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7 unusual facts about John Hancock Center


Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Recent audio works include "800 000 Seconds In Harar" (Touch), "Matter Transfer" (iDeal), "The Wonderful World of Male Intuition" (Oral), "There Are No Crows Flying around the Hancock Building" (Lampo), "Rats", "Maggots" and "Bugs" (all three on Laton), "Three Overpopulated Cities ..." (Sub Rosa), "A Lecture on Disturbances in Architecture" (Firework Editions) and "Ström" and "Leech" (both on Raster-Noton).

Jerry Wolman

Wolman also initiated the development of the John Hancock Center, a 100-story skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, but withdrew from the project because of financial difficulties.

John Hancock Center

On November 11, 1981, Veterans Day, high-rise firefighting and rescue advocate Dan Goodwin, for the purpose of calling attention to the inability to rescue people trapped in the upper floors of skyscrapers, successfully climbed the building's exterior wall.

Fearing for Goodwin's life, Mayor Jane Byrne intervened and allowed him to continue to the top.

On April 16, 2009 at 6:00AM CDT, WYCC-TV transmitting off the John Hancock switched to all-digital broadcasting, becoming Chicago's first television station to stop broadcasting in an analog signal.

Mancow's Morning Madhouse

Originally, the show was a regular program on WRCX-FM (Rock 103.5) located in the John Hancock Center.

Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago

Respiratory Health Association's marquee event is Hustle Up the Hancock, a race up 94 floors of the John Hancock Center in Chicago to raise more than $1 million for respiratory disease research and programs.


Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Established in 1909, by the Society of Jesus, the Roman Catholic order of the Jesuits, the School of Law is located in downtown Chicago, within walking distance of the Water Tower (only surviving downtown building of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire), the John Hancock Center (one of the tallest buildings in the United States), Holy Name Cathedral and the Magnificent Mile of North Michigan Avenue.


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