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For its June 1967 issue, National Geographic put Marina City on the cover. Seen through a fisheye lens, the view of the Chicago River from east of the Dearborn Street Bridge also appeared on a two-page spread – part of a 53-page article on Illinois.
(Below) World’s loftiest apartments. 588-foot towers of Marina City blaze with Christmas lighting. The darkened lower 20 floors house parking spaces, restaurants, a supermarket, and a basement marina on the Chicago River. Above these, pie-slice apartments soar another 40 stories. Camera’s Fisheye lens tilts the towers toward the gleaming shaft of the Wrigley Building, center, and the United of America Building, far right. Photograph by Bruce Dale.
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(Upper right corner) With the city for footlights, sky dancers twirl 52 stories high at Marina City. At this height, traffic tumult fades to silence and the view ranges into Indiana. Photograph by James L. Stanfield.
(Left) Closer view of sky dancers. Jewelers’ Building in distance at lower left.
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(Right) “Nation’s Freight Handler,” poet Carl Sandburg called Chicago, whose towers dwarf ships at Navy Pier. Today the exuberant mid-continent merchant, linked to the oceans by the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway, reaches out for the world’s freight. Photograph by James L. Stanfield.
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(Left) Navy Pier in 2009. Freighters have been replaced with sightseeing vessels, such as the Anita Dee II at lower left. Marina City is now hidden behind newer buildings such as 330 North Wabash and Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers. Equitable Building is now 401 North Michigan Avenue. Between it and Marina City now stands the 92-floor Trump International Hotel & Tower.
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Looping the Loop, 1967 and 2011. At left, a photo by James L. Stanfield, most likely from the Chicago Sun-Times Building, in the June 1967 issue of National Geographic. It shows an L train turning from Wabash Avenue left onto Lake Street. The photo was used to illustrate a 53-page article on Illinois. At right, the same angle from Trump International Hotel & Tower, 44 years later. (Photo by Steven Dahlman.)
From the article: A train wriggles from Wabash Avenue onto Lake Street along the “L,” the elevated railway. The Loop, 35 blocks encircled by the “L,” vibrates to the bustle of stores, offices, and hotels.
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