Marina City

The corncobs: a city within a city, parking spiraling up the first 19 floors.

Chicago, IL 60654

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Community memory · 1964–today · Aug 7, 2026

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Marina City was financed in 1959 by the Building Service Employees' union, whose leader William McFetridge wanted to prove that middle-class workers would live downtown. Bertrand Goldberg designed two 60-story concrete cylinders: parking spirals up the first nineteen floors, wedge-shaped apartments above, a marina below. When finished in 1964 they were the tallest concrete structures in the world. A fleeing suspect drove a car off the parking ramp in a 1980 film.

Source: Chicago Architecture Center, Marina City; City of Chicago, Commission on Chicago Landmarks, Marina City landmark designation report; The Hunter (Paramount Pictures, 1980)

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