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Chicago Skyscrapers: Tall Buildings

Contemporary tower developments Illinois, USA. Modern United States of America property updates.

post updated February 1, 2026

Chicago Architecture Design – chronological list

e-architect’s Editors select key examples of Chicago Skyscraper Buildings. This online resource aims to include tower buildings / projects that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both.

Chicago Architecture News

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Major contemporary Chicago Skyscrapers News added on e-architect recently:

October 9, 2024
1000M Tower Building, Michigan Avenue
Architecture: Jahn

photo : Tom Rossiter

May 30, 2024
Salesforce Tower Chicago office building, Wolf Point, downtown Chicago
Architecture: von Weise Associates

photo : Jason O’Rear

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Chicago Skyscraper Buildings

We cover completed Chicago Skyscraper buildings, new building designs and architecture competitions across Illinois. The focus is on contemporary Chicago towers but information on older buildings is also welcome.

August 12, 2023
One Chicago Downtown Residences, River North area, Downtown Chicago
Architects: Goettsch Partners

photo © Ian Jolipa

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Apr 11, 2022
800 Fulton Market, Chicago Building
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

photo : Dave Burk
The mixed-use office tower leverages advanced capacity-monitoring technology and ample outdoor space to promote tenant safety, health and wellness. The 326-foot-tall mixed-use office tower includes pandemic-responsive design features, from seven landscaped terraces that allow for indoor/outdoor workspaces, to assistive smart building systems.

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Chicago Skyscrapers Design News

Oct 15, 2020
110 North Wacker
Architects: Goettsch Partners, Inc.

image courtesy of architects firm
The Howard Hughes Corporation® (NYSE: HHC) and Riverside Investment & Development announced today the opening of the trophy-class office tower at 110 North Wacker Drive. The announcement marks the culmination of the highly-anticipated 55-story downtown riverfront building, which is a collaboration with the award-winning leasing, design and construction team of CBRE, Goettsch Partners and Clark Construction.

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Dec 27, 2019
Union Station Tower
Design: Goettsch Partners (GP)

image courtesy of architects practice
Global architecture firm GP celebrated the groundbreaking today for Union Station Tower, also known as BMO Tower, a new 50-story office building in Chicago. The tower and new public space are part of the larger redevelopment of Chicago Union Station, along with additional adjacent real estate owned by Amtrak.

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Chicago Skyscrapers

Major Modern Chicago Tower Projects, alphabetical:

77 West Wacker Drive Building
Design: Ricardo Bofill – ‘Taller de Arquitectura

photo from Ricardo Bofill Architects

110 North Wacker Office Building
Design: Goettsch Partners

photo from architects

111 South Wacker
Date built: 2005
Design: Goettsch Partners
office tower: 53 storeys, 1.5 m sqft

150 North Riverside Building, West Loop
Design: Goettsch Partners

photo © Nick Ulivieri
Chicago-based developer Riverside Investment & Development celebrated the debut of the 150 North Riverside office tower, which opened for business in February, with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony today.

340 on the Park
Date built: 2007
Design: Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB)
62 storeys

860-880 Lake Shore Drive Chicago Apartments
Dates built: 1948-51
Design: Mies van der Rohe architect

photo : William Zbaren
Architects Krueck & Sexton restore twin rectilinear towers, one of legendary Modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s most celebrated commissions.

Aqua Tower
Dates built: 2008-11
Design: Studio Gang Architects

picture from architects

Catalog at Willis Tower Building Addition, Wacker Drive
Date originally built: 1973
Executive architect & interior designer: Gensler – Exterior facade design: SkB Architects

rendering courtesy EQ Office
New building base development at tallest tower in north America.

Fordham Spire – aka Chicago Spire: proposed skyscraper
Date design: 2006-10
Design: Santiago Calatrava Architects
Chicago Spire architect : Santiago Calatrava

Illinois Blue Cross HQ
Dates built: 2006-10
Design: Goettsch Partners
796 ft high
24 storeys added above existing 33 storey building, also by Goettsch Partners
$270m
For Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois

Inland Steel Building, 30 W. Monroe
Dates built: 1956-57/58
Design: Skidmore Owings Merrill Architects (SOM) – Walter Netsch
19 storeys, 101m high

John Hancock Center – ‘Big John’, 875 North Michigan Ave
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Skidmore, Owings and Merrill – SOM: Bruce Graham (architect) with Fazhur R. Khan (engineer)

photograph © Joe Lekas
100 storeys, famous Chicago landmark

Marina City – ‘Corncob towers’, 300 N. State St
Date built: 1967
Architect: Bertrand Goldberg

photo © Joe Lekas
Mixed-use development : residential, commercial, retail, theatre, marina, health club, swimming pool
60 storeys

Office Tower, Chicago
Date built: 1997
Goettsch Partners
446ft high building

Sears Tower, Wacker Drive
Date built: 1973
Design: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

photograph : Michiel van Dijk

Sears Tower Chicago Building Modernization
Date design: 2009-
Design: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

image © Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

Sixteen at Trump Hotel
Date built: 2008
Design: Ivanka Trump with Valerio Dewalt Train Associates

Trump International Hotel and Tower, downtown Chicago, Illinois
Date built: 2009
Architect: Adrian Smith, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

photo © Joe Lekas
415m high building with spire, 96 storeys tall