New Chicago skyscraper rivaling Trump's in height could rise behind a redeveloped Tribune Tower
CHICAGO - A skyscraper that would rival President Donald Trump's Chicago high-rise as the city's second-tallest would emerge behind the historic Tribune Tower, while the neo-Gothic office building would be turned into condominiums under still-evolving plans described by an alderman and two sources familiar with the proposal.
Envisioned as a hotel and condominium tower sheathed in steel and glass, the new skyscraper would soar to a height of 1,388 feet, downtown Ald. Brendan Reilly and a source familiar with the plans confirmed. That would be a foot shorter than the hotel-condo high-rise that Trump, then a real estate developer and reality TV star, completed in 2009.
Tribune Tower, whose flying buttresses and pinnacle-topped crown have long made it a symbol of its namesake newspaper, would be turned into condominiums, Reilly and two sources said. The tower's upper floors are already being gutted.
The plans, drawn up for the owners of the Tribune Tower property - CIM Group of Los Angeles and Chicago-based Golub & Co. - are expected to be presented to the Chicago Plan
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