I love this aerial photo. Looking from north to south, downtown Evanston dominates the foreground and the downtown Chicago skyline anchors the background, with Lake Michigan to the east, a little over half a mile from my Evanston law office ("We are here"). And what does Richard Shapiro, Chicago property tax lawyer Chicago-Lake County tax appeal lawyer, have to do with this picture of Cook County real estate? It reveals where I was born, raised, live, work, love and play. I was born in Chicago about half a mile from the lake in the haze of the background, a little north of Wrigley Field, and I was raised in Rogers Park, 4 miles north of where I was born, 3 miles south of my Evanston office and roughly half a mile from the lake.