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Aqua Facts

- an 82 story mixed use skyscraper in Lakeshore East development;

- Aqua is, by this date, the largest project awarded to an American architectural firm headed by a woman: Jeanne Gang;

- the building will be the first one in Downtown Chicago to combine condos, apartments and a hotel;

- some of the balconies stretch out as much as 12 feet (3.7 meters) providing a wave-like facade to the building; this, of course, was intentionally designed; this together with the name Aqua were chosen to reflect the building’s location next to Lake Michigan.

View Of The Downtown From The Dan Ryan Expressway

View of Chicago’s Skyline from the Dan Ryan Expressway sometimes last summer. You can easily spot the Sears Tower and 311 S Wacker (right next to it). See? Traffic is good at something: taking pictures

A large portion of the building costs of…

…$36 million were financed by The Union of Building Janitors and Elevator Operators. The Union was hoping to stop the white flight exodus of middle-class residents from downtown.