A pos has been made on the Live Maps / Virtual Earth blog announcing a major imagery release, including Birds Eye imagery for Chicago, along with "dozens of other cities, including tons of European imagery". The Live Maps guys posted a Collection of landmarks to get us started. Here's the Goodman Theatre, where my brother works:
 

http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=yp.YN272x5435972

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