The Chicago Spire

Have you heard about the soon-to-be-built Chicago Spire?

Scheduled for completion in 2011 and designed to stand 2000 feet tall and include 150 floors, this new residential tower - currently under construction at 400 N. Lake Shore Drive - will soon be the tallest free-standing tower in North America and the tallest all-residential building in the world. The Chicago Spire will surpass Chicago's own Sears Tower, which stands 1450 feet tall, New York's upcoming Freedom Tower, planned to be 1776 feet tall, and Toronto's CN Tower, which stands 1815 feet tall.

Here is a link to the official Chicago Spire Web site: http://www.thechicagospire.com/

And here are links to two informational videos of the Chicago Spire:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNI37ncgdXQ
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpGsWa3kV8c

Be sure to check out the image gallery at http://www.thechicagospire.com/building/imagegallery/. Click on the FULLSCREEN link in the bottom right hand corner of the images to see them largest and best.

Artist's rendering of the Chicago Spire as it will be seen from Lake Michigan

Fascinating stuff, indeed!

Nathan Scheelhaase - new Illini football commitment

Another Juice Williams! GO ILLINI!



Two more videos are linked on the left side column; Segment #2 has the commitment announcement...
http://www.kcondemand.com/MetroSports.aspx

Chicago's "Cloud Gate" bean - COOL!!!

Photo by Dan O'Brien

Millennium Park's stainless steel "Cloud Gate" bean - what a cool sculpture!

For more details on the "Cloud Gate", check out http://gct13.com/e/20080312/chicago-bean and http://www.millenniumpark.org/artandarchitecture/cloud_gate.html.