I love this tower so much I decided to give it its own thread. Here's a collection of shitty pictures I have taken of Chicago's best.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/james2390/SSC%20stuff/chicago0273t.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/james2390/SSC%20stuff/efwfvw.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/james2390/SSC%20stuff/TribuneTower2035634.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/james2390/SSC%20stuff/tommy266803.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/james2390/SSC%20stuff/chicago006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/james2390/SSC%20stuff/Chicago042.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/james2390/SSC%20stuff/Chicago040.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/james2390/SSC%20stuff/Chicago038.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/james2390/SSC%20stuff/BlackandWhiteTribune.jpg

And a bonus, this kickass red lady...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/james2390/SSC%20stuff/Chicago034.jpg

I've always wondered, what's at the top? Executive offices? Those must be some sweet views from the top.

I don't know, but it would be the coolest place in the world to live!

I've been inside the Tribune Tower.

When I was 17 I wrote a letter to Steve Chapman, a columnist and member of the editorial board, to complain about one of their editorials, and he invited me to sit in on a meeting.

The building is beautiful on the inside--anyone who hasn't seen the lobby should at least peek in and see that--and the editorial board room is in a corner on the southwest side of the building with views of the Chicago River and the Loop.

That being said, the actual meeting struck me as something that could have happened among some particularly precocious but cynical high schoolers who happened to be fat and balding.

(Except for Chapman--really--who is intelligent, thin, and fully-haired, not to mention generous for extending me the invitation, and a youngish woman from Madison, Wisconsin, the two of whom were pretty much the only opposition to the remainder of the board who all matched the original description and were from Schaumburg.)

I'm jealous! I need to take a peak next time I am in Chicago.

Wow..I like the base! Never seen pics of it at street level before :eek:

The base reminds me of One Atlantic Center in Atlanta :)

Hah, funny you mention that. This tower (and Trinity Church in Boston) is the one that inspired Johnson/Burgee to build One Atlantic Center. OAC is my other fav.

Nice. The base looks really small

http://www.tonner.org/chicago/images/DSC01075.jpg
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/vbhandar/www/Album_Chicago/scan0058.jpg

The many stones embedded into the base of the tower, coming from the most beautiful buildings in the world, including the Taj Mahal and pyramids in Giza.

Isn't the Freedom Museum in the base going to open in Spring?

very nice

The many stones embedded into the base of the tower, coming from the most beautiful buildings in the world, including the Taj Mahal and pyramids in Giza.

Isn't the Freedom Museum in the base going to open in Spring?

Great pics. I didn't know anything about a museum, but I do now. :)