Live Webcams in Chicago

Chicago, the city that invented the skyscraper, is best understood from above, and the live webcams in Chicago give that view: observation decks near the top of the Loop's towers, looking down on the river, the grid and the Lake Michigan shoreline, and the airport boxed into a single square mile of the south-west side, where runways this short make every landing worth watching. Chicago keeps Central Time, UTC−6 and UTC−5 in summer; the skyline is at its best in the hour after sunset, which is early morning in Europe, and the airport is busiest through the afternoon. The tower under the deck rises 1,451 feet to its roof and was the tallest building in the world for roughly 25 years after 1973. May to October is the season on the lakefront; winter off the lake is properly cold, and the air is clearer for it.