Today’s featured photo of the day! The feature is: Architecture – The Buildings of Chicago, Illinois

Here is today’s featured photo presentation of The Aon Center, Formerly known as the Amoco Building and then also the Standard Oil Building. To let the summer months REALLY shine, I am featuring fine photos of great architecture, so we can continue to honor the brighter side of life this year. Part 3 features the beauty of The Buildings of Chicago, Illinois, which also includes fine architecture like The Aon Center. The building was built originally in 1973. This was the tallest building in Chicago for less than one year, replacing briefly the “tallest”  award from the then John Hancock Center, now the 875 North Michigan Avenue Center. The then Sears Tower–now Willis Tower was completed in 1974, taking the award away from The Aon Center in less than a year’s time. Nowadays, The Aon Center is  it is the fourth-tallest building in Chicago, surpassed by Willis Tower being #1, Trump International Hotel and Tower, and the St Regis Chicago. The Aon Center is a modern, super-tall skyscraper just east of the Chicago Loop, designed by the architect firms Edward Durell Stone and The Perkins & Will partnership–opened directly in 1974 as the Standard Oil Building. It stands with 83 floors and a height of 1,136 feet. The building formerly housed the world headquarters of Aon Corporation and now defunct Amoco Corporation. Aon still maintains a headquarters of its U.S. operations there. The building also is one of the Kraft-Heinz Corporation’s co-headquarters. My photos, the first one being taken 40 years ago in July 1981–The Aon Center has come a long way since. You can see the building with more recent four and another even more recent photo, taken between 2016 to 2018. It is architecture like the The Aon Center that make the City of Chicago a very exquisite city–and among the unique and luxurious examples of the great staples throughout the City of Chicago. The Aon Center is another reason that makes the great city of Chicago it’s very own, and a great place to plan a vacation and visit for a relaxing and great summer afternoon! Date – July 1981.
Photo #1 taken with a Nikon ]EM-through a Nikon 26 mm lens, filter=Polarizer, Aperture=16 f/stop, shutter-speed 1/125th second, loaded with Ilford FP-4 Black & White 135 Negative Film ISO (ASA) 125 (fine grain) processed with D-76 Processing Chemicals, and a fiber paper print using the Kodak Professional “warm-tone” enlargement paper developed with Kodak Dektol chemicals onto a 3½x5″ matte-gloss print. Date – July 1981.
Photo #2 taken with a Alcatel Pop Astro digital camera through its factory lens– a 5 MP, filter=Not Possible, Aperture=Unpublished=Factory, shutter-speed Unpublished=Factory. Date – November – 2016.
Photo #3 taken with a Alcatel Pop Astro digital camera through its factory lens– a 5 MP, filter=Not Possible, Aperture=Unpublished=Factory, shutter-speed Unpublished=Factory. Date – November – 2016. (This is the photo I used for my banner on this blog and on social media)
Photo #4 taken with a Alcatel Pop Astro digital camera through its factory lens– a 5 MP, filter=Not Possible, Aperture=Unpublished=Factory, shutter-speed Unpublished=Factory. Date – November – 2016.
Photo #5 taken with a Alcatel Pop Astro digital camera through its factory lens– a 5 MP, filter=Not Possible, Aperture=Unpublished=Factory, shutter-speed Unpublished=Factory. Date – November – 2016.
Photo #6 taken with a Alcatel Pop Astro digital camera through its factory lens– a 5 MP, filter=Not Possible, Aperture=Unpublished=Factory, shutter-speed Unpublished=Factory. Date – April – 2018.

Another fine Architectural photograph to follow very soon: Feature – Part 3: The Buildings of Chicago, Illinois. It is going to be quite a summer, so join me ALL summer long! 

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