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People cross the BP Pedestrian Bridge, a girder footbridge over Columbus Drive that connects Millennium Park with Daley Bicentennial Plaza, in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The bridge along with the Jay Pritzker Pavillion were designed by architect Frank Gehry.    UPI/Brian Kersey

People cross the BP Pedestrian Bridge, a girder footbridge over Columbus Drive that connects Millennium Park with Daley Bicentennial Plaza, in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The bridge along with the Jay Pritzker Pavillion were designed by architect Frank Gehry. UPI/Brian Kersey

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      Chicago City Hall stands at the end of Richard J. Daley Plaza in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The building houses the government offices of the City of Chicago as well as many offices of Cook County government.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Merchandise Mart stands along the Chicago River on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The building was the largest building in the world with 4,000,000 square feet of floor space when it opened in 1930.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Auditorium Building housing the Auditorium Theatre and Roosevelt University stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The Building, completed in 1889, is one of the most well-known designs of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Trump International Hotel and Tower (L) and the Carbon and Carbide building are seen from Michigan Avenue on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. Originally built as a high-rise office tower in 1929, the Carbon and Carbide building is an example of Art Deco architecture designed by Daniel and Hubert Burnham, sons of architect Daniel Burnham, and has been home to the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago since 2004. The Trump Tower opened in 2008 as a mixed hotel-residential and is the second-tallest building in the United States.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The newly-constructed Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago stands on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Modern Wing is home to the museum's collection of early 20th-century European art as well as contemporary art from after 1960, new photography, video media, architecture and design galleries, temporary exhibition space, shops, classrooms, a cafe and a restaurant.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      Cars drive on Wacker Drive past the Trump International Hotel and Tower on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Trump Tower opened in 2008 as a mixed hotel-residential and is the second-tallest building in the United States.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      An anti-abortion billboard depicting U.S. President Barack Obama hangs on the side of a building on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. Life Always, the group behind the controversial "Dangerous Place" billboard in New York City, plans up to 30-plus billboards in South Side neighborhoods.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Trump Tower (R-L), the United Building, the Leo Burnett Building the Unitrin Building and 35 East Wacker Drive stand along the Chicago River on March 31, 2011 in Chicago.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Jay Pritzker Pavilion, a bandshell designed by architect Frank Gehry , is featured in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The pavilion has 4,000 fixed seats, plus additional lawn seating for 7,000.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      One Prudential Plaza (L-R) stands with Two Prudential Plaza, the John Handcock Center and the Aon Center on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Boeing logo hangs from the Boeing Building, international headquarters for the Boeing Company, in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Boeing moved its corporate headquarters to Chicago from Seattle in 2001.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Smurfit-Stone Building (L) along with the Trump Tower stand in Chicago on March 31, 2011.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Tribune logo hangs from the Chicago Tribune Company headquarters in Chicago on March 31, 2011.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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      People cross the BP Pedestrian Bridge, a girder footbridge over Columbus Drive that connects Millennium Park with Daley Bicentennial Plaza, in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The bridge along with the Jay Pritzker Pavillion were designed by architect Frank Gehry.    UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Trump International Hotel and Tower (L) and the Wrigley Building  share the skyline on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The building consists of two towers, completed in 1921 and 1924 and houses the headquarters of the William Wrigley Jr. Company.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Smurfit-Stone Building stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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      One Prudential Plaza (L) stands with Two Prudential Plaza on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      One Prudential Plaza (L) stands with Two Prudential Plaza on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      A bust of former Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director and conductor Sir George Solti is displayed in Grant Park as a banner advertising current CSO music director Riccardo Muti hangs from Symphony Center in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Muti has missed much of his first year as CSO music director due to health problems.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Jay Pritzker Pavilion, a bandshell designed by architect Frank Gehry , is featured in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The pavilion has 4,000 fixed seats, plus additional lawn seating for 7,000.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Seventeen Church of Christ, Scientist stands on Wacker Drive in Chicago on March 31, 2011.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      One and Two Prudential Plaza (L-R), the Aon Center, the Aqua Tower and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower are seen from East Randolph Street in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The Obama 2012 campaign headquarters are located in One Prudential Plaza and the Aon Center serves as the corporate headquarters for Aon Corp., the world's second largest insurance brokerage, and largest reinsurance brokerage.