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The tallest building in the city is the 110-story Willis Tower (also known as the Sears Tower), which rises 1,451 feet (442 m) in the Chicago Loop and was completed in 1974. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Sears Tower was the tallest building in the world upon its completion, and remained the tallest building in the United States until May 10, 2013. [ 4 ]
A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more (often four) clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a turret clock which often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large bells or chimes ...
Tower building: Clock tower: Italy: Palazzolo sull'Oglio [49] 34: Springfield Campanille: 91.44 m (300.0 ft) 4: Yes: 1913: Freestanding Tower: Bell Tower (original) Clock & Bell Tower (current) USA: Springfield, Massachusetts: Currently not open to the public. With the addition of the clock now the third tallest freestanding clock tower in the ...
35 East Wacker, also known as the Jewelers' Building, [5] is a 40-story 523 ft (159 m) historic building in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States, located at the intersection of Wabash Avenue and East Wacker Drive, facing the Chicago River.
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]
900 North Michigan in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois, is a skyscraper completed in 1989. At 871 feet (265 m) tall, it is the eleventh tallest building in Chicago as of 2023 and the 59th-tallest in the United States.
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Mather Tower in 2016. Mather Tower (later Lincoln Tower, as designated on the Michigan–Wacker Historic District roster; now identified primarily by its address) is a Neo-Gothic, terra cotta-clad high-rise structure in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is located at 75 East Wacker Drive in the downtown "loop" area, adjacent to the Chicago ...