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Ben Schumin is a professional photographer who captures the intricacies of daily life.

The Chase Tower, an office building in Chicago, Illinois.

Ben Schumin is a professional photographer who captures the intricacies of daily life. This image may be used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0. Please provide artist attribution, as well as a link to the original photo and to the license terms.

Steamed milk from Starbucks in a holiday cup [01]

Steamed milk from Starbucks in a holiday cup [02]

Trash can at Starbucks

Riding on CTA car 3440

Skokie Swift at Howard

Selfies on Cloud Gate [01]

Starbucks on North Lincoln Avenue [01]

Starbucks on North Lincoln Avenue [05]

Starbucks on North Lincoln Avenue [03]

Starbucks on North Lincoln Avenue [06]

Couple takes a selfie at the 875 North Michigan Avenue observation deck

Starbucks on North Lincoln Avenue [04]

Starbucks on North Lincoln Avenue [02]

Purple Line train at Davis station [01]

Starbucks on North Lincoln Avenue [07]

Selfies on Cloud Gate [02]

Former Skokie Swift cars

Brown Line train on Wells Street Bridge [01]

Tower 18 interlocking [01]

Purple Line train on Wells Street Bridge [03]

Selfie on CTA car 5436 [01]

Purple Line train on Wells Street Bridge [01]

Brown Line train on Wells Street Bridge [01]

Selfie on CTA car 5436 [03]

Selfie on CTA car 5436 [02]

Purple and Brown Line trains on the Wells Street Bridge

Wells Street Bridge

Purple Line train on Wells Street Bridge [02]

Selfie on CTA car 5436 [04]

Parking lot beneath the CTA tracks

Flags in Chicago

View east from Roosevelt platform

Rusted no parking sign in an alley [01]

View west from Roosevelt platform

Six feet on Cloud Gate

Chicago Police boat

Traffic on East Monroe Street

CTA bus 1620 at West Lawrence Avenue and North Oakley Avenue

Cloud Gate self portrait

Ammons Transportation school bus [01]

Family Matters House

Interstate 94 westbound [02]

Chicago-approved exit sign [02]

Ammons Transportation school bus [02]

Helicopter delivering a rooftop HVAC unit [01]

Beach along Lake Michigan [01]

Beach along Lake Michigan [02]

Purple Line train at Davis station [02]

Home Alone house [01]

Helicopter delivering a rooftop HVAC unit [03]

Garage of Home Alone house

John Hancock Center [03]

View from John Hancock Center [01]

Home Alone house [02]

Fire alarm speaker/strobe at Navy Pier

John Hancock Center and surrounding buildings

Helicopter delivering a rooftop HVAC unit [02]

View from John Hancock Center [01]

Helicopter delivering a rooftop HVAC unit [06]

CTA Quincy station

Helicopter delivering a rooftop HVAC unit [05]

View from John Hancock Center [01]

Traffic at a signal on North Lake Shore Drive

Three people on a pier

Partially eaten cake pop

Man laying on the beach in Chicago

Ft. Dearborn on the Chicago River [01]

Stairs sign in the lower lobby at 875 North Michigan Avenue [02]

Helicopter delivering a rooftop HVAC unit [04]

Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Chicago

Purple Line express train

Photographing a couple

North Avenue Beach

Exit sign in the lower lobby at 875 North Michigan Avenue

Stairs sign in the lower lobby at 875 North Michigan Avenue [01]

Elyse films the observatory elevator at 875 North Michigan Avenue

Dan Ryan Expressway

CTA Roosevelt station (Red Line)

Fire alarm strobe at the 875 North Michigan Avenue observatory [01]

Fullerton station

Tribune Tower [01]

Curved escalator at Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Chicago [02]

Garbage outside of a Walgreens

Child at Crown Fountain

Curved escalator at Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Chicago [03]

Fire alarm strobe at the 875 North Michigan Avenue observatory [02]

CTA California station (Green Line)

CTA Davis station [03]

Curved escalator at Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Chicago [01]

John Hancock Center exterior bracing

Water Tower Place [01]

John Hancock Center, with fog at the top [02]

CTA Red Line train arriving at Morse

View from observation deck at 875 North Michigan Avenue [10]

900 North Michigan Avenue

CTA Davis station [01]

View from Sears Tower [02]

Lifesaving rowboat [01]

John Hancock Center, with fog at the top [01]

Lighted arrow on Uncle Julio's building

Glenwood Sunday Market [05]