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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      A pedestrian crosses the Michigan Avenue bridge as the Wrigley Building stands in the background on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The building consists of two towers, completed in 1921 and 1924 and houses the headquarters of the William Wrigley Jr. Company.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The CNA Center stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The building, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and completed in 1972, houses the corporate headquarters of CNA Financial Corporation.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The CNA Center stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The building, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and completed in 1972, houses the corporate headquarters of CNA Financial Corporation.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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      People look at their reflections in Cloud Gate, a sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The sculpture, commonly know as "The Bean" is one of the park's most popular features.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      Cars drive by the Sullivan Center, formerly known as the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, on March 31, 2011. Designed by architect Louis Sullivan and built in 1899, the building has been a Chicago Landmark since 1975. Target Corp. recently announced that it is planning to open a retail store in the location.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Boeing Building, international headquarters for the Boeing Company, stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Boeing moved its corporate headquarters to Chicago from Seattle in 2001.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      A large poster of Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti hangs from Symphony Center on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. Originally named Theodore Thomas Orchestra Hall when constructed in 1904, the complex is home to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Sinfonietta.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      Cloud Gate, a sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, is featured in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The sculpture, commonly know as "The Bean" is one of the park's most popular features.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The newly-constructed Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago stands on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Modern Wing is home to the museum's collection of early 20th-century European art as well as contemporary art from after 1960, new photography, video media, architecture and design galleries, temporary exhibition space, shops, classrooms, a cafe and a restaurant.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The CNA Center stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The building, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and completed in 1972, houses the corporate headquarters of CNA Financial Corporation.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Jay Pritzker Pavilion, a bandshell designed by architect Frank Gehry, is featured in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The pavilion has 4,000 fixed seats, plus additional lawn seating for 7,000.     UPI/Brian Kersey

      4.88

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      Cars drive by the Sullivan Center, formerly known as the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, on March 31, 2011. Designed by architect Louis Sullivan and built in 1899, the building has been a Chicago Landmark since 1975. Target Corp. recently announced that it is planning to open a retail store in the location.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Merchandise Mart stands along the Chicago River on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The building was the largest building in the world with 4,000,000 square feet of floor space when it opened in 1930.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Mather Tower, a Neo-Gothic, terra cotta-clad high-rise structure stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The building, completed in 1928 currently houses two hotels and was designated a Chicago landmark in 2001.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      A sign identifies the Aon Center in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The Aon Center serves as the corporate headquarters for Aon Corp., the world's second largest insurance brokerage, and largest reinsurance brokerage.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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      A crowd waits for the Art Institute of Chicago to open on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. At its current location since 1893 and housing over 260,000 works, the museum is most famous for its collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and American paintings.     UPI/Brian Kersey

      4.67

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      The Tribune Tower stands on Michigan Avenue in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The neo-Gothic building completed in 1925 is headquarters for the Chicago Tribune Company.     UPI/Brian Kersey

      4.63

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      Pedestrian walk by the Sullivan Center, formerly known as the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, on March 31, 2011. Designed by architect Louis Sullivan and built in 1899, the building has been a Chicago Landmark since 1975. Target Corp. recently announced that it is planning to open a retail store in the location.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Jay Pritzker Pavilion, a bandshell designed by architect Frank Gehry , is featured in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The pavilion has 4,000 fixed seats, plus additional lawn seating for 7,000.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The IBM Building (C), designed architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe stands between Marina Towers (L) and the Trump Tower along the Chicago River on March 31, 2011 in Chicago.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      One Prudential Plaza (L) stands with Two Prudential Plaza on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Willis Tower stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Formerly named the Sears Tower, the structure was the world's tallest building from its construction in 1974 until 1998.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      Boeing lettering is engraved at the base of the Boeing Building, international headquarters for the Boeing Company, in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Boeing moved its corporate headquarters to Chicago from Seattle in 2001.