The James R. Thompson Center is marked by a massive, curved, glass-walled facade that rises seventeen stories above the sidewalk. Opened in nineteen eighty-five, the structure occupies an entire city block in the Loop. Architect Helmut Jahn designed the building with a soaring, circular atrium to serve as a modern state office building, intending the open space and transparency of the glass to reflect the ideals of state government.
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