The Aon Center is a massive, white granite-clad tower rising eighty-three stories above the eastern edge of the Loop. Its distinct, slender rectangular form serves as a prominent landmark just across from Millennium Park, and its base…
Underground Chicago Pedway Walk
This subterranean walk guides you through Chicago's hidden basement corridors and transit tunnels, letting you navigate the Loop completely protected from the elements.
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1. Aon Center
2. Prudential Plaza
Prudential Plaza is a complex of two towers at one hundred thirty East Randolph Street, instantly recognizable by the limestone vertical strips and ridged aluminum of the forty-one-story original structure, completed in nineteen…
3. Millennium Station
Millennium Station sits deep underground, tucked beneath the expanse of Millennium Park. Its most prominent visual characteristic is the cavernous, subterranean layout that once earned it a reputation as a dark and dingy space, later…
4. Chicago Cultural Center
The Chicago Cultural Center is distinguished by two massive, intricate stained-glass domes that crown the building, including a thirty-eight-foot Tiffany glass dome on the south side composed of thirty thousand pieces of glass. Completed…
5. Marshall Field and Company Building
The Marshall Field and Company Building occupies an entire city block in the Loop, recognizable by the massive seven-and-a-half-ton clocks that anchor its corners at State and Washington and State and Randolph. Designed in stages by Daniel…
6. Block 37
Block Thirty Seven occupies the full city block bounded by Randolph, State, Washington, and Dearborn Streets. You can identify it by its five-level glass and steel facade, which houses a modern retail and entertainment center.
7. Richard J. Daley Center
The Richard J. Daley Center is defined by its reddish-brown exterior, clad in Cor-Ten steel that was intentionally left to develop a natural rust patina. Completed in nineteen sixty-five as the Chicago Civic Center, the thirty-one-story…
8. City of Chicago - City Hall
Chicago City Hall is defined by its massive, colossal Corinthian columns that reach from the fourth to the ninth floor, giving the granite and terra cotta facade a distinctively heavy, monumental presence. This Neoclassical building…