Setting the tower crane base, bright and early this morning.
It was an inadvertent Tower Crane Tuesday post. And here we are on Thursday, and it’s already obsolete. But in the good way. For no longer are there six tower crane permits awaiting actual tower cranes. No, my friends, now there are five.
625 West Adams trucked in the base of its new tower crane yesterday, and wasted no time this morning rooting it into the ground. It’s one of those pretty yellow ones, too. And it will be right outside my window. Thank you, Power Construction. You know the way to my heart.
Please let me know if there’s an angle of this crane you’d like to see that I haven’t included below…
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- It was still sitting on the truck during last night’s storm.
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- But it made it through unscathed.
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- Final preps on the foundation…
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- …as the base was being offloaded.
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- And there it stands, along South Desplaines Street.
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- Tower crane crew doing what they do.
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- Proof that I stayed behind the fence.
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- There’s more foundation work happening besides just the tower crane.
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- Old St. Pat’s in the background. 625 West Adams is often referred to as “St. Pat’s Tower.”
Building Up Chicago 