The Old Post Office is a massive, limestone-clad Art Deco structure that spans two full city blocks and physically straddles the Eisenhower Expressway. Designed by the firm Graham, Anderson, Probst, and White, its footprint is so vast that…
Transformers Chicago Film Locations
Follow the destructive path of the Battle of Chicago from Transformers: Dark of the Moon. This tour visits the skyscrapers, bridges, and streets where Autobots and Decepticons clashed in the 2011 blockbuster.
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1. The Old Post Office
2. Willis Tower
The Willis Tower is defined by its dark, stepped silhouette of black aluminum and bronze-tinted glass, which rises in a series of setbacks to a height of one thousand four hundred fifty-one feet. Originally commissioned by Sears, Roebuck…
3. Cloud Gate
Cloud Gate is a massive, elliptical sculpture in Millennium Park that serves as a giant mirror for the Chicago skyline. Measuring thirty-three feet high, sixty-six feet long, and forty-two feet wide, its surface is composed of one hundred…
4. The Royal Sonesta Chicago Downtown
The Royal Sonesta Chicago Downtown, once known as Hotel Seventy-One, sits along East Wacker Drive near the Chicago River. During the filming of Transformers: Dark of the Moon in twenty-ten and twenty-eleven, the area around the hotel…
5. Jewelers Building
The Jewelers Building, rising forty stories at the corner of Wabash Avenue and Wacker Drive, is crowned by a distinctive dome that distinguishes it from the surrounding skyline. Completed in nineteen twenty-seven, the neoclassical tower…
6. The Wrigley Building
The Wrigley Building is defined by its gleaming, white terra-cotta facade, which glows against the Chicago skyline. This two-towered structure sits at the northern end of the Michigan Avenue Bridge, inaugurated in nineteen twenty-one as…
7. Trump International Hotel & Tower® Chicago
The Trump International Hotel and Tower rises ninety-eight stories above the north bank of the Chicago River, its shimmering stainless steel and glass facade marked by three distinct horizontal setbacks. Designed by the firm Skidmore,…
8. Marshall Suloway/ North LaSalle Dr Bridge
The Marshall Suloway Bridge is identifiable by its four ornate bridge-tender houses, which feature distinctive mansard roofs and the Chicago municipal Y-shaped device. This bascule bridge, spanning the main stem of the Chicago River,…