Chase Tower (Chicago)

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Chase Tower
Information
Location Chicago, Illinois USA[1]
Status Complete
Constructed 1964-1969[2]
Floor count 60 total[3]
Floor area 2.2 million ft²[4]
Companies
Architect C.F. Murphy Associates, Perkins and Will[5]

Chase Tower, located in Chicago at 10 South Dearborn Street, is a 60 story skyscraper completed in 1969. At 850 feet (259 m) tall, it is the ninth tallest building in Chicago, the tallest building inside the Chicago 'L' Loop elevated tracks, and the 30th tallest in the United States. Design architects for the construction were C.F. Murphy Associates and Perkins and Will.

The building and its plaza (known as Exelon Plaza, after a prominent tenant of the building) occupy the entire block bounded by Clark, Dearborn, Madison, and Monroe Streets.

Chase Tower is known for both its distinctive curving shape and its vibrant public space: a deep sunken plaza at the geographic center of the Chicago Loop formed by the elevated train tracks, complete with a jet fountain and Marc Chagall's ceramic wall mural Four Seasons.

The building's name was changed from Bank One Tower on October 24, 2005, as a result of a corporate merger. Earlier the was named First National Plaza. When constructed it was home to the First National Bank of Chicago.

Since May 2005 the National Public Radio show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is taped on Thursday nights before a live audience at the Chase Auditorium in the building.

The 56th floor of the building contains a full-floor private club (The Mid-Day Club) that is available for event rental.

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[edit] Position in Chicago's skyline

311 South Wacker Sears Tower Chicago Board of Trade 111 South Wacker AT&T_Corporate_Center CNA Plaza Chase Tower Three First National Plaza Mid-Continental Plaza Daley Center Chicago Title and Trust 77 West wacker Drive Pittsfield Building Leo Burnett Building The Heritage Smurfit-Stone Building IBM Plaza Buckingham Fountain Lake Michigan Lake Michigan Lake Michigan Jay Pritzker Pavilion One Prudential Plaza Two Prudential Plaza Aon Center Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower 340 on the Park Park Tower Olympia Centre 900 North Michigan John Hancock Center Water Tower Place Harbor Point The Parkshore North Pier Apartments Lake Point Tower

[edit] References

  1. ^ Chase Tower - Chicago Architecture. Chicagoarchitecture.info. Retrieved on 2007-07-08.
  2. ^ Chase Tower - Chicago Architecture. Chicagoarchitecture.info. Retrieved on 2007-07-08.
  3. ^ Chase Tower - Chicago Architecture
  4. ^ Chase Tower. Skyscraper.org. Retrieved on 2007-07-08.
  5. ^ Chase Tower, Chicago. A View on Cities. Retrieved on 2007-07-08.

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