Sailboat on Lake Michigan

Aerial view from Clark Street Beach, facing south [04]

Brown Line at State/Lake station [02]

CTA Davis station [02]

John Hancock Center [01]

John Hancock Center [05]

Elevator indicator in the lobby at 875 North Michigan Avenue

Exit for Lake station

Aerial view from Clark Street Beach, facing south [03]

John Hancock Center [02]

John Hancock Center [07]

"THRU TRAFFIC PROHIBITED" sign at an alley entrance [02]

Carbide & Carbon Building

Tower 18 interlocking [03]

Dog swimming in Lake Michigan

CTA Red Line train at Belmont

Nonrevenue train passing by Jarvis station

Water Tower Place [02]

Water Tower Place [04]

John Hancock Center [06]

"THRU TRAFFIC PROHIBITED" sign at an alley entrance [01]

John Hancock Center [04]

Green Line train at Morgan Station

Brown Line at State/Lake station [01]

Orange Daylily [01]

Tower 18 interlocking [08]

Whole Foods in Lincoln Park

Tower 18 interlocking [04]

CTA bus stop sign at West Lawrence Avenue and North Oakley Avenue

"DO NOT FEED PIGEONS" sign [02]

Tower 18 interlocking [06]

Public notice for 2301 West Lawrence Avenue

View from observation deck at 875 North Michigan Avenue [06]

John Hancock Center and flags

View from observation deck at 875 North Michigan Avenue [17]

Tower 18 interlocking [05]

Tower 18 interlocking [07]

"DO NOT ENTER" sign with religious graffiti

View from observation deck at 875 North Michigan Avenue [08]

View from observation deck at 875 North Michigan Avenue [02]

Water Tower Place [03]

"DO NOT FEED PIGEONS" sign [01]

Taking photos at the Marilyn Monroe sculpture

View from John Hancock Center [01]

Fire alarm speaker/strobe at John Hancock Center

Alley parallel to North Lincoln Avenue

Chicago as viewed from the John Hancock Center [02]

View from observation deck at 875 North Michigan Avenue [05]

View from observation deck at 875 North Michigan Avenue [01]

Cloud Gate [03]

Cloud Gate [02]

Chicago as viewed from the John Hancock Center [01]

Cloud Gate [04]

View from observation deck at 875 North Michigan Avenue [03]

Cloud Gate [01]

View from observation deck at 875 North Michigan Avenue [09]

Graffiti on "L" train support

"NO OUTLET" sign at alley entrance

Chicago-approved exit sign [01]

2301 West Lawrence Avenue

Helicopter delivering a rooftop HVAC unit [07]

Interior of CTA car 5436 [02]

Interior of CTA car 5414

View from observation deck at 875 North Michigan Avenue [04]

Macy's at Water Tower Place [02]

"SPEED HUMP AHEAD" sign [01]

View from Sears Tower [01]

Turn restriction at North Michigan Avenue and East Chestnut Street

"NO TURN ON RED" sign at North Lincoln and West Wilson Avenues [01]

Train arriving at Jackson station

Graffiti on a utility box in an alley

Woman walking along Lake Michigan

"SPEED HUMP AHEAD" sign [02]

Simplex pull station at Museum of Science and Industry

Interior of CTA car 5436 [01]

Henry Crown Sports Pavilion

View from observation deck at 875 North Michigan Avenue [07]

Rusted no parking sign in an alley [02]

Concrete planters beneath the Brown Line tracks

"NO TURN ON RED" sign at North Lincoln and West Wilson Avenues [02]

Train departs Chicago station

Stairs sign at John Hancock Center

Quality Optical [03]

875 North Michigan Avenue [04]

875 North Michigan Avenue [02]

Interstate 94 westbound [01]

CloudBar at 875 North Michigan Avenue

Cloudy skies over Lake Michigan [01]

Dog retrieving an object in Lake Michigan [04]

Glenwood Sunday Market [01]

Two-way traffic sign on North Oakley Avenue [01]

Turn signage at the intersection of two alleys [02]

Two-way traffic sign on North Oakley Avenue [02]

View from observation deck at 875 North Michigan Avenue [11]

Alley speed limit sign

875 North Michigan Avenue [03]

View from observation deck at 875 North Michigan Avenue [16]

Tribune Tower [03]

Water tower at 30 East Wacker Place

Woman waiting for her dog

Tribune Tower [02]

Former Borders Books in Evanston, Illinois

View from observation deck at 875 North Michigan Avenue [12]

