Chicago Skyline, Illinois, United States: Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the third-most populous in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the seat of Cook County, Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area. Wikipedia
Chicago Skyline, U.S. state of Illinois, United States: Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the third-most populous in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area. Wikipedia
Ceres, Goddess of Grain, Chicago Board of Trade Building, USA
The female figure standing 45 stories above LaSalle Street is an iconic image for most Chicagoans. It depicts Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, in honor of the commodities exchanged in the Chicago Board of Trade building below.
The figure was sculpted by artist John H. Storrs, and though he employed a model with a very pretty face, the statue itself is faceless. Storrs reportedly thought that the building was so tall that no one would be able to see the statue's face; when the building was constructed in 1930, he couldn鈥檛 even imagine soaring structures such as the nearby 110-story Willis Tower.