pic: Morning Fog

[Al Skierkiewicz]

This is one of those natural things that happens when the city sleeps. It lasted a total of about 15 minutes and then was gone. The picture is from our digital transmitter space on the 100th floor of Sears Tower looking northeast about 4:00AM. The building on the left in fog is the new Trump Tower (96 floors). The one on the right in the fog is the Aon Building (formerly the Standard Oil Building at 83 floors) and John Hancock (100 floors) is just out of the frame on the left. The building in the left foreground has towers on top that have no function. The person who was paying thought the building would look cooler with antennas so he had the architect add then to the design. Lake Michigan is of course in the background under the fog layer.
Trump Tower is a hotel and residence and is trying to get broadcasters to move their transmitters to it's location. The antenna "pipe" currently has no antennas. Hancock has been a broadcaster center since it was built but is eclipsed by the Sears Tower whose broadcasters find has no RF shadows cast be tall buildings that the others suffer from. Sears produces a significant shadow to the southwest of the city for broadcasters at the Hancock Center.