Grant Park Modern View National Park With the wildfires in Colorado

With the wildfires in Colorado (most of which are either at or nearing 100% containment) there are just a fraction of the normal fireworks display around Denver for the 4th of July

and as I stood at the bottom I noticed the pattern of the steps as well as how they flowed into the distance as shown in this image

As the sky turned to dusk I looked for images of the building as it lit up for the evening

At the time he was mayor of Denver

I had use this structure as a foreground in the past

Grant Park Modern View National Park With the wildfires in ColoradoGrowing up in the Chicago area it is always interesting to revisit the city to see how it has changed over the years. As I remember visiting Grant Park in my youth and also in my college years as my parents lived downtown, I can easily see the old blending in with the new around the city. This building is the Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower just north of the park. What is interesting for this building is that it was completed and then a few years later