Designed by famed architect William Le Baron Jenney and completed in 1885, it rose 10 stories (and eventually 12, after an ...

Today, a building has to be at least 40 stories to be classified as a skyscraper. Celebrate National Skyscraper Day by taking an elevator to the top one and just enjoy the view. ABC7 Chicago ...

Architect William LeBaron Jenney, left, is shown in an undated painting. Jenney designed Chicago’s Home Insurance Building of 1885 at LaSalle and Adams streets with an internal structure of iron ...

Unfortunately, you may no longer visit the world's first skyscraper in Chicago. The Home Insurance Building was demolished in 1931 to make way for the Field Building - now the LaSalle Bank ...

The Home Insurance Building (which no longer stands), built in 1885 with a skeleton construction, has been named the world’s first skyscraper. While it’s difficult to list only 11, here are ...

Home Insurance Building, 1885 - 138 ft. The Home Insurance Building had the honor of being the world's first skyscraper. ... Chicago Board of Trade Building, 1930 - 605 ft.

Right there in the 40-foot-high expanse of glass that lines the center’s front are scale models of five path-breaking high-rises: Chicago’s Home Insurance Building, often called the first ...