Chase Tower (Chicago)

Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox building Chase Tower, located in the Chicago Loop area of Chicago, Illinois, at 10 South Dearborn Street, is a 60-story skyscraper completed in 1969. At 850 feet (259 m) tall, it is the fourteenth-tallest building in Chicago and the tallest building inside the Chicago 'L' Loop elevated tracks, and, as of May 2022, the 66th-tallest in the United States. JPMorgan Chase has its U.S. and Canada commercial and retail banking headquarters here.<ref>JPMorgan History | The History of Our Firm</ref> The building is also the headquarters of Exelon.<ref>"Contact Us Template:Webarchive." Exelon. Retrieved on December 5, 2009.</ref> The building and its plaza (known as Exelon Plaza) occupy the entire block bounded by Clark, Dearborn, Madison, and Monroe streets.

History

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The First Chicago Bank clock in Chase Tower's Exelon Plaza

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First Chicago Bank plaque below the clock in Exelon Plaza

Before the building was constructed, the Morrison Hotel, on its former site, was demolished in 1965. The building first opened in 1969 as First National Plaza. When constructed, it was the headquarters of First Chicago Corporation.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1998, it became the headquarters for Bank One Corporation, and accordingly it was renamed Bank One Tower,<ref>"Contact Information." Bank One Corporation. April 10, 2001. Retrieved on March 31, 2010.</ref> The current name dates from October 24, 2005, one year after Bank One merged with Chase. Chase's retail bank division is based in the tower.

For a time the National Public Radio show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! was taped on Thursday nights before a live audience at the Chase Auditorium under the plaza.<ref>"Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!." Retrieved on February 9, 2010.</ref> In 2022 the show permanently moved to the Fine Arts Building.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Design and features

Design architects for the construction were C.F. Murphy Associates, Stanislaw Z. Gladych and Perkins and Will.<ref name=autogenerated2 /> Chase Tower is known for both its distinctive curving shape and its vibrant public space: a deep sunken plaza at the geographic center of the Chicago Loop, complete with a jet fountain and Marc Chagall's ceramic wall mural Four Seasons.<ref name=autogenerated1 />

The ground floor is home to the largest Chase Bank branch in Chicago with 22 ATMs.

See also

• List of tallest buildings in the United States
• List of tallest buildings in Chicago
• World's tallest structures
• List of tallest buildings in the world

External links

• projectchicago.org entry: Chase Tower
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• Chase press release when the company changed the tower's name in 2005
• skyscraper.org

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