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skyscraper located at 435

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, United States. Built between 1923 and 1925, the international design competition for the tower became a historic event in 20th-century architecture. The tower was the home of the ''

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'',

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, and

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(720 kHz) originated broadcasts from the building until moving to 303 Wacker Drive in June 2018. The last WGN Radio broadcast left from the Tribune Tower on June 18, 2018. The ground level formerly housed the large restaurant Howells & Hood (named for the building's architects), now closed, whose patio overlooked nearby Pioneer Court and Michigan Avenue.

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's Chicago bureau was also located in the building. It is listed as a

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and is a contributing property to the

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. The original Tribune Tower was built in 1868, but was destroyed in the

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in 1871.

Design competition

In 1922 the ''Chicago Tribune'' hosted an international interior and exterior design competition for its new headquarters to mark its 75th anniversary, and offered $100,000 in prize money with a $50,000 first prize for "the most beautiful and distinctive office building in the world". The competition worked brilliantly for months as a publicity stunt, and the resulting entries still reveal a unique turning point in American architectural history. More than 260 entries were received. The winner was a

design by New York architects

John Mead Howells John Mead Howells, (; August 14, 1868 – September 22, 1959), was an American architect. Early life and education Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of author William Dean Howells, he earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard Unive ...

and

Raymond Hood Raymond Mathewson Hood (March 29, 1881 – August 14, 1934) was an American architect who worked in the Neo-Gothic and Art Deco styles. He is best known for his designs of the Tribune Tower, American Radiator Building, and Rockefeller Center. Thr ...

, with

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es near the top. The entry that many perceived as the best, by the

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architect

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, took second place and received $20,000. Saarinen's tower was preferred by architects like

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, and was a strong influence on the next generation of skyscrapers, including Raymond Hood's own subsequent work on the McGraw-Hill Building and the

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. The 1929 Gulf Building in

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, designed by architects

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, Kenneth Franzheim, and

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, is a close realization of that Saarinen design.

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's 181 West Madison Street Building in Chicago is also thought to be inspired by Saarinen's design. Other Tribune tower entries by figures like

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, and

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remain intriguing suggestions of what might have been, but perhaps not as intriguing as the one surmounted by a Mount Rushmore-like head of an American Indian. These entries were originally published by the Tribune Company in 1923 under the title ''Tribune Tower Competition'' and later in ''The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition: Skyscraper Design and Cultural Change in the 1920s'' by Katherine Solomonson, 2001. In the 1980 book entitled ''The Tribune Tower Competition'' published by Rizzoli, authors

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Stanley Tigerman Stanley Tigerman (September 20, 1930 – June 3, 2019) was an American architect, theorist and designer. Biography Early years Tigerman was born into a Jewish family, the only child of Emma (Stern), a typist for the federal government, and Sam ...

as well as Bruce Abbey and other architects jokingly submitted "late entries" in Volume II of the work. Archival materials regarding the competition and the building are held by the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries at the

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The building

Design

By 1922 the neo-Gothic skyscraper had become an established design tactic, with the first important so-called "American Perpendicular Style" at

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of 1913. This was a late example, perhaps the last important example, and criticized for its perceived historicism. Construction on the Tribune Tower was completed in 1925 and reached a height of 462 feet (141 m) above ground. The ornate buttresses surrounding the peak of the tower are especially visible when the tower is lit at night. As was the case with most of Hood's projects, the sculptures and decorations were made by the American artist

Rene Paul Chambellan Rene Paul Chambellan (September 15, 1893 – November 29, 1955) was an American sculptor who specialized in architectural sculpture. He was also one of the foremost practitioners of what was then called the "French Modern Style" and has subseque ...

. The tower features carved images of

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(Hood) and a howling dog (Howells) near the main entrance to commemorate the architects. The top of the tower is designed after the ''Tour de beurre'' (″butter tower″) of the

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in France, which is characteristic of the

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style, that is to say, without a spire but with a crown-shaped top. Rene Paul Chambellan contributed his sculpture talents to the buildings ornamentation, gargoyles and the famous Aesops' Screen over the main entrance doors. Rene Chambellan worked on other projects with Raymond Hood including the

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and

in New York City. Also, among the gargoyles on the Tribune Tower is one of a frog. That piece was created by Rene Chambellan to represent himself jokingly as he is of French ancestry. File:Tribune Tower6 (straightened).jpg, Tribune Tower in 2009 File:Tribune Tower3.jpg,

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es on the top of the building File:2015-03-14 07.58.16 St Patrick's Day Parade P3140020 (34889365000).jpg, The Tribune Tower (right) above the

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File:Tribune Tower Aerial 2021.jpg, Tribune Tower in July 2021, with noticeable additions on part of the condo conversion.

