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Dan Protess
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Architect Bruce Graham was lunching with colleagues in the late 1960s when he had an “Aha!” moment. He suddenly envisioned the shape he wanted to create for Sears Tower. But how to get his lunch companions to visualize it? In a scene right out of Mad Men, he picked up a fistful of cigarettes and extended some of them from his hand in a staggered profile. You’ll probably never see Sears (now Willis) Tower in quite the same way again!
Is it the Marshall Field’s holiday windows or lunch at the Walnut Room? Or the school field trip where you saw the Chagall and Picasso for the first time? What are your favorite memories of Chicago’s Loop? Share your perspectives and add your stories, memories, photos, and more to our collective history of the Loop.
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