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Schaumburg's Would-Be Giant

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on Jan 14, 2010 8:30PM

It wasn't too long ago we were looking at the Chicago connections to the world's new tallest building, located in Dubai. Now, Lee Bey uncovers the story of plans to build the world's then-tallest building...in Schaumburg. Proposed in 1973, behold, the Schaumburg Space Needle. [via]

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