Collection of famous building fragments

Prior to the building of the Tribune Tower, correspondents for the ''

'' brought back rocks and bricks from a variety of historically important sites throughout the world at the request of Colonel McCormick. Many of these fragments have been incorporated into the lowest levels of the building and are labeled with their location of origin. Stones included in the wall are from such sites as the St. Stephen's Cathedral, Trondheim Cathedral,

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, the

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Hagia Sophia Hagia Sophia ( 'Holy Wisdom'; ; ; ), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque ( tr, Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Şerifi), is a mosque and major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. The cathedral was originally built as a Greek Ortho ...

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from the

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, the

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, The Alamo,

Notre Dame de Paris Notre-Dame de Paris (; meaning "Our Lady of Paris"), referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité (an island in the Seine River), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. The cathedral, dedicated to the ...

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, the

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, Ta Prohm,

Wawel Castle The Wawel Royal Castle (; ''Zamek Królewski na Wawelu'') and the Wawel Hill on which it sits constitute the most historically and culturally significant site in Poland. A fortified residency on the Vistula River in Kraków, it was established on ...

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, and

's Butter Tower, which inspired the shape of the building. Some of these had a political or social context, such as the stone from the

Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall (german: Berliner Mauer, ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and East Germany (GDR). Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government ...

. The column fragment of

, located in its own niche over the upper-left corner of the main entrance, is a visual tribute to Chicago's large Polish population, the largest such presence outside of the

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. There are 149 fragments in the building. In 1999, during a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission,

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presented a rock brought from the

Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...

, which was displayed in a window in the Tribune gift store (it could not be added to the wall, as

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

owns a large majority of the Apollo Moon rocks, and this one was merely on loan to the Tribune). The rock was removed in 2011 due to an outdated display. A new rock display is planned but has not been installed . A piece of steel recovered from the

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has been added to the wall.

Buildings influenced by the Tower

Several buildings around the world make reference to the design of the Tribune Tower, most notably in Australia: the spires of the Grace Building in

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and the

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Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

. Additionally, the architects of

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located in the Midtown section of

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were influenced by the building which is most evident in the shaft of the building as well as the base.

Freedom Museum

On April 11, 2006, the

McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum The McCormick Freedom Museum was the first museum in the United States dedicated to the First Amendment by the McCormick Foundation. It was open from April 11, 2006, until March 1, 2009. The museum offered visitors an interactive experience focu ...

opened, occupying two stories of the building, including the previous location of high-end gift store

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. The museum closed this location on March 1, 2009, and redirected its efforts to become an online museum.

Open House Chicago

Tribune Tower has participated in

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's event

Open House Chicago Open House Chicago (OHC) is a free weekend festival held annually in Chicago that allows participants to visit dozens of buildings that are not typically open to the public. The next festival will be held on 16–17 October 2021 because 2020 was sc ...

every year, starting in 2011. This annual opportunity allows visitors to tour the interior of the building for free.

Condo conversion

The ''

'', the building's main tenant since it opened, moved out in June 2018, in order for the building to be converted to condos. The conversion of the building is set to cost more than 500 million dollars. The conversion has run into some legal troubles regarding the sign: the ''Chicago Tribune'' contends that the sign is their intellectual property, so it can not remain on the building, but the developers stated that they had a contractual agreement to buy the sign for one dollar. Col. Robert R. McCormick's former iconic office on the 24th floor will be turned into offices. In the former parking lot for Tribune Tower, there are plans to build Tribune Tower East, a super-tall skyscraper that would become the city's second-tallest.

In popular culture

* On November 21 and 28, 2007, in episodes entitled "One Wedding and a Funeral" and "The Thing About Heroes" of the television series ''

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'', historical pieces stolen from the building led

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(

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) to his hometown of

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. Upon further investigation of the man stalking him, Taylor found a dead body in an office of an unused floor in the building. The episodes were filmed entirely on location in Chicago. *

Conan O'Brien Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is best known for having hosted late-night talk shows for almost 28 years, beginning with ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' (19 ...

was seen running past the tower while en route from

New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' ...

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on his first episode as host of ''

The Tonight Show ''The Tonight Show'' is an American late-night talk show that has aired on NBC since 1954. The show has been hosted by six comedians: Steve Allen (1954–1957), Jack Paar (1957–1962), Johnny Carson (1962–1992), Jay Leno (1992–2009 and 201 ...

''. * The snipers in '' Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' are shooting from the 26th floor of the Tribune Tower just below the buttresses.

References

External links

*
1925 – Chicago Tribune Tower, Chicago, Illinois
at Archiseek
Saarinen's second place entry

"Tribune Tower could be for sale" – ''Chicago Tribune'', June 25, 2008

The Crown at the Tribune Tower

Howells & Hood restaurant

Tribune Tower Events

Tribune Tower
at Art Atlas—high-resolution 360° panoramas and images
Article in ''Western Architect'' (1925) with original floor plans
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