline, raise the limit to 605 feet and you get this gorgeousness:
(From the Charles W. Cushman Collection at Indiana U, full of time capsule pics like this)
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an incredible shot of a skyline long gone.
while the vast majority of the buildings in that picture still stand, they have been swallowed up whole by modern chicago.
the tallest tower in that pre-war pic, CBoT at 605' tall (on the left), is now only the
52nd tallest building in chicago, and dropping.