Turn signage at the intersection of two alleys [01]

Glenwood Sunday Market [02]

Damaged traffic signal in Evanston, Illinois [01]

Dog retrieving an object in Lake Michigan [01]

Damaged traffic signal in Evanston, Illinois [02]

Glenwood Sunday Market [04]

View from observation deck at 875 North Michigan Avenue [13]

Cloud Gate [01]

Dog retrieving an object in Lake Michigan [03]

Southern portion of Northwestern University

Glenwood Sunday Market [03]

COVID-era signage still in place at Jackson station

Wrigley Building [02]

Evanston, Illinois from over Lake Michigan [03]

Evanston, Illinois from over Lake Michigan [02]

Glenwood Sunday Market [04]

View of Chicago from Touhy Beach

View from John Hancock Center, facing southwest

875 North Michigan Avenue [01]

"Be barefoot, color barefoot, live barefoot"

Love and Peace Hybrid Tea Rose [02]

View from observation deck at 875 North Michigan Avenue [15]

Love and Peace Hybrid Tea Rose [01]

Traffic signal at West Lawrence Avenue and North Oakley Avenue [02]

Stand-up paddleboarding on Lake Michigan

Apartment buildings along East Lake Shore Drive

Ingrid Bergman Hybrid Tea Rose [01]

Dog retrieving an object in Lake Michigan [02]

Gorilla at the Lincoln Park Zoo [02]

InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile

View from observation deck at 875 North Michigan Avenue [14]

Glenwood Sunday Market [05]

Ingrid Bergman Hybrid Tea Rose [02]

Turk's Cap Lily

Van traverses a speed hump

Skylight in Chicago Union Station

North Lake Shore Drive and ramp from Michigan Avenue

Westbound Capitol Limited departing Martinsburg

Pavement markings for utility work

Cloudy skies over Lake Michigan [02]

Traffic signal at West Lawrence Avenue and North Oakley Avenue [03]

Ultra Violet Tropical Waterlily [02]

Cloud Gate [02]

Alley between North Claremont and North Oakley Avenues [03]

Stop sign graffiti

Yellow traffic signal

Chicago River from DuSable Bridge, facing southwest

View from John Hancock Center, facing northwest

"Stop and kiss"

Dog sniffing dead fish

Glenwood Sunday Market [06]

Traffic signal at West Lawrence Avenue and North Oakley Avenue [01]

Motorcycle riders on Touhy Avenue

Sidewalk graffiti on North Lincoln Avenue

Quality Optical [04]

Flag flying outside of Wintrust Bank

Glenwood Sunday Market [09]

Eastbound Capitol Limited at Martinsburg [01]

Lilli Marleen Floribunda Rose [03]

Day-Blooming Tropical Waterlily

CTA bus 4154 at West Jackson Boulevard and South Dearborn Street

Seagull near Lake Michigan

Ultra Violet Tropical Waterlily [01]

Honey Perfume Floribunda Rose

Glenwood Sunday Market [07]

Dog shakes itself off

Rosa Dainty Bess (with bee)

Hybrid Rugosa Rose [01]

Pedestrian call button at West Lawrence Avenue and North Oakley Avenue [01]

Rusted water tower [02]

Lilli Marleen Floribunda Rose [02]

Lifesaving rowboat [02]

Macy's at Water Tower Place [01]

Arc-en Ciel Waterlily

Selfie while stuck in a planter

Alley between North Claremont and North Oakley Avenues [02]

Scavenger service sign

"Log in and stay a while"

Quality Optical [02]

Glenwood Sunday Market [10]

Summer Wine Daylily [01]

Historic Route 66 sign

Pedestrian call button at West Lawrence Avenue and North Oakley Avenue [02]

Rusted water tower [01]

Summer Wine Daylily [02]

Glenwood Sunday Market [01]

American Water Lotus

Alley between North Claremont and North Oakley Avenues [01]

Hybrid Tea Rose

Discarded beer bottle at 2301 West Lawrence Avenue [02]

Duck at Chicago Botanic Garden

Golden Shower Threadleaf Coreopsis [02]

Westbound Capitol Limited at Martinsburg [02]

Quality Optical [01]

English Lavender

Glenwood Sunday Market [08]

Apartment balcony decorated for Halloween

Alley west of North Oakley Avenue [01]

Rusted water tower [03]

Cadillac Brougham D’Elegance [02]

