When Will Chicago Get Its Next Supertall Skyscraper?

Curious City

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2015

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A Chinese developer wants to alter the city skyline and break a dry spell in a field we once dominated.

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0:00.0	When were the...
0:03.0	What school's...
0:06.0	Who decides what the next...
0:08.0	Where's that story?
0:09.0	Why they keep the look?
0:11.0	What is this?
0:13.0	It's a curious city.
0:15.0	Where WBEZ answers your questions...
0:17.0	About Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:20.0	Hi, I'm reporter Chris Bentley, and I'm going to answer, or re-answer, a high-minded question
0:26.1	curious city got a while back in 2013. It has to do with super-tall skyscrapers. Those are
0:32.1	buildings taller than 984 feet. Chicago's often credited with inventing the skyscraper, or at least pioneering the
0:38.8	forum along with New York City. Chicago's reached great heights when it comes to super talls specifically.
0:43.8	We've got six of them, including the Willis or Sears Tower, which was the world's tallest building
0:48.2	for 25 years. But we've only built one new super tall in the last 25 years, the Trump Tower,
0:55.3	completed in 2009.
1:01.2	That dry spell bothered Andrew Wambach. Andrew had just moved to Minnesota and already missed the Chicago skyline. My question is, when will Chicago have its next super tall skyscraper?
1:06.1	Our answer was, not any time soon. News, he took pretty well, actually. Maybe the super tall is done, and for Chicago, they don't need it anymore. They can say,
1:15.1	been there, done that. We can be a great city. We can be a world city without the need of
1:19.5	the super tall structured by the resilience of our neighborhoods, you know, the strength of our
1:23.8	restaurants and from our culture. But we're going to take another look. Why? There's some big news.
1:28.8	In 2014, a Chinese developer called Dalyan Wanda Group
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