Chicago Tribune: Daley to Trump: You're spired!

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0502100262feb10,1,661915.story?coll=chi-news-hed

"Donald Trump knows what he likes, and he didn't like a spire on his Chicago building.

"I hated the look of it," Trump said in October while discussing a recent design of the tower.

Mayor Richard Daley knows what he likes too. His tastes run toward the ornamental--concrete planters and wrought iron.

And the mayor wanted his skyline to have a spire in it.

In December, when the Donald was in town pitching his new fragrance, the mayor and the mogul went face to face in Daley's 5th-floor office in City Hall.

"He said, `I want a spire. It's important to the skyline,'" Trump spokeswoman Jill Cremer said of Daley.

And so it is that the latest design for Trump tower is topped by a pointy spike that--depending on how one counts it--could make the building the second tallest in the city and in America, not to mention the seventh tallest in the world."

Good and long article about how the Trump tower will affect the city's skyline, how buildings official heights are decided, the planning process behind Trump's tower and a list of the tallest buildings in Chicago and the world. There are also several sidebar links to different pictures. You can vote in a couple of polls: "Who's the boss? Daley or Trump?" "Would you like to work for Donald Trump?" and much more. This could distract you from work for at least an hour.