Illinois Center

[1] The earliest building is One Illinois Center designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1970.

The golf course has since been turned into a park, now surrounded by an urban village of high-rise buildings called Lakeshore East.

An additional structure, Boulevard Towers East an 80-story mixed-use building was planned on the west side of Stetson between South Water and Lake Street but was cancelled.

The site of this proposed building is the last remaining vacant lot in the Illinois Center complex, referred to by locals as the "Political Graveyard".

On February 18, 2009, a report in Crain's Chicago Business stated that a New York-based lender had filed a foreclosure suit against the developer, that the sale's center was closed and building units were no longer being marketed through the Multiple Listing Service.

buildings along the sides of a river in a panorama view
Chicago River is the south border (right) of the Near North Side and Streeterville and the north border (left) of Chicago Loop , Lakeshore East and Illinois Center (viewed from Lake Shore Drive 's Link Bridge with Trump International Hotel & Tower at jog in the river in the center)
The former Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal with 333 North Michigan , Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower in the background (April 1943)