2026 01 09: Downtown

A vertical city. Chicago, Illinois. December, 2025. © Clayton Hauck

I really need to get downtown more often. I love the layers and the hidden discoveries. On this day, it was a basement-level food court in a century-old building designed for a previous era when thousands of salary workers flooded the area for work, then fled back to the suburbs. These days, downtown is in search of a new identity.

-Clayton