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Old Dec 9, 2016 | 11:20 am
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Originally Posted by Fleck
Harold Washington Library for one of the more bizarre mistakes of the recent past.
Oh, that it was.

I've always enjoyed pointing out the Blue Cross Blue Shield building to visitors. While the building doesn't look particularly noteworthy from an architectural perspective, it was intentionally designed so that it could be expanded not outward but upward, and in 2007 the building went from 33 stories to 57 stories tall.
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