Michigan Avenue in Chicago mid 1980s

This is a photo that was donated to the Everything Vintage project and although I could tell it was the United States, I wasn’t sure exactly where, so I asked Chatgpt to try to work it out. The answer is that it is Michigan Avenue in Chicago. The evidence given is:

You’re looking north along Michigan Avenue in Chicago, near Grant Park.

The big giveaway is the tall slab-sided building on the right with the red “Prudential” sign on top. That’s the Prudential Building (also known as Prudential Plaza I), completed in 1955 and one of the dominant modernist landmarks on Michigan Avenue for decades.

Just behind and slightly left of it is the darker Aon Center’s predecessor era skyline context (before its later white marble cladding), and further left you can glimpse older Art Deco and Beaux-Arts buildings typical of the Loop.