English Shrub Rose

Purple Coneflower

Discarded beer bottle at 2301 West Lawrence Avenue [01]

Spike Gayfeather [01]

Lilli Marleen Floribunda Rose [01]

Hybrid Rugosa Rose [02]

Golden Shower Threadleaf Coreopsis [01]

Evanston, Illinois from over Lake Michigan [01]

Eight-car clearance marker

Alley west of North Oakley Avenue [02]

Utility worker in an alley

Chicago Union Station [04]

Black-Eyed Susan

Orange Daylily [03]

Rose Beauty Japanese Thistle

Alley west of North Oakley Avenue [03]

Chicago Union Station [03]

Fuji Blue Balloon Flower [01]

Cadillac Brougham D’Elegance [01]

Rat poster in an alley

Love Grandiflora Rose [02]

Love Grandiflora Rose [01]

Thunderbolt siren at North Milwaukee Avenue and Golf Road [03]

Candelabra Grandiflora Rose

Heron at Chicago Botanic Garden [01]

Speed hump in an alley west of North Oakley Avenue

Wheelock speaker strobe at Museum of Science and Industry

Chicago Union Station [01]

Montgomery Florist's Spiraea

Golf Mill Shopping Center [05]

Thunderbolt siren at North Milwaukee Avenue and Golf Road [02]

Matthew Allen Dahlia [02]

French fries from Cuckoo

Glenwood Sunday Market [02]

Golf Mill Shopping Center [07]

Fern Leaf Yarrow

Woman napping on the beach

Heron at Chicago Botanic Garden [02]

Spike Gayfeather [02]

Golf Mill Shopping Center [01]

Thunderbolt siren at North Milwaukee Avenue and Golf Road [01]

Glenwood Sunday Market [06]

Fuji Blue Balloon Flower [02]

Sunshine Hollyhock [03]

Eastbound Capitol Limited arrival at Martinsburg

Aerial view from Clark Street Beach, facing south [01]

Golf Mill Shopping Center [08]

Golf Mill Shopping Center [03]

Matthew Allen Dahlia [01]

Sunshine Hollyhock [01]

Chicago Union Station [05]

Traffic lights at North Avenue and Fremont Street

Chicago Union Station [02]

Dogs in Lake Michigan [02]

Korean Abelialeaf

Westbound Capitol Limited at Martinsburg [01]

Weathered poster on a utility pole

Moroccan Mountain Eryngo

Orange Daylily [02]

Cluster of wrapped cables

Eastbound Capitol Limited at Martinsburg [02]

Peruvian Lily [01]

Alaska Shasta Daisy

Eastbound Capitol Limited departing Martinsburg

Sunshine Hollyhock [02]

Directional sign at Jackson station

Golf Mill Shopping Center [06]

Autumn Colors Black-Eyed Susan

Electric meters on the back side of a shopping center [02]

Aerial view from Clark Street Beach, facing south [05]

Aerial view from Clark Street Beach, facing south [02]

Peruvian Lily [02]

Golf Mill Shopping Center [02]

Power line configuration sign on a utility pole

Tower 18 interlocking [02]

Golf Mill Shopping Center [04]

Steeple at St. Pauls United Church of Christ

Chicken Bibimbap from Cuckoo

Beef Shoyu Ramen from Kinton Ramen

Willis Tower [01]

Forever Marilyn statue

Amazon box containing free items

Water tower in Northbrook, Illinois

Electric meters on the back side of a shopping center [03]

Couple making out on the ice

Westbound Capitol Limited arrival at Martinsburg

Electric meters on the back side of a shopping center [04]

"STAIRS" sign at Ogilvie Transportation Center [02]

Red Line platform at Jackson station [01]

Willis Tower [02]

Main hall at Ogilvie Transportation Center

Dogs in Lake Michigan [01]

Light on the back of an apartment building

Dead and decaying fish

Six-car clearance marker

"STAIRS" sign at Ogilvie Transportation Center [01]

Flags outside the Willis Tower

Jarvis station platform

Elyse gives the finger

Elyse enjoys the CTA heat lamps at Howard [01]

Elyse hangs from a train

Carpenters Building

Electric meters on the back side of a shopping center [01]

Wrigley Building [01]

Leaves on a vine across a fence

Work vehicle at Jarvis station

Glenwood Sunday Market [08]

Clock at Ogilvie Transportation Center [01]

Maintenance vehicle just north of Davis Street station

Elyse enjoys the CTA heat lamps at Howard [02]

