Official Name: Cook County Administration Building Formerly: The Brunswick Building Designed by: Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill Construction Start: 1962 Construction Completed: 1964 Type: Skyscraper Stories: 35 Maximum Height: 476 feet / 145 meters (including spires, antennae, etc...) Location: 69 West Washington Street Area: The Loop Post Code: 60602 City: Chicago, Illinois
» 17 October, 2003 - Fire breaks out on the 12th floor of this building. Six people die in a smoke-filled stairwell a few floors above the blaze.
» 26 November, 2003 - Both the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times report an investigation into the deadly blaze shows that firefighters did not take control of the building's public address system, and did not perform adequate searches of the stairwells.