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Old 05-05-2008, 01:05 PM
 
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This happens in any city.

I live in jersey and i would drive by manhattan to get to queens to celebrate thanxsgiving or xmas and I would drop off my sister to her apartment in manhattan and that place would be dead at nights. though some do come back in to go clubbing late night.
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Old 05-05-2008, 09:32 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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...not to mention recent college grads who are going to spend the holidays at mom and dad's house in the suburbs.
Yeah that too.
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Old 05-05-2008, 09:42 PM
 
Location: Southeast Missouri
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The spire is alright. I still prefer most older architecture myself, but it's a nice looking building. If it were in St. Louis I probably wouldn't like it because it would stick out too much compared to the other buildings. But in Chicago it might work.
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Old 05-25-2008, 12:53 PM
 
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The Spire will be beautiful. Chicago is about innovation and change, about everything being on a grand scale and about fearlessness, about vistas vertically and horizontally.

Don't worry, the Spire, the Trump etc will leave the great city even further ahead of all its rivals.
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Old 05-25-2008, 05:51 PM
 
Location: suburbia
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The Spire is a really unique looking building. I think it will compliment the skyline very well. I wouldn't want to live in there, but it will deffinatly be worth a picture of when it's done.

It's gonna be 2000 feet tall. That will make it the second tallest building at completion, (only behind the Burj Dubai) and the tallest residential-only building on Earth.
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Old 05-26-2008, 01:41 PM
 
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To hell with those who hate the Spire. If they don't, that's their problem. People don't have some moral right to live in a city with a skyline of their choice. If the Spire is in fact disgusting and everyone feels the same way, the apartments won't sell and it won't get built. However, something tells me that won't be the case.
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Old 07-26-2008, 06:00 PM
 
Location: Roscoe Village
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I still say they should build frank Lloyd Wright's "The Illinois"
How tall and how many floors was Frank Lloyd Wrights "the Illinois" going to be?
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Old 07-27-2008, 12:18 AM
 
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the illinois was 5680 feet tall, i thought that was what the spire concept was based off of originally?
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Old 07-27-2008, 09:54 AM
 
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"The Illinois" is probably more commonly known as the "Mile High Tower".
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Old 07-27-2008, 02:34 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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I think he might have been a mile high when he conceived that thing...
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