A wide-angle helicopter flight around downtown Chicago

This is unedited footage from a 90-minute helicopter ride around Chicago — from Hyde Park to Wilmette. In this segment we start with a wide-angle lakefront view of downtown Chicago and head inland for a view from the north. We switched lenses for a closer look at downtown on later fly-arounds.

Joe and Jordan Zekas and our ace photographer Michael Kardas took off from Schaumburg earlier today and buzzed around Chicagoland, circling and going over the Loop half a dozen times along the way.

Check back in a few days for much more video, and head to YoChicago and Flickr for some of Kardas’ sure-to-be dazzling photos.

Many thanks to our great pilot Alan Muir of Schaumburg-based AM Air Service.

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