Chicago Black & White · Chicago
The Great Hall
Union Station · Completed 1925
Photographed from a balcony above Chicago Union Station's Great Hall, this black-and-white image brings together the symmetry of the architecture, daylight from the vaulted glass ceiling, and the constant movement of passengers below.
A lone boy in the central aisle gives the immense room its human scale. Built for a city at the center of American rail travel, the hall remains what it has been for generations: a monumental place devoted to waiting.