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Boeing logo hangs from the Boeing Building, international headquarters for the Boeing Company, in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Boeing moved its corporate headquarters to Chicago from Seattle in 2001.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      The Wrigley Building (L) and the Tribune Tower stand in Chicago on March 31, 2011.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      One Prudential Plaza (L-R) stands with Two Prudential Plaza and the Aon Center on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      One Prudential Plaza (L) stands with Two Prudential Plaza on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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      Marina Towers stand along the Chicago River on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Marina City complex was designed in 1959 by architect Bertrand Goldberg and completed in 1964 and was billed as a city within a city, featuring numerous on-site facilities including a theatre, gym, swimming pool, ice rink, bowling alley, several stores and restaurants, and a marina.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Jay Pritzker Pavilion, a bandshell designed by architect Frank Gehry , is featured in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The pavilion has 4,000 fixed seats, plus additional lawn seating for 7,000.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The newly-constructed Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago stands on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Modern Wing is home to the museum's collection of early 20th-century European art as well as contemporary art from after 1960, new photography, video media, architecture and design galleries, temporary exhibition space, shops, classrooms, a cafe and a restaurant.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The newly-constructed Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago stands on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Modern Wing is home to the museum's collection of early 20th-century European art as well as contemporary art from after 1960, new photography, video media, architecture and design galleries, temporary exhibition space, shops, classrooms, a cafe and a restaurant.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • One Prudential Plaza (L-R) stands with Two Prudential Plaza and the Aon Center on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • A bust of former Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director and conductor Sir George Solti is displayed in Grant Park as a banner advertising current CSO music director Riccardo Muti hangs from Symphony Center in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Muti has missed much of his first year as CSO music director due to health problems.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Smurfit-Stone Building stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Smurfit-Stone Building (L) along with the Trump Tower stand in Chicago on March 31, 2011.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • One Prudential Plaza (L-R) stands with Two Prudential Plaza, the John Handcock Center and the Aon Center on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • One Prudential Plaza (L) stands with Two Prudential Plaza on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • One Prudential Plaza (L) stands with Two Prudential Plaza on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • One Prudential Plaza (L) stands with Two Prudential Plaza on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The CNA Center stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The building, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and completed in 1972, houses the corporate headquarters of CNA Financial Corporation.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The CNA Center stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The building, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and completed in 1972, houses the corporate headquarters of CNA Financial Corporation.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The CNA Center stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The building, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and completed in 1972, houses the corporate headquarters of CNA Financial Corporation.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Willis Tower stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Formerly named the Sears Tower, the structure was the world's tallest building from its construction in 1974 until 1998.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • A crowd waits for the Art Institute of Chicago to open on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. At its current location since 1893 and housing over 260,000 works, the museum is most famous for its collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and American paintings.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • A large poster of Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti hangs from Symphony Center on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. Originally named Theodore Thomas Orchestra Hall when constructed in 1904, the complex is home to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Sinfonietta.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Auditorium Building housing the Auditorium Theatre and Roosevelt University stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The Building, completed in 1889, is one of the most well-known designs of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • An anti-abortion billboard depicting U.S. President Barack Obama hangs on the side of a building on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. Life Always, the group behind the controversial "Dangerous Place" billboard in New York City, plans up to 30-plus billboards in South Side neighborhoods.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • Cars drive by the Sullivan Center, formerly known as the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, on March 31, 2011. Designed by architect Louis Sullivan and built in 1899, the building has been a Chicago Landmark since 1975. Target Corp. recently announced that it is planning to open a retail store in the location.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • Pedestrian walk by the Sullivan Center, formerly known as the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, on March 31, 2011. Designed by architect Louis Sullivan and built in 1899, the building has been a Chicago Landmark since 1975. Target Corp. recently announced that it is planning to open a retail store in the location.