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Originally Posted by Toasty Joe
If we lower the threshold to a bit, Chicago saw four very tall towers completed between 1989-1990:
- two supertalls: Franklin Center (1007'), Two Prudential (995')
- two near supertalls: 311 S Wacker (961'), 900 N Michigan (871')
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and even then, those two "super-talls" listed above have asterisks in my mind because they only achieve those heights with the technicality of decorative sticks.
by roof height those 4 look like this:
311 S Wacker - 961'
Two Prudential - 915'
Franklin Center - 886'
900 N Michigan - 871'
no doubt that's still one of the most impressive clusters of tall buildings ever built at the same time in the history of our planet up until that point in time, but certainly not qualifying for "4 super-talls U/C at the same time".
another impressive collection of 4 tall buildings U/C at the same time in chicago was just recently with:
st. regis - 1,196'
NEMA - 896'
OBP - 837'
110 N wacker - 814'