by Robert D. Hughes
In this photo looking northwest from the Adler Planetarium, the tallest building on the left is the Sears Tower, and the tallest building on the right is the Aon Center, formerly the Standard Oil Building. The line of trees below the buildings are in Grant Park. The sailboats are in Monroe Harbor.
I took this photo of the Chicago skyline from the Adler Planetarium on July 15, 2004. You're welcome to download this image and set it as your desktop's wallpaper. I resized the image in Photoshop to fit on this page, so don't worry about it not being large enough to span your desktop - it's plenty big. The wavy lines on some of the buildings are just an artifact of resizing, and don't show up when the image is viewed at full size.
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| Width: | 1400 pixels |
| Height: | 1050 pixels |
| Type: | jpg |
| Size: | 204 kilobytes |
Note: A larger size (2048 x 1536 pixels) of this image, more appropriate for printing, is available for sale (United States only). Please contact me for more information.