Marina City is a mixed-use residential-commercial building complex in Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America, designed by architect Bertrand Goldberg.

The four buildings, access driveways, and a small plaza that originally included an ice rink are built on a raised platform next to the Chicago River.

[4] The Marina City complex was designed in 1959 by architect Bertrand Goldberg and constructed between 1961 and 1968 at a cost of $36 million, financed to a large extent by Building Service Employees International Union, a union of building janitors and elevator operators, who sought to reverse the pattern of white flight from the city's downtown area.

[citation needed] Marina City was the first building in the United States to be constructed with the Linden climbing tower cranes.

[citation needed] Local radio station WCFL operated out of Marina City in the office building of the complex.

[citation needed] Local television station WFLD (FOX Channel 32) had its studios and transmitter at Marina City for 18 years until they were bought by Metromedia.

The buildings are accessed from separate lobbies that share a common below-grade mezzanine level as well as ground-level plaza entrances beside the House of Blues.

The apartments are not provided with hot water, air conditioning, or heat from a central source, as was the common practice at the time the towers were built.

They have claimed that any commercial use (such as in film or other media, such as on web sites) of pictures of the buildings or of the name "Marina City" without permission is a violation of their intellectual property rights.

[citation needed] The House of Blues concert hall was built in the shell of the complex's long-disused movie theater.