The Donald Aims Higher in Chicago

I like height, explains developer Trump -- and so, apparently, do the buyers lining up to live in the world's tallest residential building

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March 17, 2005 at 5:00 AM UTC

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Who's afraid of high living? Not Donald Trump -- or at least, not anymore. The real estate tycoon/TV personality just signed off on his final plans for Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago, a condominium/hotel complex that will soar 1,360 feet and rank second to Chicago's Sears Tower as the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.

Never known for subtlety, Trump originally had planned a 150-story tower that, at up to 2,000 feet high, would have been the world's tallest. But within weeks of September 11, he halved the building to 78 stories and 1,073 feet, recognizing that few people would want a home in what might become a target for another terrorist attack.