Illinois Rivers Run Through O’Hare International Airport
Photo exhibition in Terminal 5 carries viewers along the Illinois Waterway
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O’Hare International Airport is hosting a photo exhibition featuring severallarge-scale images from the acclaimed book A River Through Illinois, created by journalist Gary Marx and photographer Daniel Overturf. The exhibit presents a unique blend of portraits, landscapes and panoramic 360-degree photographs taken along the Illinois Waterway. A River Through Illinois is located in the west corridor of International Terminal 5 beyond security. The exhibit includes several seven- and eight-foot-long panoramic views of rivers throughout the state, as well as portraits of individuals. The subjects of Overturf’s images include sportsmen, bridge tenders, hotel and restaurant operators, workers, deckhands and river captains. The images take viewers from the urban landscape of Chicago to Illinois’ most rural areas. Several of the images depict places most people have never been — three hundred feet below the city into Chicago’s “Deep Tunnel” and into the wheelhouse of a towboat pushing a quarter-mile clutch of barges. Marx’s commentary, which accompanies each photograph, provides short stories or detailed information about the river. In some cases his text provides a lyrical interpretation of the photographic image. Overturf is an associate professor and former chair of the Department of Cinema and Photography at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His photographs have won numerous awards, and he has worked as a photographer and teacher in New Mexico, Kansas, Nevada, and Alberta, Canada. Marx is a writer and editor and an award-winning journalist now with the Kansas City Star. He has worked as a reporter, editor and columnist at several newspapers in the Midwest.
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