Big Building, No Buzz

A new 1000-foot tower is rising in Chicago. But “hardly anybody is talking about Waterview Tower, even though construction just started on the 82-story skyscraper at the southwest corner of Wacker Drive and Clark Street. The lack of buzz is enough to make you wonder: Is it because the design is good but kind of tame or because Chicagoans have become totally blase about great height? ‘Ho hum. Another tower taller than New York’s Chrysler Building. Who’s the next pol to get indicted at City Hall’?”