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Ten Tallest Buildings in Chicago

 

Ten Tallest Buildings in Chicago 2024

 
 

1

Willis Tower (originally Sears Tower)

442.1 m/1451 ft. Floors: 108/3

Architect: SOM / Bruce Graham
Structural Engineer: SOM / Falzur Khan

Completed 1974

 

2

Trump International Hotel & Tower

432.2 m/1389 ft. Floors 98/2

Architect: SOM / Adrian Smith
Structural Engineer: SOM / William Baker

Completed 2009

 

Image Credit: Linda Zabors, January 2022

3

The St. Regis Chicago (Originally: Vista; Wanda Vista)

362.9 m/1191 ft. Floors: 92/5

Architect: Studio Gang / Jeanne Gang

Completed 2020

 

4

Aon Center (Originally: Standard Oil of Indiana; Previously: Amoco, BP/Amoco, BP

346.3 m/1136 ft. Floors: 83/5

Architect: Perkins + Will / Edward Durell Stone

Completed 1973. Recladding 1992

 

5

875 N. Michigan Avenue (Originally: John Hancock Building)

343.7 m/1128 ft. Floors: 100

Architect: SOM / Bruce Graham
Structural Engineer: SOM / Falzur Khan

Completed 1969

 

6

The Franklin - North Tower (Originally: AT&T Building)

306.9 m/1007 ft. Floors: 60/2

Architect: SOM

Completed 1989

 

7

Two Prudential Plaza

303.3 m/995 ft. Floors: 64/5

Architect: Environmental Systems Design, Inc.

Completed 1990

 

8

One Chicago Square - East Tower

295.8 m/971 ft. Floors: 76

Architect: Goettsch Partners, Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture

Completed 2022

 

9

311 South Wacker Drive

292.9 m/961 ft. Floors: 65/3

Architect: HKS Architects Design: Kohn Pederson Fox Associates

Completed 1990

 

10

NEMA Chicago

273.1 m/896 ft. Floors 81

Architect: Rafael Viñoly Architects
Structural Engineer: Magnusson Klemencic Associates

Completed 2019

 

Coming Soon

2023: Lakeshore East, 290 m

2025: Tribune East, 433 m


No longer in the top ten

1989: 900 N. Michigan Avenue (Bloomingdales Building) 265m/869ft. 66 floors

1975: Watertower Place, 261.9m/859ft 74 floors

2010: Aqua Radisson Hotel, 261.8m/859ft. 82 floors


Historic tallest buildings in Chicago

1974 Sears Tower (Willis) 1,451ft

1973 Standard Oil of Indiana (Aon Center) 1,136ft

1969 John Hancock Center (875 N. Michigan Avenue) 1,128ft

1965 Richard J. Daley Center. 648ft

1930 Board of Trade Building. 605ft

1924 Chicago Temple. 556ft (churches excluded from skyscraper ranking)

1922 Wrigley Building. 438ft

1899 Montgomery Ward (Tower Building 6. N. Michigan) 394ft (before removal of pyramid and statue)

1885 Board of Trade (original building demolished 1929) 320ft including clock tower (later removed)

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Other tall claims

1955 One Prudential Plaza. (tallest roof, not tallest overall) 601ft

1927 Pittsfield Building. 557ft

1927 The Jewelers Building (35 E. Wacker) 523ft

1925 Tribune Tower. 463ft

1889 Auditorium Theater Building. 238ft

1869 St. Michaels Church. 290ft (churches excluded from skyscraper ranking)

1854 Holy Name Cathedral. 254ft (churches excluded from skyscraper ranking)

1893 Monadnock Building. 197ft

1885 Home Insurance Building. 138ft, (1891 two floors added) 180ft. (demolished 1931) First steel frame construction skyscraper

Source: ArchDaily.com. and Chicagology.com. Heights: CTBUH


Source: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) - Skyscraper Center