The Skyline Below from The Sky Above
The real Chicago Instagram comfort food isn’t comfort food, but the grateful snap, repeated by hundreds, across a dipping airplane wing or not, of the ligature of Lake lakefront where water ends land begins. In minutes, the descent to runway will lower and smooth, but it’s that glimpse of all the dazzle that shimmers across the gridded prairie, and onto sky-high buildings punching upward, at sunset, midday, dawn, in summer, in frozen hours. None are cliché. All purr: “Home.” The best of these are at winter’s crack, suspended for instants over pearlescent predawn Lake Michigan. Morning awaits. Chicago wakes. (Ray Pride)
Best of Chicago 2018
