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One Prudential Plaza (formerly known as the Prudential Building) is a 41-story structure in Chicago completed in 1955 as the headquarters for Prudential's Mid-America company. It was the first skyscraper built in Chicago since the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Second World War.
Two Prudential Plaza is a 64-story skyscraper located in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois.At 995 feet (303 m) tall, it is the seventh-tallest building in Chicago as of 2022 and the 28th-tallest in the U.S., being only five feet from 1,000 feet, making it the closest of any building under 1,000. [1]
Was the tallest building in Chicago before being surpassed by the Richard J. Daley Center. [121] [122] 55= One Prudential Plaza: 601 (183) 41 1955 Tallest building constructed in Chicago in the 1950s. [123] [124] 55= CNA Center: 601 (183) 44 1972
At the completion of construction the building was the tallest formwork structure in the world, [17] and follows in the footsteps of its neighbor, Marina City, as well as Chicago's Two Prudential Plaza, as past recordholders. [101]
Chicago's fourth tallest building, the Aon Center, is located just south of Illinois Center. The complex is at the east end of the Loop, east of Michigan Avenue. Two Prudential Plaza is also located here, just to the west of the Aon Center.
With a height of 816.83 feet (248.97 m) and containing 57 stories, [6] [1] it is the tallest all-commercial building in Chicago since Two Prudential Plaza in 1990. [2] Bank of America has committed to leasing 500,000 square feet (46,000 m 2) of office space in the building. [2] Perkins Coie has also signed a lease to the building. [7]
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It is considered the last major office building erected in Chicago prior to the Great Depression/World War II construction hiatus which ended with the building of One Prudential Plaza in 1955. [2] Many of the latest innovations such as high-speed elevators and air conditioning were incorporated into the building's design.