The Trump
International Hotel and Tower is a skyscraper condo
hotel in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The building, named after
businessman and later U.S. president Donald
Trump, was designed by architect Adrian Smith of Skidmore,
Owings and Merrill. Bovis Lend Lease built the 98-story structure,
which reaches a height of 1,388 feet (423.2 m) including its spire, its
roof topping out at 1,171 feet (357 m). It is next to the main
branch of the Chicago River, with a view of the entry to Lake
Michigan beyond a series of bridges over the river. The building received
publicity when the winner of the first season of The Apprentice reality
television show, Bill Rancic, chose to manage the construction of the
tower over managing a new Trump
National Golf Course and resort in Los Angeles.
The building is across the Chicago River from
the Chicago Loop, the city's business district. It is a block away
from the southern end of the Magnificent Mile portion of Michigan
Avenue. The restaurant, Terrace 16, has a clear view of the Chicago River's
entrance to Lake Michigan and of the four buildings completed in the 1920s that
flank the Michigan Avenue Bridge (Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, 333
North Michigan, and 360 North Michigan).
