Talk:Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)/Archives/2020

Height and rank
I am confused by the height and -height rank material. The article states that the building is the second tallest in Chicago, but Big John is taller with and without antennas in the silhouettes. And then elsewhere in the text, we read "The Trump International Hotel and Tower rises 1,400 feet (426.7 m) from the building's main entrance on Wabash Avenue to the tip of the architectural spire.[24] Upon its completion in 2009, the building became the seventh-tallest building in the world, behind the 1,380-foot (420.6 m) Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, People's Republic of China.. . . As the Trump International Hotel and Tower has a riverwalk entrance and pedestrian level 27 feet (8.2 m) below the building's Wabash Avenue entrance, the skyscraper's official height was recalculated as 1,388 feet (423.2 m) without a physical addition to the structure. According to the CTBUH, the recalculated height also made the tower the sixth-tallest building in the world, surpassing the Jin Mao Tower by 9 feet (2.7 m)." Originally, it was calculated at 1,400 feet, but not as tall as the 1,380-building; then the measure was lowered, and it thereby pass the 1,380-foot building. This does not many any sense what-so-ever to me.Kdammers (talk) 10:50, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Video and protests
The building has been the target of many notable protests, including the George Floyd protests. This should be in the article.



Victor Grigas (talk) 18:08, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Subsection update

 * A sub-subsection of Floods in 2014, Environmental lawsuit filed in 2018, has outdated material, or at best is incomplete. The "Friends of the Chicago River and the Sierra Club" supposedly joined the lawsuit and it is, as written, "hanging in limbo". The information is from 2018, the source requires a subscription (this could be noted), and there is no information that the suit is still pending or that any further steps have been taken.
 * In the spirit of providing "our very best work", as determined by the criteria, it would seem this could (should) be updated (working on almost two year old information) to be more complete and neutral. -- Otr500 (talk) 12:35, 7 August 2020 (UTC)