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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
The elegant old masonry towers should be taller (and more frequent)
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that is a very legit wish i have for chicago.
this town built a lot of pre-war skyscrapers, but unfortunately it never erected any that came anywhere close to the monsters in NYC (though there were several proposals for them back in the day.
chicago has 30 pre-war towers over 100 M tall (far and away the largest collection of such towers in the world, outside of NYC), but the tallest one (CBoT building) is only 184 M tall, which means it doesn't even break into chicago's top 50 tallest buildings today (it's currently #52 including U/C towers), so none of chicago's pre-war towers have a great deal of overall skyline presence anymore (though, thanks to grant park and the chicago river canyon, many of them still have pretty good visibility within the city).
it would've been really cool if chicago had managed to build at least one ESB or even chrysler-level pre-war tower that would still have some real skyline presence here in the 21st century. we had proposals for them, but they were all sadly killed by the great depression.