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875 North Michigan Avenue
is a
skyscraper
in
Chicago
,
United States
. It was formerly known as the
John Hancock Center
. It is 344 meters (1,127 feet) tall and has 100 floors, including an observation deck on the 94th floor (1,000 ft).
[1]
It was built in
1969
and is one of the
tallest buildings in the world
.
On February 12, 2018, John Hancock Insurance requested that its name and logos throughout the building's interior be removed immediately; John Hancock had not had a naming-rights deal with the skyscraper's owners since 2013. Until a new naming-rights deal is finalized, the skyscraper will be known as "875 North Michigan Avenue".
[2]
From the 95th-floor restaurant, diners can look out at Chicago and
Lake Michigan
. It has an observatory floor known as 360 Chicago.
[3]
360 Chicago is home to TILT, a moving platform that leans visitors over the edge of the skyscraper to a 30-degree angle.
[4]
It also has a full bar,
[5]
and Chicago's only open-air Sky Walk, and also has free interactive high-definition touchscreens in six languages.
[6]
The 44th-floor
sky lobby
features the highest indoor swimming pool in the
United States
.
[7]
On its 44th floor, the building has a 5,200 square feet (480 m
2
)
grocery store
accessible only to apartment residents and office tenants.
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