A proposal to build a new 115-story building by 2009 could give Chicago claim to having the first and second tallest skyscrapers in the country.
The 2,000-foot tower, proposed by Chicago developer Christopher Carley and designed by noted architect Santiago Calatrava, would go up along the city’s lakefront near Navy Pier, northeast of the Loop.
The 110-floor Sears Tower is currently the nation’s tallest building. Carley’s building, minus its spire, would be 1,458 feet high — taller than the Sears Tower by eight feet.