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Wrigley Building clearly a landmark
Tribune architecture criticWe live in Daleyland. Or Wonderland. Sometimes, it seems as if it's the same place. Mayor Richard M. Daley's recent assertion that the city will not seek landmark status for the iconic Wrigley Building takes us straight through the looking glass and into...Tags: Northwestern University, Family, Grant Park, Daniel Burnham, Chicago Board of Trade
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Beloved building vulnerable because it is not a landmark
Tribune architecture critic"London has Big Ben, Paris has the Eiffel Tower, and Chicago has the Wrigley Building," the architectural historian Sally Chappell once wrote. That is an overstatement, perhaps--Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center are the city's real skyscraper...Tags: Illinois, Arts and Culture, John Hancock, Frank Sinatra, Willis Tower
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Will Wrigley Building turn high-end condo?
Tribune staff reporterChicago business icon Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., whose renowned namesake building is an architectural gem, is studying its long-term real estate needs, including a move from its historic headquarters building, the Chicago Tribune has learned. If the company...Tags: Playboy Enterprises, Inc., Michael Lerner, Travel, Transportation, 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: Roosevelt, John Hancock, Art Institute of Chicago, Ohio, Property
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Chicago, city of the uplifted gaze
Special to The TimesBy 8:50 a.m., they temporarily had to close the women's restroom at the Chicago ArchiCenter. "There were so many people here already, they had to restock all the toilet paper," said Elaine Rosen, a retired biology teacher from the Streeterville area of...Tags: Palmer House Hilton, Metal and Mineral, Lifestyle and Leisure, Kenwood, Grant Park
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A visitor's guide to a place we call home
Tribune staff writerWeek after week, in the pages of Travel, we tell readers about every place in the world they can visit -- except Chicago. We're not tourists in our own town, editors think, so Chicago isn't a travel experience; it's home. But not for every Tribune...Tags: Palmer House Hilton, Lincoln Park Zoo, ER (tv program), Chicago Board of Trade, Los Angeles
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Update: U.S. under attack [archives]
As traffic on the World Wide Web came to a crawl the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, chicagotribune.com communicated with many of its readers via e-mail. This is the third of four Tribune Alerts that were sent that day to more than 19,800 readers -- and that...Tags: Illinois, Industrial Accidents, John Hancock, American Airlines, Inc., Art Institute of Chicago
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Rooted in bedrock, reaching for the sky
Tribune staff reporterThe tower will soar above the skyline, but right now there is only an open space by the Chicago River, a home to construction equipment and a matter of fascination to neighbors. Construction of the Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago will offer a...Tags: Weather Reports, John Hancock, Chicago Sun-Times, IBM, Metal and Mineral
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Chicago shuts down in wake of attacks
Tribune staff reporterHouses of worship holding prayer vigils for the nation were among the few buildings in Chicago actively welcoming people this afternoon, as shock waves from the devastating terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in...Tags: Illinois, John Hancock, Chicago Park District, Art Institute of Chicago, Lincoln Park Zoo
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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: Arts and Culture, Richard M. Daley, Chicago Sun-Times, Donald Trump, Willis Tower
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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: Chicago Sun-Times, IBM, Metal and Mineral, Travel, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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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: John Hancock, Television, Chicago Sun-Times, IBM, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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