The 44th-floor sky lobby features America's highest indoor swimming pool. ==History== The project, which would become the world's second tallest building at opening, was conceived and owned by Jerry Wolman in late 1964.
Construction of the tower was interrupted in 1967 due to a flaw in an innovative engineering method used to pour concrete in stages, that was discovered when the building was 20 stories high.
When the building topped out on May 6, 1968, it was the second-tallest building in the world, the tallest in Chicago, and the tallest outside New York City.
Heckla moved his family in April 1969, before the building was completed. On November 11, 1981, Veterans Day, high-rise firefighting and rescue advocate Dan Goodwin, for the purpose of calling attention to the inability to rescue people trapped in the upper floors of skyscrapers, successfully climbed the building's exterior wall.
Heckla moved his family in April 1969, before the building was completed. On November 11, 1981, Veterans Day, high-rise firefighting and rescue advocate Dan Goodwin, for the purpose of calling attention to the inability to rescue people trapped in the upper floors of skyscrapers, successfully climbed the building's exterior wall.
Fearing for Goodwin's life, Mayor Jane Byrne intervened and allowed him to continue to the top. The John Hancock Center is featured in the 1988 film Poltergeist III. On December 18, 1997, comedian Chris Farley was found dead in his apartment on the 60th floor of the building. On March 9, 2002, part of a scaffold fell 43 stories after being torn loose by wind gusts around crushing several cars, killing three people in two of them.
It was pioneered by Bangladeshi-American structural civil engineer Fazlur Khan and chief architect Bruce Graham. The interior was remodeled in 1995, adding to the lobby travertine, black granite, and textured limestone surfaces.
Fearing for Goodwin's life, Mayor Jane Byrne intervened and allowed him to continue to the top. The John Hancock Center is featured in the 1988 film Poltergeist III. On December 18, 1997, comedian Chris Farley was found dead in his apartment on the 60th floor of the building. On March 9, 2002, part of a scaffold fell 43 stories after being torn loose by wind gusts around crushing several cars, killing three people in two of them.
Shorenstein Properties had bought the building in 1998 for $220 million. Golub defaulted on its debt and the building was acquired in 2012 by Deutsche Bank who subsequently carved up the building.
It has won various awards for its distinctive style, including the Distinguished Architects Twenty-five Year Award from the American Institute of Architects in May 1999.
Fearing for Goodwin's life, Mayor Jane Byrne intervened and allowed him to continue to the top. The John Hancock Center is featured in the 1988 film Poltergeist III. On December 18, 1997, comedian Chris Farley was found dead in his apartment on the 60th floor of the building. On March 9, 2002, part of a scaffold fell 43 stories after being torn loose by wind gusts around crushing several cars, killing three people in two of them.
The remaining part of the stage swung back-and-forth in the gusts repeatedly slamming against the building, damaging cladding panels, breaking windows, and sending pieces onto the street below. On December 10, 2006, the non-residential portion of the building was sold by San Francisco based Shorenstein Properties for $385 million and was purchased by a joint venture of Chicago-based Golub & Company and the Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds.
The record time as of 2007 is 9 minutes 30 seconds. The building is home to the transmitter of Univision's WGBO-DT (channel 66), while all other full-power television stations in Chicago broadcast from Willis Tower.
Shorenstein Properties had bought the building in 1998 for $220 million. Golub defaulted on its debt and the building was acquired in 2012 by Deutsche Bank who subsequently carved up the building.
The venture of Deutsche Bank and New York-based NorthStar Realty Finance paid an estimated $325 million for debt on 875 North Michigan Avenue in 2012 after Shorenstein Properties defaulted on $400 million in loans.
The observation deck was sold to Paris-based Montparnasse 56 Group for between $35 million and $45 million in July 2012.
In November 2012, Boston-based American Tower Corp affiliate paid $70 million for the antennas.
In June 2013, a venture of Chicago-based real estate investment firm Hearn Co., New York-based investment firm Mount Kellett Capital Management L.P.
The Chicago Fire Department was able to extinguish the fire after an hour and a half; five people suffered minor injuries. On February 11, 2018, a fire in a car on the seventh floor required approximately 150 firefighters to extinguish. On February 12, 2018, John Hancock Insurance requested that its name and logos throughout the building's interior be removed immediately; John Hancock had not had a naming-rights deal with the skyscraper's owners since 2013.
The observatory, previously called the John Hancock Observatory, has been independently owned and operated since 2014 by the Montparnasse 56 Group out of Paris, France.
In the summer of 2014, 360 Chicago added its TILT attraction.
The City Colleges of Chicago's WYCC (channel 20) transmitted from the building until November 2017, when it departed the air as part of the 2016 FCC spectrum auction, and will eventually return as a part of WTTW's spectrum from Willis Tower. On November 21, 2015, a fire broke out in an apartment on the 50th floor of the building.
In May 2016, Hearn Co.
The City Colleges of Chicago's WYCC (channel 20) transmitted from the building until November 2017, when it departed the air as part of the 2016 FCC spectrum auction, and will eventually return as a part of WTTW's spectrum from Willis Tower. On November 21, 2015, a fire broke out in an apartment on the 50th floor of the building.
The City Colleges of Chicago's WYCC (channel 20) transmitted from the building until November 2017, when it departed the air as part of the 2016 FCC spectrum auction, and will eventually return as a part of WTTW's spectrum from Willis Tower. On November 21, 2015, a fire broke out in an apartment on the 50th floor of the building.
Located in the Magnificent Mile district, its name was changed to 875 North Michigan Avenue on February 12, 2018.
In 2018, John Hancock Insurance requested that its name be removed and the owner is seeking another naming rights deal. From the 95th floor restaurant, diners can look out at Chicago and Lake Michigan.
The Chicago Fire Department was able to extinguish the fire after an hour and a half; five people suffered minor injuries. On February 11, 2018, a fire in a car on the seventh floor required approximately 150 firefighters to extinguish. On February 12, 2018, John Hancock Insurance requested that its name and logos throughout the building's interior be removed immediately; John Hancock had not had a naming-rights deal with the skyscraper's owners since 2013.
The building's name was subsequently changed to its street address as 875 North Michigan Avenue. On November 16, 2018, an express elevator cable broke.
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