Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)

Trump International Hotel and Tower
Trump International Hotel and Tower shortly after completion in August 2008
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Condo-hotel
Architectural style	Modern
Location	401 North Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Coordinates	41°53′20″N 87°37′35″W / 41.8889°N 87.6264°W / 41.8889; -87.6264
Construction started	March 17, 2005
Completed	January 3, 2009
Opening	January 30, 2008
Cost	$847 million
Height
Antenna spire	1,388 feet (423.1 m)
Roof	1,171 feet (356.9 m)
Top floor	98
Technical details
Floor count	98
Floor area	2.6 million square feet (240,000 m2)
Lifts/elevators	27
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Adrian Smith
Developer	Donald Trump
Structural engineer	William F. Baker
Main contractor	Bovis Lend Lease
References
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The Trump International Hotel and Tower is a skyscraper condo-hotel in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The building, named for Donald Trump, was designed by architect Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Bovis Lend Lease built the 100-story structure, which reaches a height of 1,388 feet (423.2 m) including its spire, its roof topping out at 1,169 feet (356 m). It is next to the main branch of the Chicago River, with a view of the entry to Lake Michigan beyond a series of bridges over the river. The building received publicity when the winner of the first season of The Apprentice reality television show, Bill Rancic, chose to manage the construction of the tower over managing a Rancho Palos Verdes–based Trump National Golf Course & Resort in the Los Angeles metro area.

Trump announced in 2001 that the skyscraper would become the tallest building in the world, but after the September 11 attacks that same year, the architects scaled back the building's plans, and its design underwent several revisions. When topped out in 2009, it became the second-tallest building in the U.S. It surpassed the city's John Hancock Center as the building with the highest residence (apartment or condo) in the world, and briefly held this title until the completion of the Burj Khalifa.

The design of the building includes, from the ground up, retail space, a parking garage, a hotel and condominiums. The 339-room hotel opened for business with limited accommodations and services on January 30, 2008, then full accommodation and services on April 28. The building was topped out in late 2008 and construction was completed in 2009. In 2024, following a six-year lawsuit, the Trump Tower's cooling water intake system was ruled to be in violation of state environmental laws that protect the Chicago River, which it overlooks, by creating and operating "a public nuisance in violation of Illinois law".