The Civic Opera Building is a 45-story office tower (plus two 22-story wings) located at 20 North Wacker Drive in Chicago.

"[1] Insull directed the chair should face west to signify turning his back on New York.

Insull selected the architecture firm Graham, Anderson, Probst & White who were responsible for several other buildings in the downtown Chicago Loop.

As they did on other occasions, the architects commissioned Henry Hering to produce architectural sculpture for the building.

[2] During the 1950s and 1960s the building was identified by a large "Kemper Insurance" sign, although it was not that company's headquarters.