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • Cars drive by the Sullivan Center, formerly known as the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, on March 31, 2011. Designed by architect Louis Sullivan and built in 1899, the building has been a Chicago Landmark since 1975. Target Corp. recently announced that it is planning to open a retail store in the location.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • Chicago City Hall stands at the end of Richard J. Daley Plaza in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The building houses the government offices of the City of Chicago as well as many offices of Cook County government.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • Boeing lettering is engraved at the base of the Boeing Building, international headquarters for the Boeing Company, in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Boeing moved its corporate headquarters to Chicago from Seattle in 2001.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Boeing logo hangs from the Boeing Building, international headquarters for the Boeing Company, in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Boeing moved its corporate headquarters to Chicago from Seattle in 2001.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Boeing Building, international headquarters for the Boeing Company, stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Boeing moved its corporate headquarters to Chicago from Seattle in 2001.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Boeing logo hangs from the Boeing Building, international headquarters for the Boeing Company, in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Boeing moved its corporate headquarters to Chicago from Seattle in 2001.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Merchandise Mart stands along the Chicago River on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The building was the largest building in the world with 4,000,000 square feet of floor space when it opened in 1930.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Merchandise Mart stands along the Chicago River on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The building was the largest building in the world with 4,000,000 square feet of floor space when it opened in 1930.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The IBM Building (C), designed architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe stands between Marina Towers (L) and the Trump Tower along the Chicago River on March 31, 2011 in Chicago.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • Marina Towers stand along the Chicago River on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Marina City complex was designed in 1959 by architect Bertrand Goldberg and completed in 1964 and was billed as a city within a city, featuring numerous on-site facilities including a theatre, gym, swimming pool, ice rink, bowling alley, several stores and restaurants, and a marina.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Seventeen Church of Christ, Scientist stands on Wacker Drive in Chicago on March 31, 2011.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Wrigley Building (L) and the Tribune Tower stand in Chicago on March 31, 2011.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Trump Tower (R-L), the United Building, the Leo Burnett Building the Unitrin Building and 35 East Wacker Drive stand along the Chicago River on March 31, 2011 in Chicago.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Tribune logo hangs from the Chicago Tribune Company headquarters in Chicago on March 31, 2011.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Tribune Tower stands on Michigan Avenue in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The neo-Gothic building completed in 1925 is headquarters for the Chicago Tribune Company.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Trump International Hotel and Tower (L) and the Wrigley Building  share the skyline on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The building consists of two towers, completed in 1921 and 1924 and houses the headquarters of the William Wrigley Jr. Company.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • A pedestrian crosses the Michigan Avenue bridge as the Wrigley Building stands in the background on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The building consists of two towers, completed in 1921 and 1924 and houses the headquarters of the William Wrigley Jr. Company.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • Cars drive on Wacker Drive past the Trump International Hotel and Tower on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Trump Tower opened in 2008 as a mixed hotel-residential and is the second-tallest building in the United States.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Mather Tower, a Neo-Gothic, terra cotta-clad high-rise structure stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The building, completed in 1928 currently houses two hotels and was designated a Chicago landmark in 2001.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • A sign identifies the Aon Center in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The Aon Center serves as the corporate headquarters for Aon Corp., the world's second largest insurance brokerage, and largest reinsurance brokerage.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Trump International Hotel and Tower (L) and the Carbon and Carbide building are seen from Michigan Avenue on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. Originally built as a high-rise office tower in 1929, the Carbon and Carbide building is an example of Art Deco architecture designed by Daniel and Hubert Burnham, sons of architect Daniel Burnham, and has been home to the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago since 2004. The Trump Tower opened in 2008 as a mixed hotel-residential and is the second-tallest building in the United States.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • People look at their reflections in Cloud Gate, a sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The sculpture, commonly know as "The Bean" is one of the park's most popular features.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • Cloud Gate, a sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, is featured in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The sculpture, commonly know as "The Bean" is one of the park's most popular features.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • One Prudential Plaza (L) stands with Two Prudential Plaza on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • One and Two Prudential Plaza (L-R), the Aon Center, the Aqua Tower and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower are seen from East Randolph Street in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The Obama 2012 campaign headquarters are located in One Prudential Plaza and the Aon Center serves as the corporate headquarters for Aon Corp., the world's second largest insurance brokerage, and largest reinsurance brokerage.      UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Jay Pritzker Pavilion, a bandshell designed by architect Frank Gehry , is featured in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The pavilion has 4,000 fixed seats, plus additional lawn seating for 7,000.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Jay Pritzker Pavilion, a bandshell designed by architect Frank Gehry , is featured in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The pavilion has 4,000 fixed seats, plus additional lawn seating for 7,000.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • The Jay Pritzker Pavilion, a bandshell designed by architect Frank Gehry, is featured in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The pavilion has 4,000 fixed seats, plus additional lawn seating for 7,000.     UPI/Brian Kersey

