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Ken Tanaka
Guest
Chicago's Sun-Times Building (newspaper) was never designated a landmark. It was not an architectural masterpiece. It wasn't even very attractive. But in its relatively brief existence next to the Wrigley Building along the Chicago River it was unquestionably a prominent landmark to many generations of residents and tourists. If you've ever visited downtown Chicago with a camera chances are that you have at least one snapshot including the building.
More to the subject of this venue, some of Chicago's best photojournalists called this building their home base.
The Sun-Times Building, seen here through the lower deck of the Michigan Avenue Bridge, is being demolished to make way for a "Trump Tower", a typically garish, character-free Trump edifice housing breathtakingly expensive condominiums.
I am not a person who routinely bemoans the displacement of the old for the new. But, having spent most of my life in Chicago (not the suburbs of Chicago...the REAL Chicago) I will miss this homely building each time I cross the Michigan Avenue Bridge.
Leica M7
Leica Summilux 90mm f/2.0
Kodak BW400CN
More to the subject of this venue, some of Chicago's best photojournalists called this building their home base.
The Sun-Times Building, seen here through the lower deck of the Michigan Avenue Bridge, is being demolished to make way for a "Trump Tower", a typically garish, character-free Trump edifice housing breathtakingly expensive condominiums.
I am not a person who routinely bemoans the displacement of the old for the new. But, having spent most of my life in Chicago (not the suburbs of Chicago...the REAL Chicago) I will miss this homely building each time I cross the Michigan Avenue Bridge.
Leica M7
Leica Summilux 90mm f/2.0
Kodak BW400CN
