The view from the top of the Tribune Tower on March 7, 1962, was heavy with fog due to thawing temperatures. Tribune photographer Jack Mulcahy was setting up a long-range camera when this picture was taken by Tribune photographer Phil Mascione. The Wrigley building is in the center.
The only tall building on the North Side of Chicago in 1922 is the Wrigley Building. Tribune Tower hadn’t been built and Rush Street had a small bridge behind the Wrigley building that spanned the Chicago River.
Mayor William Hale Thompson and his boat at the Wrigley Building in an undated photo. Thompson said he was going to sail to the South Seas.
Elliott Jenkins, left, and Thorne Donnelly are the original owners of WDAP, the predecessor to WGN radio. Jenkins and Donnelly are at their transmitter in the Wrigley Building in 1922. This 50-watt transmitter was built up from component parts by station engineers and was moved over to the Drake Hotel at the latter part of 1922.
A bird’s-eye view of the construction of the Tribune Tower is shown in 1924. The Wrigley Building is on the left.
The Tribune Tower, under construction in 1924, with the Wrigley Building on the other side of Michigan Avenue.
Wacker Drive looking east in 1927 with the Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower on the left. On the right are the London Guarantee, Mather and Jewelers buildings.
The London Guarantee Building (also known as the London Life Insurance Building and/or London Guaranty & Accident Building) is under construction at 360 N. Michigan Ave, circa 1923. The Wrigley Building is across the river.
An aerial view, circa 1928, of the Mather building, from left, London Guarantee & Accident Building, lower center, the Wrigley Building, the Medinah Athletic Club and the Tribune Tower.
Communist riot at the Wrigley Building in downtown Chicago, circa April 5, 1932.
The Wrigley Building, left, and the Tribune Tower in 1935.
Medinah Athletic Club, from left, Tribune Tower and the Wrigley Building as fog rolled in off Lake Michigan in April 1944.
Chicago at night, 1945. The Tribune Tower and Wrigley Building are at middle left.
An aerial view of Chicago in 1948, including the Tribune Tower and the Wrigley Building.
An automobile is destroyed by a bomb between two sections of the Wrigley building on July 12, 1965.
The view looking northwest from Randolph Street near Lake Shore Drive shows dark clouds moving over Michigan Avenue in 1958. The historic buildings, left to right, are 333 N. Michigan Ave., the Wrigley building and the Tribune Tower.
An undated image of the Chicago River, Michigan Avenue Bridge and the Wrigley Building from the Kaufman & Fabry Photo Collection part of “Urbanonimity” photo exhibit at the 312 Gallery.
Lillian Berg, of Chicago, walks across the Michigan Avenue Bridge with the Wrigley Building in the background under the protection of an umbrella as another day of rain and fog cover the city in January 1969.
The Wrigley Building, left, and the American Dental Association building are two of the structures designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White.
The tops of 1920s Chicago skyscrapers peek through fog in 1956. The buildings are the London Guarantee & Accident Building, from left, the Wrigley Building, 333 North Michigan Ave., Tribune Tower and the Palmolive Building.
The view from the top of the Tribune Tower on March 7, 1962, was heavy with fog due to thawing temperatures. Tribune photographer Jack Mulcahy was setting up a long-range camera when this picture was taken by Tribune photographer Phil Mascione. The Wrigley building is in the center.
Holiday decorations in Pioneer Court, looking toward the Wrigley Building on Michigan Avenue on Dec. 16, 1966, in Chicago.
The moon above Chicago as the clock on the Wrigley Building indicates 9:56 p.m., the time when Neil Armstrong set foot on lunar soil on July 20, 1969.
The adaptation of Baroque ornament in the Wrigley Building stands out sharply against the glass and steel design of the Equitable Building, located across Michigan Avenue, in July 1970.
Clear weather provides an excellent view of Chicago from atop Tribune Tower, showing the Wrigley Building down below on July 20, 1970. This view is looking southwest.
The walkway on lower Wacker Drive affords riverfront strollers a view of boaters and such North Michigan monoliths as the Wrigley Building, River Plaza and Tribune Tower on July 16, 1981.
