Official name: Cook County Administration Building Formerly: The Brunswick Building Built: 1962-1964 Designed by: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Type: Skyscraper Stories: 35 Maximum Height: 476 feet / 145 meters Location: 69 West Washington Street, Chicago, United States
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» 17 October, 2003 - Fire breaks out on the 12th floor of this building. Six people die in a smoke-filled stairwell a few floors above the blaze.
» 26 November, 2003 - Both the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times report an investigation into the deadly blaze shows that firefighters did not take control of the building's public address system, and did not perform adequate searches of the stairwells.
