Chicago - Wrigley Building

[ddny]

Architect: Graham, Anderson, Probst & White

Style: Spanish Revival

Year: 1922

Description: This building was built on the approximate site of Chicago's first home (home of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable). Named after the creator of Wrigley Spearment Gum???? Chicago people...tell me the story behind this building.

[Kris]

Fine building. I don't know if there are many Chicagoans here. How do you like the city?

[ddny]

Quote: from Kris on 10:15 pm on Mar. 25, 2003
Fine building. I don't know if there are many Chicagoans here. How do you like the city?

I like Chicago. My first impressions....feels like a laid-back NYC. Great architecture, less crowded, cleaner, and friendly people.

It's not really as big as I thought it would be. I could walk from the River North area to my client in downtown in 20 minutes.

[NYatKNIGHT]

Except the weather, which can get gruesome, it's a great city, no doubt. I'm glad to be there and enjoy myself every time I go, which is somewhat often. And the Wrigley Building is a superstar.

I have to say this though: I have NEVER met someone from Chicago who doesn't compare it with New York (including my own brother now). I'm not talking about these skyscraper websites either, it's Chicagoans wherever I personally meet them. Once they find out I'm from New York then it begins. I hear similar accounts from others as well. Chicagoans have a bad second-city complex and seem to verbally attack New York whenever they can. Here, we don't think about Chicago any more than we do other cities, but there they are seemingly preoccupied with New York and why Chicago is better. Even the local television commercials and radio ads somehow feed into it, portraying New Yorkers as the bad guy, or the dimwit. It's too bad, they have a wonderful city.

[Fabb]

Apparently, there are not many Chicagoans in here.
I'll just give my impressions, then , as a non-Chicagoan.

I'm glad they built the pedestrian subway that leads to the Field Museum.
The access to the Museum was the only thing I hated before in Chicago. The rest is pretty much perfect.

I love the skyline and I keep wondering whether Sears looks better with half a dozen antennas, or just two.

[ddny]

I have to agree Fabb...Chicago has many qualities that make it great.

In terms of architecture, I don't think there's very little to complain about. You just won't find as many "mistakes" as you might find in other skyscraper capitals.

[theodore]

Hi all, long time lurker, first time poster. *Thought I'd chime in here on this one.

As a Chicagoan, I sort of see the city as the capital of the midwest, with global city traits. *Obviously, New York is at a higher, and completely different level. *NYC is still my favorite city in this country.

It's natural to compare the two cities, because they do have a lot of things in common. *But I wouldn't necessarily say we are preoccupied with comparisons. *To me, the city feels self-confident and walks with some swagger, which usually doesn't coexist with an inferiority complex.

Anyway, great photos ddny, as always. *Were these taken on St. Patrick's Day? *I noticed a greenish tint to the river, though that could be anyday of year, really.