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  • People cross the BP Pedestrian Bridge, a girder footbridge over Columbus Drive that connects Millennium Park with Daley Bicentennial Plaza, in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The bridge along with the Jay Pritzker Pavillion were designed by architect Frank Gehry.    UPI/Brian Kersey

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The newly-constructed Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago stands on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Modern Wing is home to the museum's collection of early 20th-century European art as well as contemporary art from after 1960, new photography, video media, architecture and design galleries, temporary exhibition space, shops, classrooms, a cafe and a restaurant.     UPI/Brian KerseyThe newly-constructed Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago stands on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Modern Wing is home to the museum's collection of early 20th-century European art as well as contemporary art from after 1960, new photography, video media, architecture and design galleries, temporary exhibition space, shops, classrooms, a cafe and a restaurant.     UPI/Brian KerseyOne Prudential Plaza (L-R) stands with Two Prudential Plaza and the Aon Center on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian KerseyA bust of former Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director and conductor Sir George Solti is displayed in Grant Park as a banner advertising current CSO music director Riccardo Muti hangs from Symphony Center in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Muti has missed much of his first year as CSO music director due to health problems.     UPI/Brian KerseyThe Smurfit-Stone Building stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011.      UPI/Brian KerseyThe Smurfit-Stone Building (L) along with the Trump Tower stand in Chicago on March 31, 2011.      UPI/Brian KerseyOne Prudential Plaza (L-R) stands with Two Prudential Plaza, the John Handcock Center and the Aon Center on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian KerseyOne Prudential Plaza (L) stands with Two Prudential Plaza on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian KerseyOne Prudential Plaza (L) stands with Two Prudential Plaza on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian KerseyOne Prudential Plaza (L) stands with Two Prudential Plaza on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian KerseyThe CNA Center stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The building, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and completed in 1972, houses the corporate headquarters of CNA Financial Corporation.      UPI/Brian KerseyThe CNA Center stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The building, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and completed in 1972, houses the corporate headquarters of CNA Financial Corporation.      UPI/Brian KerseyThe CNA Center stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The building, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and completed in 1972, houses the corporate headquarters of CNA Financial Corporation.      UPI/Brian KerseyThe Willis Tower stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Formerly named the Sears Tower, the structure was the world's tallest building from its construction in 1974 until 1998.     UPI/Brian KerseyA crowd waits for the Art Institute of Chicago to open on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. At its current location since 1893 and housing over 260,000 works, the museum is most famous for its collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and American paintings.     UPI/Brian KerseyA large poster of Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti hangs from Symphony Center on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. Originally named Theodore Thomas Orchestra Hall when constructed in 1904, the complex is home to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Sinfonietta.     UPI/Brian KerseyThe Auditorium Building housing the Auditorium Theatre and Roosevelt University stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The Building, completed in 1889, is one of the most well-known designs of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975.     UPI/Brian KerseyAn anti-abortion billboard depicting U.S. President Barack Obama hangs on the side of a building on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. Life Always, the group behind the controversial "Dangerous Place" billboard in New York City, plans up to 30-plus billboards in South Side neighborhoods.     UPI/Brian KerseyCars drive by the Sullivan Center, formerly known as the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, on March 31, 2011. Designed by architect Louis Sullivan and built in 1899, the building has been a Chicago Landmark since 1975. Target Corp. recently announced that it is planning to open a retail store in the location.     UPI/Brian KerseyPedestrian walk by the Sullivan Center, formerly known as the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, on March 31, 2011. Designed by architect Louis Sullivan and built in 1899, the building has been a Chicago Landmark since 1975. Target Corp. recently announced that it is planning to open a retail store in the location.     UPI/Brian KerseyCars drive by the Sullivan Center, formerly known as the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, on March 31, 2011. Designed by architect Louis Sullivan and built in 1899, the building has been a Chicago Landmark since 1975. Target Corp. recently announced that it is planning to open a retail store in the location.     UPI/Brian KerseyChicago City Hall stands at the end of Richard J. Daley Plaza in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The building houses the government offices of the City of Chicago as well as many offices of Cook County government.     