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15-662: In 1861, Chicago Dock and Canal Company constructed the Odgen Slip. It was among many real estate investments of the company that were overseen by William B. Ogden . The slip was constructed with approval by the United States Department of War . The slip parallels the North Bank of the Chicago River , and was utilized as a harbor , and was home to warehouses well into the twentieth century. By

30-519: Is also used as a vanity address) in downtown Chicago's Magnificent Mile area. Completed in 1989, the 37-story building reaches a height of 627 feet (191 m). NBC 's Chicago offices, studios, and owned-and-operated station WMAQ-TV are based in the building. At 10 o'clock on the evening of October 1, 1989, WMAQ-TV broadcast its first newscast from the new home, with the then-weeknight news team of Ron Magers , Carol Marin , John Coleman , and Mark Giangreco . Telemundo O&O WSNS-TV has also occupied

45-485: The Chicago River . It currently operates as an equity-oriented real estate investment trust. The company was established in 1857. One of the major investors involved in its founding was former Chicago mayor William B. Ogden , who received help from his lawyer , Abraham Lincoln (who would later go on to serve as United States president ), in establishing the company. Odgen successfully worked with Lincoln to gain titles to river and lakefront properties. In 1861,

60-531: The Merchandise Mart to a new studio in the tower. WKQX and WLUP-FM operated temporarily from the former WLS studios at 190 N. State St. On August 4, 2016, the move of WKQX and WLUP-FM to the tower was finalized. CBS Media Ventures ' Chicago branch is located in Suite 2910. From the tower's opening to 2006, WMAQ/WSCR radio studios were also located in the building. The stations relocated. The tower

75-581: The NBC Tower . The Chicago Dock and Canal Company retained control over the rest of the land. The company, officially, continues to act as a Chicago-based equity oriented real estate investment trust. However, in functionality, it was absorbed by Daniel McLean's MCL Companies in 1987. NBC Tower The NBC Tower is an office tower on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois located at 454 North Columbus Drive (455 North Cityfront Plaza

90-535: The Tribune Tower from Lake Shore Drive , through the slip. Such buildings as NBC Tower , Loews Hotel Tower , and 465 North Park have had their designs influenced by this policy. 41°53′25″N 87°36′54″W  /  41.8904°N 87.6149°W  / 41.8904; -87.6149 Chicago Dock and Canal Company The Chicago Dock and Canal Company is a company established by William B. Ogden in 1857 which constructed civil works projects along

105-461: The 1960s, formal discussions were had by the Chicago Dock and Canal Company about redeveloping the real estate surrounding the slip. By the mid-1980s, redevelopment around the slip was being formally planned. The Chicago Dock and Canal Trust was still controlled by William B. Ogden's descendants, and made their property in the area available for residential and commercial development as part of

120-557: The 1980s. In 1962, the company reconstituted itself as a real estate trust . In the 1980s, the company began making the land they owned available for residential and commercial development. They partnered with the real estate arm of Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States to form plans to redevelop their land in the vicinity of the Ogden Slip as Cityfront Center . This arrangement with Equitable had been in

135-541: The Cityfront Plaza area, the building contains 850,000 sq ft (79,000 m ) of space and three floors of underground parking with 261 spaces. Connected to the main tower is a four-story radio and television broadcasting facility where WSNS's newscasts and WMAQ's newscasts are currently taped, and was the former recording facility for Jerry Springer and The Steve Wilkos Show before their tax credit-influenced move to Stamford, Connecticut in 2009. It

150-634: The building since its purchase by NBC in 2001, and NBC's former radio properties, WKQX , and WLUP-FM , continue to maintain studios in the tower. The design, by Adrian D. Smith of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill , is in the Art Deco style and bears a marked similarity to 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City , which is NBC's global headquarters. The tower is further enhanced by the use of limestone piers and recessed tinted glass with granite spandrels . The building takes additional cues from

165-467: The company constructed the Ogden Slip . Ogden, who had no children of his own, left a large share of the company to his niece Eleanor Wheeler after his 1877 death. She married Alexander C. McClurg . The company was the plaintiff in the 1913 United States Supreme Court case Chicago Dock & Canal Co. v. Fraley . The company was owned by descendants of relatives of William B. Ogden into

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180-538: The nearby landmark Tribune Tower with the use of flying buttresses . A 130 ft (40 m) broadcast tower and spire tops the skyscraper . WMAQ and WSNS have STL and satellite facilities on the roof; the STLs link to WMAQ and WSNS's transmitter facilities atop the Willis Tower . WMAQ radio/WSCR studios and STL were located in the building until 2006 when they relocated to Two Prudential Plaza . Located in

195-401: The planned Cityfront Center development. The abutting Pugh Terminal building (originally built between 1905 and 1920) was renovated into " North Pier ", a retail complex. The so-called "Ogden Slip view corridor" was created in the mid-1980s. When the redevelopment of the real estate near and surrounding the Ogden Slip was taking place, the city adopted a policy to preserve a view of the top of

210-555: The works since the 1960s. Equitable had built the Equitable Building on adjacent property in the 1960s. Cityfront Center was a multi-billion dollar megadevelopment. Equitable Life Insurance and the Chicago Dock and Canal Company were originally going to act as co-developers of a joint venture. However, their joint venture dissolved in late 1985, with Equitable retaining eleven acres of land west of Columbus Drive , where they developed such components of Cityfront Center as

225-458: Was also home to the 1990s syndicated improv/sketch show Kwik Witz , The Jenny Jones Show until its cancellation in 2003, Steve Harvey until its move to Los Angeles in 2017, and Judge Mathis until its cancellation in 2023. The following TV and radio stations are located in the building: In February 2016, alternative station WKQX and sister classic rock station WLUP-FM announced that they will be moving from their longtime home in

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