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Chicago from forty thousand feet

Forty thousand feet above, a green and white 747 is trespassing the cold sky above down south. Over 2,6 million people in the city alone and many millions more in the grown-together cities and areas that seem like one, big glowing metropolis from above. I estimate this image captured roughly ten million people in total, sleeping, working, living.

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Date Taken: 11.2020
Date Uploaded: 11.2020
Photo Location: Chicago, Michigan, United States of America
Copyright: © Christiaan van Heijst