Owners of Chicago’s second-tallest building say they are prepared
The Aon Center, the fourteenth-tallest building in the world is a prime target for terrorist according to a DHS spokesman; the owners of the building, however, believe they are prepared
Chicago’s Aon Center, with eighty-three stories above ground (and five below ground), is Chicago’s second-tallest building after the Sears Tower, and the fourteenth-tallest in the world. Jarrod Agen, spokesman for DHS in Washington, D.C., admits that Aon Center has all the makings of a terrorist target.
The tower has five banks of elevators, for fifty elevators in total. The building has fifteen retail stores in the lower lobby and an underground pedway system with direct links to the CTA and Metra lines, the Daley Center, City Hall, and the Fairmont Chicago hotel. The biggest tenant is Aon Corp., which takes up 515,083 square feet, or about 21 percent of the building. “We look at all those factors when evaluating risk,” Mr. Agen says.
You may be interested to know more about how the Aon Center prepares for a possible terrorist attack.
-read more in this Chicago Business report
