The elevated trains are iconic to Chicago. While they can also be found in small parts of New York City and Philadelphia (and not long ago Boston), they are prominent throughout the downtown of Chicago, Illinois. Streets run right underneath them, and while driving you have to take care not to strike into one of its many support beams that divide the travel lanes below! While The Wild Images Team was exploring downtown Chicago, we decided that we wanted to capture an image of the elevated trains and tracks as a signature photo of Chicago. So we spent many days looking for the best spot for the composition. We determined the intersection of South Wabash Street and East Van Buren Avenue to be the choice spot. And of course we wanted the scene to include an actual train passing through, so we waited until the right moment to capture this photo. Unfortunately, elevated trains are noisy and the early scenes of the movie The Blues Brothers attests to this, and many cities have removed them in previous decades. But fortunately they continue to be a part of the culture in Chicago. The Wild Images Team has captured many other photos throughout downtown Chicago, including the blue skyscrapers of The Grant and One Museum Park, which is available for sale in our store. Blog posts from Chicago have documented the view of the Wabash Avenue elevated train, the ornate art deco brown buildings of old town Chicago, the interesting curious foxes of the small green space, when The Wild Images Team Coordinator Christina sat at the stone desk, the hidden colorful fire escape framed by trees, the day The Wild Images Team finally found the heart of Chicago, the moment when giant headless zombies took over Grant Park, and at the head of the Navy Pier where sits the bronze sculpture Captain On The Helm. Blog posts from the nearby state of Minnesota include the moment that The Wild Images Team Coordinator Christina becomes the Jolly Green Giant, the moment that The Wild Images Team Coordinator Christina becomes the Little Green Sprout, and a scene of The Wild Images Team Coordinator Christina underneath a life size Jolly Green Giant. Blog posts from the somewhat nearby state of Texas include the art created by the line of sunken monuments at Cadillac Ranch and the textures created by thick layers of paint covering the monuments at Cadillac Ranch. A blog post from nearby state of Missouri includes the Route 66 sign of The Uranus Fudge Factory.
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