UPI/Brian KerseyBoeing lettering is engraved at the base of the Boeing Building, international headquarters for the Boeing Company, in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Boeing moved its corporate headquarters to Chicago from Seattle in 2001.     UPI/Brian KerseyThe Boeing logo hangs from the Boeing Building, international headquarters for the Boeing Company, in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Boeing moved its corporate headquarters to Chicago from Seattle in 2001.     UPI/Brian KerseyThe Boeing Building, international headquarters for the Boeing Company, stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Boeing moved its corporate headquarters to Chicago from Seattle in 2001.     UPI/Brian KerseyThe Boeing logo hangs from the Boeing Building, international headquarters for the Boeing Company, in Chicago on March 31, 2011. Boeing moved its corporate headquarters to Chicago from Seattle in 2001.     UPI/Brian KerseyThe Merchandise Mart stands along the Chicago River on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The building was the largest building in the world with 4,000,000 square feet of floor space when it opened in 1930.      UPI/Brian KerseyThe Merchandise Mart stands along the Chicago River on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The building was the largest building in the world with 4,000,000 square feet of floor space when it opened in 1930.      UPI/Brian KerseyThe IBM Building (C), designed architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe stands between Marina Towers (L) and the Trump Tower along the Chicago River on March 31, 2011 in Chicago.     UPI/Brian KerseyMarina Towers stand along the Chicago River on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Marina City complex was designed in 1959 by architect Bertrand Goldberg and completed in 1964 and was billed as a city within a city, featuring numerous on-site facilities including a theatre, gym, swimming pool, ice rink, bowling alley, several stores and restaurants, and a marina.     UPI/Brian KerseyThe Seventeen Church of Christ, Scientist stands on Wacker Drive in Chicago on March 31, 2011.     UPI/Brian KerseyThe Wrigley Building (L) and the Tribune Tower stand in Chicago on March 31, 2011.     UPI/Brian KerseyThe Trump Tower (R-L), the United Building, the Leo Burnett Building the Unitrin Building and 35 East Wacker Drive stand along the Chicago River on March 31, 2011 in Chicago.     UPI/Brian KerseyThe Tribune logo hangs from the Chicago Tribune Company headquarters in Chicago on March 31, 2011.      UPI/Brian KerseyThe Tribune Tower stands on Michigan Avenue in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The neo-Gothic building completed in 1925 is headquarters for the Chicago Tribune Company.     UPI/Brian KerseyThe Trump International Hotel and Tower (L) and the Wrigley Building  share the skyline on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The building consists of two towers, completed in 1921 and 1924 and houses the headquarters of the William Wrigley Jr. Company.     UPI/Brian KerseyA pedestrian crosses the Michigan Avenue bridge as the Wrigley Building stands in the background on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The building consists of two towers, completed in 1921 and 1924 and houses the headquarters of the William Wrigley Jr. Company.     UPI/Brian KerseyCars drive on Wacker Drive past the Trump International Hotel and Tower on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Trump Tower opened in 2008 as a mixed hotel-residential and is the second-tallest building in the United States.     UPI/Brian KerseyThe Mather Tower, a Neo-Gothic, terra cotta-clad high-rise structure stands in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The building, completed in 1928 currently houses two hotels and was designated a Chicago landmark in 2001.     UPI/Brian KerseyA sign identifies the Aon Center in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The Aon Center serves as the corporate headquarters for Aon Corp., the world's second largest insurance brokerage, and largest reinsurance brokerage.      UPI/Brian KerseyThe Trump International Hotel and Tower (L) and the Carbon and Carbide building are seen from Michigan Avenue on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. Originally built as a high-rise office tower in 1929, the Carbon and Carbide building is an example of Art Deco architecture designed by Daniel and Hubert Burnham, sons of architect Daniel Burnham, and has been home to the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago since 2004. The Trump Tower opened in 2008 as a mixed hotel-residential and is the second-tallest building in the United States.     UPI/Brian KerseyPeople look at their reflections in Cloud Gate, a sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The sculpture, commonly know as "The Bean" is one of the park's most popular features.     UPI/Brian KerseyCloud Gate, a sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, is featured in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The sculpture, commonly know as "The Bean" is one of the park's most popular features.     UPI/Brian KerseyOne Prudential Plaza (L) stands with Two Prudential Plaza on March 31, 2011 in Chicago. The Obama 2012 campaign has recently chosen One Prudential Plaza to serve as its campaign headquarters.     UPI/Brian KerseyOne and Two Prudential Plaza (L-R), the Aon Center, the Aqua Tower and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower are seen from East Randolph Street in Chicago on March 31, 2011. The Obama 2012 campaign headquarters are located in One Prudential Plaza and the Aon Center serves as the corporate headquarters for Aon Corp., the world's second largest insurance brokerage, and largest reinsurance brokerage.      UPI/Brian KerseyThe Jay Pritzker Pavilion, a bandshell designed by architect Frank Gehry , is featured in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The pavilion has 4,000 fixed seats, plus additional lawn seating for 7,000.     UPI/Brian KerseyThe Jay Pritzker Pavilion, a bandshell designed by architect Frank Gehry , is featured in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The pavilion has 4,000 fixed seats, plus additional lawn seating for 7,000.     UPI/Brian KerseyThe Jay Pritzker Pavilion, a bandshell designed by architect Frank Gehry, is featured in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The pavilion has 4,000 fixed seats, plus additional lawn seating for 7,000.     UPI/Brian KerseyPeople cross the BP Pedestrian Bridge, a girder footbridge over Columbus Drive that connects Millennium Park with Daley Bicentennial Plaza, in Millennium Park in Chicago on March 31, 2011.  The bridge along with the Jay Pritzker Pavillion were designed by architect Frank Gehry.    UPI/Brian Kersey