CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The sun sets every day, but some days in Chicago's Loop it gets more attention than others.
Photographers - professionals and amateurs - were seen all over downtown between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday to try and get the perfect shot of a rare phenomenon - the dramatic alignment of the setting sun and Chicago's "L" trains and skyscrapers.
They call it "Chicago Henge," like Stonehenge.
Erica Przyblinski was among those armed with a camera at the intersection of Lake and Stetson, pointing her lens to the west.
"Twice a year during the spring equinox and the fall equinox the way the Earth is positioned the sun sets and rises along the streets of Chicago so it's a clear shot when the sun sets and when it comes up," she said.
Juan Sanchez is from Arkansas and said he's used to seeing the sun set on the mountains, but said this was pretty cool.
"I was driving by and saw the photographers and then saw the sunset and said 'oh my God' it's an awesome shot," he said.
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Samantha Malone moved to Chicago from San Francisco just a few weeks ago and said she rarely sees sunsets like this even in the Golden State.
"I don't think this happens there...we have hills that get in the way," Malone said.
A WBBM Newsradio reporter told Alex, a Chicagoan who was also recording the picture perfect moment, that you don't often see so many photographers in Chicago and he disagreed saying, "you're not looking in the right places!"
And he agreed with someone who said that beauty is always where you find it.