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