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Question of the day
Thursday, Feb 2, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller * Gov. Rauner is at a Daily Herald editorial board meeting today…
As Oswego Willy would say, that quote is “restaurant quality.” I laughed out loud. * The Question: Your own description of the Thompson Center?
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- BIG R. Ph. - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 1:53 pm:
Corn Bin
- Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 1:55 pm:
The Mistake on Lake
- Helmut Head - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 1:56 pm:
A waste of space.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 1:57 pm:
A Glass Case of Emotion
- A Jack - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 1:57 pm:
A transparent building for a non-transparent government.
- stateandlake - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 1:58 pm:
Only building where a promotional event in the food court can disrupt operations on every single floor. Proof that not only does heat rise, so does sound.
- Allen D - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:00 pm:
A relic from a “B” movie script.
- Southside Markie - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:00 pm:
Nothing in the building is restaurant quality, especially, the food court.
- stateandlake - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:00 pm:
Lava lamp
- Anonymous - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:00 pm:
A great place for a medical marijuana growing facility and centrally located for downtown “patients.” No need for a separate dispensary locale.
- W Flag - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:01 pm:
A futuristic “Logan’s Run” pile in need of a day long Windex rain.
I seriously hate this ugly building despite the fact that it was one of the last buildings that my late father worked on before his retirement. He worked on the elevators and constantly pointed out how the showy design of the building was totally impractical and doomed not to age well. Dad knew that the glass enclosed elevators would show dust and dirt over time (not unusual, but in conventional elevator banks, the dust and grime is not visible to passengers). He also foresaw the snow and ice cascading off the roof and on to pedestrians. He thought that the atrium and fountains were foolish too.
- Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:03 pm:
–A Glass Case of Emotion–
No Motion?
- A Jack - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:03 pm:
A parody for an Illinois grain-bin.
- Well then - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:03 pm:
Landlocked Titanic
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:04 pm:
That line by the Governor is indeed “restaurant quality”.
It’s so good, it will stick. He should just start calling the building the “terrarium on Randolph”.
Great stuff.
Tough to top the Governor here.
- Pangloss - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:05 pm:
Snow Globe of Bureaucracy
- old pol - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:06 pm:
A Glass House - where lots of stones are thrown.
- Citystates - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:07 pm:
panopticon
- Anon - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:07 pm:
The shootout scene from “Running Scared” - when you close down the building, Governor, it’s time for a sequel.
- Linus - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:09 pm:
world’s largest (and most dysfunctional) snow globe
- Linus - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:09 pm:
(good one, Pangloss!)
- Downstate Illinois - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:11 pm:
Greenhouse Gas Plant
- A guy - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:14 pm:
Greenhouse full of gas.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:16 pm:
To play off - old pol -
A Homage to the Stone Throwers…
- Cheswick - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:17 pm:
A victim of bad management.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:19 pm:
“Sometimes there’s just not enough rocks” - Forrest Gump.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:19 pm:
“In case of emergency, break glass”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:22 pm:
WTTW
Windows To The Wonks
- DuPage Bard - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:22 pm:
Billy Crystal Gregory Hines baby Running Scared
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opseGWIdLd4
- Mokenavince - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:23 pm:
A dump that doesn’t sell furniture.
- It's All About Me - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:24 pm:
The Willis Tower laid an egg
- Chicago Cynic - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:27 pm:
Dump.
Pile of crap.
Embarrassment.
- A Jack - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:29 pm:
Compensation for small hands? No wait, that would be Trump’s Chicago tower.
- illinoised - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:30 pm:
Pretty ain’t practical.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:31 pm:
P.S. I hated any and all time I ever spent in that building.
- PlayK8 - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:31 pm:
Greenhouse of Gasses
- siriusly - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:31 pm:
Opaque - it’s not exactly transparent - but sometimes you can see what’s going on in there.
I agree with Governor Rauner on this one!
- Hehe - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:32 pm:
The spaceship from E.T.
- Grand Avenue - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:33 pm:
A food court
- Jake From Elwood - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:33 pm:
Helmut-less architecture
- The Way I See It - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:38 pm:
It is a cool building to look at, but is such an amazingly inefficient use of space.
Not much that I agree with the governor about, but, yes, that is a lot better sold to private developers. Maybe get a long term low rate lease for 8 floors or so and left someone else put a 50 story building in on the block. Now that’s some job creatin’
- Anonymous - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:38 pm:
Ozone suing Thompson Center
- IllinoisBoi - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:47 pm:
The glass beehive (populated by drones only)
- Anon - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:50 pm:
Future casino
- A guy - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:50 pm:
World’s biggest votive candle.
- A Jack - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:52 pm:
Illinois’ contribution to the Chicago Theater District.
Just blocked from the Paramont is the Thompson Center. Now on a two year run is the tragic-comedy called “The Budget.” Even more wicked than “Wicked,” it is guaranteed to leave you in tears.
- Grandpa - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:54 pm:
The most expensive waste of space in Illinois (outside of the House)
- JackD - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:57 pm:
Viewed from the Daley Center, attorneys generally describe it as a huge toilet.
- PlayK8 - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 2:58 pm:
The Glass Suppository
- Rabid - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 3:00 pm:
Thompson’s glass bowl
- Porgy Tirebiter - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 3:06 pm:
The squirrel cage.
- A guy - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 3:06 pm:
Flea circus.
- Anon III - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 3:08 pm:
TUB (Thompson’s ugly building)(inverted)
- Rabid - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 3:12 pm:
Glass ceiling
- Julian's Melange - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 3:19 pm:
Legacy of the “Bilk Illinois” era. Appropriately named for the bilker-in-chief……bloated and gas-filled.
- Louis G. Atsaves - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 3:20 pm:
Filthy Fish Bowl with loudspeakers.
- zatoichi - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 3:30 pm:
half a buiding
- Cheryl44 - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 3:34 pm:
If they’d built it to the specs in the Jahn’s plans and then done some upkeep, the only real complaints would be the noise. And the color scheme. And how tempting it is for jumpers…
- Anonymous - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 4:00 pm:
Where else can we leap to our deaths and try to hit the center of the State seal on the bottom floor????????????
- Anonymous - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 4:07 pm:
Pain in the Glaaa
The Unlucky Horseshoe
- Springfieldish - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 4:07 pm:
Bruegel’s Tower of Babel.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 4:07 pm:
Should be Glass oops.
- Veil of Ignorance - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 4:31 pm:
Acrophobiadome!
- AlfondoGonz - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 4:42 pm:
A boil.
- 37B - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 5:06 pm:
With a nod toward Helmut Jahn, my late architect friend Vic called it “another magnificent failure.”
- Arthur Andersen - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 8:19 pm:
Helmut’s Helmet
- XDNR - Thursday, Feb 2, 17 @ 10:01 pm:
Thunder Dome
- Rabid - Friday, Feb 3, 17 @ 8:35 am:
Dysfunctional opera house
- Rabid - Friday, Feb 3, 17 @ 8:38 am:
Unwashed bar glass