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71 South Wacker (previously known as the “Hyatt Center”) is an American office tower in Chicago completed in 2005. The 48-story skyscraper stands at 679 feet (207 m) on 71 South Wacker Drive. It is owned by the Irvine Company .
The building was designed in 1929 and completed in 1930; at the time of its completion, it was the tallest reinforced concrete building in the world. Its original tenant and namesake was the Trustees System Service, a bank that specialized in consumer loans.
333 South Wabash is a simple, rectangular International Style building, but it is unique in that the entire building was painted bright red by Eagle Painting & Maintenance Company, Inc., turning an otherwise ordinary-looking structure into one of the most eye-catching buildings in the city.
The Catalog House was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 17, 2000. [ 7 ] In later years, Montgomery Ward and Company added several warehouses and parking structures, followed by a 26-story office building in 1972, designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki , who also designed the former World Trade Center towers in New York City .
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]
The George W. Dunne Cook County Administration Building(formerly known as the Brunswick Building) is a skyscraper located at 69 West Washington Street in Chicago, Illinois. [1] [2] The building, constructed between the years 1962 and 1964, is 475 ft (144.8 m) tall, and contains 35 floors. [1] It has a concrete structure. [1]
The general offices of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway were located here on the 2nd and 3rd floors, [2] as were the headquarters of the World's Columbian Exposition, on the 4th and 5th. [3] The Long Distance Telephone Company (Quincy Street side) allowed patrons the ability to telephone New York City, a novelty at the time.
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.