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    The Century Tower Condominiums, formerly known as the Trustees System Service Building, is a historic building located at 182 West Lake Street in the...
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    The Trump International Hotel and Tower is a skyscraper condo-hotel in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The building, named for Donald Trump, was designed...
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  • Century Tower may refer to: Century Tower (Beaumont) in Beaumont, Texas, U.S. Century Tower (Chicago) in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Century Tower (Sydney)...
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    international design competition for the tower became a historic event in 20th-century architecture. Built for Chicago Tribune owner Robert R. McCormick, since...
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    The Century Plaza Towers are two 44-story, 571-foot (174 m) twin towers in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. They are the tallest...
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    the mid-19th century. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but Chicago's population continued...
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    The Willis Tower, originally and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110-story, 1,451-foot (442.3 m) skyscraper in the Loop community...
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    fourth-tallest building in Chicago, surpassed in height by Willis Tower, Trump International Hotel and Tower, and St Regis Chicago. The building is managed...
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    residential Towers of 12th century Bologna numbered between 80 and 100 at a time, the tallest of which is the 97.2 m (319 ft) high Asinelli Tower. A Florentine...
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    2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Sharon Stangenes (April 2, 2005), Understated tower makes for fine homes, Chicago Tribune, retrieved 2011-12-29 v t e...
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  • design, an 18-story octagonal tower atop a more conventional 24-story rectangular "box." Briefly the tallest building in Chicago at the time of its completion...
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    destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 (an exception being the Water Tower). Chicago's architectural styles include the Chicago School primarily in...
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    The Metropolitan Tower is a skyscraper located at 310 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago's Historic Michigan Boulevard District in the Loop community area in...
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    Water Tower Place is a large urban, mixed-use development comprising a 758,000 sq ft (70,400 m2) shopping mall in a 74-story skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois...
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  • Eiffel Tower was the world's tallest structure from 1889, when it was built, but not the tallest building. The skyscraper was invented in Chicago in 1884...
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    Water Tower near Collinsville, Illinois Chicago Water Tower in Chicago, Illinois Florence Y'all Water Tower in Florence, Kentucky Lawson Tower in Scituate...
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    Central Park Tower, 432 Park Avenue, 111 West 57th Street, and Chicago's Willis Tower, which was formerly and is still commonly known as Sears Tower. Tribune...
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    its name to Chicago's downtown, which is also known as the Loop. Transit began to appear in Chicago in the latter half of the 19th century as the city...
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    Old Chicago Water Tower District is a historic district along the Magnificent Mile shopping district in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois...
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    Adrian Smith (architect) (category Architects from Chicago)
    International Hotel & Tower in Chicago, the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, and Zifeng Tower in Nanjing. Adrian Smith was born in Chicago in 1944. When he was four...
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    of early 20th century luxury apartments, sits on the northern edge of the district opposite Lake Michigan. The Old Chicago Water Tower District is located...
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    and CME Group's Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Aon Corporation maintains an office in the Aon Center. Chase Tower houses the headquarters...
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    Trump Tower Manila, also known as Trump Tower at Century City, is a residential building located in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. The building is...
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    many other Chicago streets, it exists in several disjointed segments. As the home of the Chicago Water Tower, the Art Institute of Chicago, Millennium...
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  • been termed historically "moonlight towers," a term that dates to the mid-20th century. The light from the towers was compared to moonlight, after they...
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    floor space. It is located two blocks east of the Chicago River and northeast of the Willis Tower with a main address of 227 West Monroe Street and an...
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    near the tower. A large market, the Sukharevka, bustled around the tower in the 19th century. In 1921 the Soviet government turned the tower into the...
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    Leaning Tower of Niles, Study Says", Chicago Tribune. Retrieved May 16, 2014. Gaines, Lee V. (November 20, 2016). "Village Intends to Buy Leaning Tower of...
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  • but the S. C. Johnson & Son Inc. Administration Building and Research Tower in Racine, Wisconsin, was eventually removed. A 2015 bid for inscription...
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    tenants. Williams Tower was named "Skyscraper of the Century" in the December 1999 issue of Texas Monthly magazine. Paul Gapp of the Chicago Tribune said that...
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