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Above: late afternoon shot from Navy Pier Park towards downtown Chicago,
with Sears Tower (in the background) and Aon Center rising above it all.
Above: view from Grant Park with some of the older skyscrapers of the city in front
and two of the tallest skyscrapers in the background rising above them:
Sears Tower (442m/1,450f) and Chase Tower (259m/850f).


Above left: Leo Burnett Building (194m/635f, 46 stories, 1989).
Above middle and right: The Heritage at Millennium Park (192m/631f, 57 stories, 2005).
The tallest residential building in the Loop area of Chicago.


Above: NBC Tower (191m/627f, 37 stories, 1989).
The height is including the architectural spire on top;
without it the tower is 151m/495f tall.


Above left: two pictures of Millennium Centre (186m/610f, 58 stories, 2003).
Above middle and right: three pictures of Heller International Building (183m/600f, 45 stories, 1992).


Above left and middle: the Marina City Towers I & II (both: 179m/588f, 61 stories, 1964).
Tower #II is the one closest to the river.
Above right: Citicorp Center (179m/588f, 42 stories, 1987), the tallest all-glass building of Chicago.
The first two floors of the building house a railroad station.


Above left and middle left: Harbor Point (168m/550f, 54 stories, 1974),
a building similar in design to Lake Point Tower.
with on the second picture on the left next to it North Pier Apartments (177m/582f, 61 stories, 1990).
Above middle: Smurfit-Stone Building (177m/582f, 41 stories, 1983).
Above middle right and right: The Fordham (175m/574f, 52 stories, 2003).


Above left and middle left: Boeing World Headquarters (171m/560f, 36 stories, 1990).
Above middle: The Pinnacle (163m/535f, 48 stories, 2004).
Above middle right: River Plaza (160m/524f, 56 stories, 1977).
Above right: Mather Tower (159m/521f, 41 stories, 1928).


Above left: One Superior Place (153m/502f, 52 stories, 1999).
Above middle left and middle: 333 Wacker Drive, a 36-story building, completed in 1983 and 149m/487f tall.
Above middle right: Plaza 440 (146m/480f, 49 stories, 1991).
Above right: The Sterling (142m/466f, 50 stories, 2001).


Above left and middle: one of Chicago's oldest and perhaps most famous buildings:
the Tribune Tower (141m/463f, 34 stories, 1925).
Above right: the four Presidential Towers, four identical, forty-nine story apartment buildings.
They contain a total of 2,346 apartments and are connected by an atrium and arcade bridges.
They are 141m/461f tall and were completed in 1985.


Above left: Equitable Building (139m/457f, 35 stories, 1965).
Above middle: 400 North LaSalle (138m/454f, 45 stories, 2003).
Above right: Fairmont Hotel (130m/426f, 37 stories, 1987).


Above: window cleaners at work at a height of about 100 metres;
cleaning the windows of Wells Street Tower (118m/388f, 66 stories, 1989).


Above: Chicago seen from an airplane that is descending and ready to land
at Chicago O'Hare International Airport. The pictures unfortunately haven't the
best of quality, but they are fair enough to give you an impression of
Chicago seen from miles away and several hundred metres up in the air.


To see more pictures of more tall buildings of Chicago go to the following pages:

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Chicago's 10 tallest skyscrapers:
1. SEARS TOWER 442m/1,450f, 108 stories, 1974
2. AON CENTER 346m/1,136f, 83 stories, 1973
3. JOHN HANCOCK CENTER 344m/1,127f, 100 stories, 1969
4. AT&T CORPORATE CENTER 307m/1,007f, 60 stories, 1989
5. TWO PRUDENTIAL PLAZA 303m/995f, 64 stories, 1990
6. 311 SOUTH WACKER DRIVE 293m/961f, 65 stories, 1990
7. 900 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE 265m/871f, 66 stories, 1989
8. WATER TOWER PLACE 262m/859f, 74 stories, 1976
9. CHASE TOWER 259m/850f, 60 stories, 1969
10. PARK TOWER 257m/840f, 67 stories, 2000

The building data, the top 10 of tallest buildings and some of the building information are courtesy of
SKYSCRAPERS.COM, one of the world's leading architectural resources on tall buildings.

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