She flashed her green thumb at Northerly Island and the Lucas Museum (its Jabba-like fatness now buffered by parkland), wrapped the new Writers Theatre in Glencoe, spruced up Hyde Park, and unveiled plans to make North Lawndale’s police station more YMCA than barracks. Oh yeah, she also cemented plans for Vista Tower: At 1,186 feet, it will be Chicago’s third-tallest skyscraper.

Gang’s Plans

Vista Tower by the numbers

1,186

feet tall

5

years to complete

93

floors

1.9

million square feet

3rd

-tallest skyscraper in Chicago