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If
you can't be the tallest building on the skyline, you may as well be the
brightest. The crown of 311 S. Wacker lights up the night sky with
so much intensity--nearly 2,000 flourescent tubes' worth--that it manages
to compete for attention across the street from the world famous Sears
Tower (from which this picture was taken). 311 S. Wacker is the sixth tallest
building in the city, and--in the category of obscure bragging rights--the
tallest unnamed building in the world. It was initially meant to draw attention
not only for is luminosity, but for its quantity; there were going
to be two others just like it, but the money never materialized. When I
talked to Blair Kamin about this building, he said it's probably a good
thing; 311 is a strong member of the skyline, enlivening an otherwise flat
and plain region south of the Sears--but triplets would be overkill.
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