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This time of year, we often overlook the buildings that envelop us in the Loop as we trudge to work, shoulders bent against cruel winds and bitter cold. But we walk among giants, and that includes ...
Many famous buildings in Chicago are renowned for its architecture, creativity, and innovation. Learn more about what makes them so notable!
Abandoned since an explosion in 1977, the new owner of the silos has been planning to tear them down — and will begin doing so on Monday of next week.
If — and it’s a big if — this news comes to pass, 311 S. Wacker Drive, only 35 years old, would be the world’s tallest building demolished voluntarily, Ori reported.
Tearing down the 961-foot-tall building would be the biggest voluntary demolition in the world, making runners up of New York’s former 707-foot-tall JPMorgan Chase building and Singapore’s 770 ...
According to the Chicago Fire Department, a vehicle caught fire in a sixth-floor parking garage in the structure, causing smoke to billow out of the building and drawing a large emergency response.
Millennium Lakeside Garage—the largest underground parking facility in the U.S., equal in size to 12 football fields—hadn’t been waterproofed since the 1970s. Waterproofing it in support of the ...