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James R. Thompson Center

The James R. Thompson Center (being redeveloped as the Thompson Center and originally the State of Illinois Center) is a postmodern-style building at 100 W. Randolph Street in the Loop district of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Designed by architect Helmut Jahn around a post-modernist rotunda, it was built to house offices of the Illinois state government in Chicago. The building occupies an entire block bounded…

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1985

Chicago, Chicago, United States

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