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Aspire to greatness
Tribune architecture criticYou had to wonder when Donald Trump's Chicago skyscraper would descend into a circus. Last week, it showed signs of doing just that when city officials and Trump sources revealed that The Donald may stretch the spire atop his tower to potentially absurd...Tags: Willis Tower, Chicago Board of Trade, Donald Trump, Chicago Sun-Times, New York
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Playing the Trump card on spire
Tribune architecture criticDonald Trump knows a thing or two about gambling and its pitfalls. He runs a casino empire that went bankrupt. Now "The Donald" is asking Chicagoans to take a huge gamble on one of their most prized possessions: their skyline. But his lawyer and his...Tags: Willis Tower, The Apprentice (tv program), Donald Trump, Finance, NBC (tv network)
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Trump aspires to new heights
Tribune staff reportersFirst Donald Trump wanted to do away with a decorative spire atop his hotel and condominium tower on the Chicago River. Then Mayor Richard Daley asked him to put it back on the building's plans. Now The Donald, seemingly unable to resist associating...Tags: Willis Tower, Feet, Donald Trump, Finance, Chicago Sun-Times
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Daley to Trump: You're spired!
Tribune staff reportersDonald Trump knows what he likes, and he didn't like a spire on his Chicago building. "I hated the look of it," Trump said in October while discussing a recent design of the tower. Mayor Richard Daley knows what he likes too. His tastes run toward the...Tags: Willis Tower, Golf, Adrian Smith, Donald Trump, Chicago Sun-Times
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Redeemed
Whew! Flamboyant New York developer Donald Trump isn't going to foist one of his trademark exercises in architectural glitz on Chicago. He has even radically altered an earlier plan that would have erected a bloated blob of a high-rise alongside such...Tags: Willis Tower, Donald Trump, NBC (tv network), IBM, Chicago Skyline
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Trump: `We really hit it here'
Tribune architecture criticFlamboyant New York real estate developer Donald Trump talked with the Tribune last week about the dreams and disappointments associated with his planned 90-story hotel and condominium tower in Chicago. He also discussed how the project's design would...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Donald Trump, New York, Manhattan (New York City), Arts and Culture
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Trump dumps lofty goal for tower's spire
Donald Trump's spire isn't going higher. The flamboyant developer and reality TV star said Tuesday he no longer wants to construct the nation's tallest building in Chicago. Last month, Trump caved in to Mayor Richard Daley's demand that he keep a...Tags: Willis Tower, Donald Trump, Chicago Sun-Times, Aon PLC, New York City
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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: Roosevelt, Condos, Chicago Restaurants, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking
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City planners give their approval to Trump's riverfront tower plan
Tribune staff reporterThe riverfront skyscraper project Donald Trump wants to build in Chicago cleared a major hurdle Thursday when the Planning Commission approved the billionaire developer's proposal for the site that houses the Chicago Sun-Times. Executives of Trump's...Tags: Donald Trump, Finance, Chicago Sun-Times, New York, Rental Service
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One Trump reality worth all the hype
Tribune architecture criticDonald Trumps's 90-story hotel and condominium tower, which appears more real than ever after Thursday's ceremonial start of demolition on the Chicago Sun-Times Building, has more going for it than the hype associated with the reality TV show "The...Tags: Willis Tower, Finance, Chicago Skyline, NBC (tv network), Inland Steel Company
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