City Approves New Tallest Tower for Chicago’s South Loop
Today the Chicago Plan Commission approved the construction of a 76-story, 829-foot-tall residential skyscraper marking the southwest corner of Grant Park at 113 East Roosevelt Road. The very slender Rafael Viñoly-designed tower is one of a pair planned for the site. It was deliberately designed as bundled square tubes to pay homage to the Willis Tower a dozen or so blocks to the northwest. Inside the approved building will be 796...