Twice a year, on the fall and spring equinoxes, the sun sets perfectly framed by Chicago's skyscrapers. The perhaps unintended phenomenon takes its name from England's ancient monument Stonehenge.
, the twice yearly event occurs mainly due to the fact that"Chicago's streets line up almost perfectly with the cardinal east and west directions on a compass."
On all but two days of the year, because"the Earth's axis is tilted, sunlight is not always distributed equally" between the northern and southern hemisphere, the explanation continues. One hemisphere will have more daylight than the other. But"there are two times during the year when the Earth's equator receives most of the sunlight...
In 2019, with perfect early fall weather of partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the 60s, I timed my departure from NPR's Chicago bureau on Michigan Avenue at about 6:20 p.m. and walked east up an incline on Randolph Street, across from the north end ofSeveral dozen amateur photographers had already set themselves up on prime real estate in the road's median, on curbs and along a railing on an overpass above where the street separates into upper and lower levels.
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