July 26, 1902 – The Chicago Daily Tribune reports that the People’s Gaslight and Coke
Company has purchased a building and leasehold interest of the property at the
northwest corner of Adams Street and Michigan Avenue for $200,000 from the Lake
Hotel Company. This will be the site of
the company’s new headquarters, a 21-story building designed by Daniel Burnham
and Company, finished in 1911. Although
People’s Gas moved out in 1995, the building still makes a statement across the
street from the Art Institute of Chicago with each of the columns at its base
made out of a solid piece of granite that is 26 feet tall, four-and-a-half feet
in diameter, weighing 30 tons. The photo above shows the new skyscraper going up in April of 1910. The building was built in two sections with a hollowed-out middle, the north section being completed first.
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