Chase Tower

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Chase Tower
Information
Location	Chicago, Illinois USA[1]
Status	Complete
Constructed	1964-1969[2]
Technical details
Floor count	60 total[4]
Floor area	2.2 million ft²[3]
Companies
Architect	C.F. Murphy Associates, Perkins and Will[5]

Chase Tower, located in the Chicago Loop area of Chicago at 10 South Dearborn Street, is a 60 story skyscraper completed in 1969. At 850 feet (259 m) tall, it is the tenth tallest building in Chicago, the tallest building inside the Chicago 'L' Loop elevated tracks, and the 32nd tallest in the United States. Design architects for the construction were C.F. Murphy Associates and Perkins and Will.^{[citation needed]} The building has the headquarters of Exelon.^[6]

The building and its plaza (known as Exelon Plaza) occupy the entire block bounded by Clark, Dearborn, Madison, and Monroe Streets.

Chase Tower is known for both its distinctive curving shape and its vibrant public space: a deep sunken plaza at the geographic center of the Chicago Loop, complete with a jet fountain and Marc Chagall's ceramic wall mural Four Seasons.^{[citation needed]}

The building's name was changed from Bank One Tower on October 24, 2005, as a result of a corporate merger. Earlier the plaza was named First National Plaza. When constructed it was home to the First National Bank of Chicago.^{[citation needed]}

Since May 2005 the National Public Radio show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is taped on Thursday nights before a live audience at the Chase Auditorium in the building.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of tallest buildings in the United States
• List of tallest buildings in Chicago
• World's tallest structures
• List of Skyscrapers

Position in Chicago's skyline

References

1. ^ "Chase Tower - Chicago Architecture". Chicagoarchitecture.info. http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Building/1038/Chase_Tower.php. Retrieved 2007-07-08. 
2. ^ "Chase Tower - Chicago Architecture". Chicagoarchitecture.info. http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Building/1038/Chase_Tower.php. Retrieved 2007-07-08. 
3. ^ "Chase Tower". Skyscraper.org. http://www.skyscraper.org/EXHIBITIONS/BIG_BUILDINGS/CONTENT/jumbos/j_04.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-08. 
4. ^ Chase Tower - Chicago Architecture
5. ^ "Chase Tower, Chicago". A View on Cities. http://www.aviewoncities.com/building/chasetower.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-08. 
6. ^ "Contact Us." Exelon. Retrieved on December 5, 2009.

External links

Chicago portal

• projectchicago.org entry: Chase Tower
• Emporis listing
• Chase press release when they changed the name in 2005
• skyscraper.org

• Chase Tower (Chicago) is at coordinates 41°52′54″N 87°37′48″W / 41.881568°N 87.630064°W / 41.881568; -87.630064 (Chase Tower (Chicago))Coordinates: 41°52′54″N 87°37′48″W / 41.881568°N 87.630064°W / 41.881568; -87.630064 (Chase Tower (Chicago))

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