181 West Madison
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A view looking SouthEast
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from the 40th floor of 190 S. LaSalle The Chicago Board of Trade Commissioned in 1925 to architects Holabird & Root, the building was constructed by general contractors Hegeman & Harris for $12 millon. Clad in gray Indiana limestone, topped with a copper pyramid roof, and standing on a footprint running 174 feet east and west on Jackson Boulevard and 240 feet north and south on LaSalle Street, the 605-foot tall art-deco styled building opened on June 9 1930. It serves as the southern border for the skyscrapers hugging LaSalle Street and remains taller than surrounding structures for several blocks. The Chicago Board of Trade has operated continuously at its twelfth location since the opening, initially occupying 70,000 of an available 600,000 square feet of floorspace,[11] and dedicating 19,000 square feet to the world's largest trading floor.[12] The advent of steel frame structural systems provided the ability for completely vertical construction, but as with many skyscrapers of the era, the exterior was designed with multiple setbacks at increasing heights, which served to allow additional light into the ever increasing concrete valleys in urban cores. At night, the setbacks are upwardly lit by floodlights, further highlighting the structure's vertical elements. Interior decoration includes polished surfaces throughout, use of black and white marble, prominent vertical hallway trim, and an open three-story lobby which at the time of opening housed the world's largest light fixture. Though One LaSalle Street had five more floors, the CBOT building was the first in Chicago to exceed a height of 600 feet. After surpassing the Chicago Temple Building, it was the tallest in Chicago until the Richard J. Daley Center was completed in 1965. It remains the tallest art-deco building outside of Manhattan. Known for their work on the Brooklyn Bridge, the family-operated factory of John A. Roebling supplied much of the 20 miles of wire rope used in the building and all of the cables used in the building's 23 Otis elevators.[13]
190 South LaSalle
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190 S. LaSalle
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NOT my image- for reference purposes only
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A view looking SouthEast
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Nearest places of interest:
| AT&T Corporate Center 1 S. Wacker Drive The Loop 55 W. Monroe St. | Chicago City Hall Chase Tower UBS Tower Civic Opera House |