"Do not feed the birds" sign

Sign for Davis Theater [01]

Berwyn station platform

Glenwood Sunday Market [07]

Interior of Metra railcar

"Beware of dog" sign on a gate

Metra train arrives at Davis Street station

Sign for Davis Theater [02]

"Beware of attack flamingo" sign

Kyle poses for the camera

CTA signal A59 at Jackson station [01]

Glenwood Sunday Market [03]

Cloudy skies over Lake Michigan [04]

Red Line platform at Jackson station [02]

Chicago sewer manhole cover

"Sugar Beats" sticker on a lamppost

Selfie on North State Street

Elyse gives a look to the camera

FedEx truck on West Giddings Street

Clock at Ogilvie Transportation Center [02]

Platform at Ogilvie Transportation Center

Gorilla at the Lincoln Park Zoo [01]

Carpenters Building

Ft. Dearborn on the Chicago River [02]

CTA signal A59 at Jackson station [02]

Gas meters along an alley

Panhandler on North Milwaukee Avenue

Construction of SKYlofts building

Cloudy skies over Lake Michigan [03]

Willis Tower from West Jackson Boulevard and South Franklin Street [01]

Davis Street Metra station

Aerial view of northern Evanston and Wilmette

Clark Street Beach [01]

Allerton Hotel, viewed from the Starbucks Reserve Roastery [01]

Cloud Gate [03]

Willis Tower from West Jackson Boulevard and South Franklin Street [04]

Willis Tower from West Jackson Boulevard and South Franklin Street [03]

Fire alarm at Sherman Garden Apartments [02]

Willis Tower from West Jackson Boulevard and South Franklin Street [02]

Clark Street Beach [02]

Willis Tower from West Jackson Boulevard and South Franklin Street [05]

Discarded shirt in a parking lot

Allerton Hotel, viewed from the Starbucks Reserve Roastery [03]

Ostrich at the Lincoln Park Zoo [02]

Aerial view over Lake Michigan, facing east

Allerton Hotel, viewed from the Starbucks Reserve Roastery [02]

Recording of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Allerton Hotel, viewed from the Starbucks Reserve Roastery [04]

324 Davis Street

Fire alarm at Sherman Garden Apartments [01]

Elevator at Sherman Garden Apartments [02]

Hamburger University

Giraffe at Lincoln Park Zoo [01]

Elyse looks at the maps

Ostrich at the Lincoln Park Zoo [01]

Cloud Gate from beneath

Chicago Theatre sign from above [02]

Glasses on a rope

Fire alarm at Sherman Garden Apartments [03]

Chicago Theatre sign from above [01]

Full luggage cart

Lily at Lincoln Park Zoo

Sea gull at Lincoln Park Zoo

Aon Center, Chicago [03]

Giraffe at Lincoln Park Zoo [02]

Aon Center, Chicago [04]

Graffiti worm on Standard Club building [02]

Shopping list in the parking lot of Jewel-Osco

Elevator at Sherman Garden Apartments [01]

Aon Center, Chicago [01]

"SAFE SCHOOL ZONE" sign at Chicago and Wabash

Graffiti worm on Standard Club building [01]

Aon Center, Chicago [02]

Fire alarm at Sherman Garden Apartments [04]

Room 625 at the Hilton Garden Inn [03]

Lincoln Park Conservatory

Front desk at the Hilton Garden Inn in Evanston

Room 625 at the Hilton Garden Inn [05]

Room 625 at the Hilton Garden Inn [02]

TJ Maxx store in Skokie, Illinois

Elevator at Sherman Garden Apartments [05]

Room 625 at the Hilton Garden Inn [01]

Hibiscus at Navy Pier

Marker graffiti on a window

Elevator at Sherman Garden Apartments [03]

Menards in Niles, Illinois [02]

Menards in Niles, Illinois [01]

Room 625 at the Hilton Garden Inn [04]

Elevator at Sherman Garden Apartments [04]

Downward-pointing arrow on entrance to Jewel-Osco

Chris and Juni in Evanston

Elyse holds a cluster of balloons

Lighting at Menards in Niles, Illinois

Searchlight machine along North Clark Street

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Author: Ben Schumin

Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

Created on: Thursday 22 July 2010

Dimensions: 3400*2550

Albums: Photos by date / 2010
Photos by date / 2010 / Chicago, July 18-24, 2010
Photos by subject / Buildings and architecture / High-rise buildings
Photos by type / Creative Commons images

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