Thanks to a sweet deal from Groupon, I got a trip to the top of the John Hancock tower for $1 and a front row seat to watch billows of creepy fog finger their way through the high rises of downtown Chicago from 94 stories up.
And for the record, I do have to agree with the consensus of Chicagoans that the view from the Hancock tower is far superior to the Sears Tower (and don't even think of calling it the Willis Tower!)
Instead of the idyllic blues of Lake Michigan, there was nothing but rolling masses of fog off the coast as far as the eye could see. Here it is swallowing up Streeterville.
The overeager PR types at the Sears Tower just couldn't deal when someone else built a taller building, so they got the Guinness Book of World Records to officially declare their building the World's Largest Building with Antennae. No kidding.
Dude, the fog is so legit!! I love that last picture!
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I often feel like I have my feet planted in two worlds [in the photo photo below, literally one foot each in former East and West Berlin]. I'm an American and a Berliner. A citizen of Heaven and a resident of Earth. This is my story.