Chase Tower (Chicago)

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Chase Tower
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Chase Tower in May 2010
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Chase Tower (Chicago) (Illinois)
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Chase Tower (Chicago) (the United States)
General information
Location10 Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois, U.S. [1]
Coordinates 41°52′54″N87°37′48″W / 41.8816°N 87.6301°W / 41.8816; -87.6301
Construction started1964
Completed1969 [1]
Height
Roof850 ft (260 m) [1] [2]
Technical details
Floor count60 [3]
Floor area2,199,982 sq ft (204,385.0 m2) [4]
Design and construction
Architect(s) C.F. Murphy Associates, Perkins and Will [5]
References
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Chase Tower, located in the Chicago Loop area of Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois at 10 South Dearborn Street, is a 60-story skyscraper completed in 1969. At 850 feet (259 m) tall, it is the fourteenth-tallest building in Chicago and the tallest building inside the Chicago 'L' Loop elevated tracks, and, as of May 2022, the 66th-tallest in the United States. JPMorgan Chase has its U.S. and Canada commercial and retail banking headquarters here. [7] The building is also the headquarters of Exelon. [8] The building and its plaza (known as Exelon Plaza) occupy the entire block bounded by Clark, Dearborn, Madison, and Monroe streets.

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History

The First Chicago Bank clock in Chase Tower's Exelon Plaza First National Clock.jpg
The First Chicago Bank clock in Chase Tower's Exelon Plaza
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First Chicago Bank plaque below the clock in Exelon Plaza

Before the building was constructed, the Morrison Hotel, on its former site, was demolished in 1965. The building first opened in 1969 as First National Plaza. When constructed, it was the headquarters of First Chicago Corporation. [9] In 1998, it became the headquarters for Bank One Corporation, and accordingly it was renamed Bank One Tower, [10] The current name dates from October 24, 2005, one year after Bank One merged with Chase. Chase's retail bank division is based in the tower.

For a time the National Public Radio show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! was taped on Thursday nights before a live audience at the Chase Auditorium under the plaza. [11] In 2022 the show permanently moved to the Fine Arts Building. [12]

Design and features

Design architects for the construction were C.F. Murphy Associates, Stanislaw Z. Gladych and Perkins and Will. [3] 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 . [9]

The ground floor is home to the largest Chase Bank branch in Chicago with 22 ATMs.

See also

Position in Chicago's skyline

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Chase Tower - Chicago Architecture". Chicagoarchitecture.info. Archived from the original on 2019-07-24. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
  2. ↑ "Skyscraper.org". Skyscraper.org. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
  3. 1 2 "Chase Tower - Chicago Architecture". Archived from the original on 2019-07-24. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
  4. ↑ "Chase Tower". Skyscraper.org. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
  5. ↑ "Chase Tower, Chicago". A View on Cities. Archived from the original on 2019-06-29. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
  6. ↑ "Emporis building ID chasetower-chicago-il-usa". Emporis . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  7. ↑ JPMorgan History | The History of Our Firm
  8. ↑ "Contact Us Archived December 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine ." Exelon. Retrieved on December 5, 2009.
  9. 1 2 "Chase Tower". Skyscraper.org. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
  10. ↑ "Contact Information." Bank One Corporation. April 10, 2001. Retrieved on March 31, 2010.
  11. ↑ "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!." Retrieved on February 9, 2010.
  12. ↑ N; P; R (2022-05-13). "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! moves to Chicago's Studebaker Theater". NPR. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
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