Chicago from the air

Spent about half the week where something resembling the rodent on this shirt resides at a trade show and visiting a customer:

(Sorry - couldn't resist.  This has been in the archives a while, but this seemed like a good time to use it).

Decent day to fly yesterday, and had the opportunity to snap a couple of shots of downtown Chicago while we were on final approach:

Not the clearest of days, but I always like this approach to O'hare.  When you are downtown, particularly at the base of either the Sears Tower or John Hancock Building looking up, there's quite a sense of vertigo while you try to get your mind around the size of the structure.

Then you see them (and the rest of downtown) from this perspective, and their apparent significance changes somewhat dramatically.