Look Ma, No Hands

The photo currently at the right is the south tower of the Wrigley Building. The clock, with no hands, is keeping time until the next championship at 1010 W. Addison.

The clock's face is nearly 20 feet in diameter. There's actually 4 faces, one on each side of the tower. The minute hands are a bit over nine feet long, the hour hands about six and a half feet long. They were originally redwood and have been redone in aluminum.

Wrigley's south tower is 30 stories tall; the north tower is 21 stories in height. The building has a quarter million glazed terra cotta tiles on its exterior. Each of the tiles is individually identified and tracked in a maintenance database.

When the Wrigley Building was begun, north Michigan Avenue was known as Pine Street. Wrigley was Chicago's first air conditioned office building.

Now you know.