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HIGH ANXIETY
Tribune architecture criticChicago has long been a city of cloud busting skyscrapers, but its latest push toward the sky is enough to make jaws drop, eyes pop and start alarm bells ringing. Every week, it seems, a rendering of a new tower is splashed across the front page or the...Tags: San Francisco, Aon PLC, Willis Tower, John Hancock, Michigan Avenue
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How tall is too tall?
More than a century ago, the modern skyscraper was born in Chicago. It was nine stories tall. Then human nature--and advancing technology--unleashed a century of competition, much of it between New York and Chicago, to build the world's tallest building....Tags: Arts and Culture, New York, Willis Tower, John Hancock, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Tallest tower to twist rivals
Tribune staff reportersIt would twist into the sky over Chicago's lakefront like an oversized birthday candle, surpassing Sears Tower and the planned Freedom Tower in New York as the nation's tallest building. It might, or might not, be built. But it already is drawing fire...Tags: Aon PLC, Willis Tower, John Hancock, Building Material, Chicago Tribune
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Condos feel at home on Michigan Avenue
Tribune staff reportersIs Michigan Avenue, the fabled street of world-class shopping, trendy restaurants and office buildings instead becoming Chicago's version of New York's Park Avenue? One look at the number of vintage office buildings being converted into condominiums...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Property, John Hancock, Roosevelt, House Building
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Experts' goal: To make buildings terror-proof
Chicago Tribune architecture criticA week before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, structural engineers met at a conference in Frankfurt, Germany, and wondered aloud about how to build taller skyscrapers. Today, they will join architects and other building...Tags: Willis Tower, Aon PLC, John Hancock, Building Material, Transportation Accidents
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'Apprentice's' Rancic is fired up!
Chicago Tribune columnistIn Thursday's much-anticipated finale of "The Apprentice," a television contest many saw as a compelling take on corporate life and others viewed as an infomercial for Donald Trump, the Chicago cigar man bested the New York investment manager. Bill...Tags: NBC (tv network), Chicago Tribune, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Verizon Communications, Celebrities
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Chicago loves its Bill
RedEyeFor the 250 people packed into the second floor of Mike Ditka's Restaurant, Thursday's finale of "The Apprentice" was all about The Rancic. All evening, the crowd screamed every time Bill's name was mentioned, every time he appeared on screen and each...Tags: Golf, Clubs and Associations, Chicago Jobs, NBC (tv network), Family
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Will Trump's tower happen?
It seems odd that the most widely anticipated architectural event in Chicago this fall is not a new building, but a demolition. Yet such is the celebrity of Donald "You're Fired" Trump these days that the pending destruction of the barge like, seven-story...Tags: Willis Tower, Manhattan (New York City), Arts, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Park District
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Trump wants to school you
Tribune national correspondentSay this much for Donald Trump: When he launches a new enterprise, he's never stuck for a name. At Trump Tower, the nerve center of his business empire, there's the Trump Bar, Trump Tower Grill, Trump's Ice Cream Parlor, and the Trump Store, which...Tags: NBC (tv network), Northwestern University, Finance, Companies and Corporations, Columbia University
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Trump's spire plan up in air for a while
Tribune staff reporterDonald Trump, in Chicago to talk with financial backers of his proposed hotel and condominium tower, said Thursday it could be as long as two months before final plans are agreed on for the spire that will determine the look and height of the top the...Tags: Willis Tower, Aon PLC, John Hancock, Chicago Sun-Times, Empire State Building
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Getting to the point: A tower's aspirations
Call it "tinkering with the top." These computer renderings show the long gestation period of Donald Trump's 92-story hotel-condominium tower in Chicago -- in particular, the development of its controversial spire. The seven-year sequence includes the...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Donald Trump, Gaming, Richard M. Daley, Entertainment
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