Net Pix

Since the photo-sharing Web site Flickr went online four years ago, it has amassed more than 2 billion photographic images—and nearly 1.9 million of them have a Chicago connection. From an earthbound angel to an eerie nocturnal landscape, here are 13 local pix that click.

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LEE BEY
(Flickr alias: chicagoeye)
Title: We Saw the Future. Didn't Like It
Where/When: Near 49th Street and Lake Park Avenue; April 23, 2005
Inspiration: There was a time when we couldn't wait for the future—and then the future came and it scared us. This view of 50-year-old towers designed to embrace the future AND set against a row of ten-year-old buildings designed to look like something from 1918 embodies that shift.

This article appears in the February 2008 issue of Chicago Magazine.

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