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I heard something about executive dining rooms being somewhere close to the fire. But I didn't catch it very well.

Here's an update. Woman on 30th floor ended up having to walk to 35th floor. Told (don't know by whom) to go into conference room and put wet clothing in front of floor. They were led to safety by firefighters. One woman in the group was pregnant, several were in the conference room.

Have they said what businesses are in the building?

135 S. LaSalle is the LaSalle Bank HQ.

From the LaSalle Bank website:

LaSalle Bank is headquartered in Chicago and has $62.8 billion in assets and $36.4 billion in deposits. One of the largest banks in the Midwest and second largest in Chicago, LaSalle Bank serves individuals, small businesses, middle market companies and institutions with streamlined solutions to meet the scope of customers' financial needs. LaSalle has more than 140 retail locations and 500 ATMs throughout Chicago and the neighboring suburbs. Online banking is offered through lasallebank.com.
LaSalle maintains commercial banking offices in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Denver, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Des Moines, Rockford and Peoria, Illinois, St. Louis, Tampa and Miami. Subsidiaries include LaSalle National Leasing Corporation, LaSalle Business Credit, LLC and ABN AMRO Financial Services, Inc.
Parent company, LaSalle Bank Corporation, is headquartered in Chicago with $106.6 billion in assets. LaSalle Bank Corporation is a subsidiary of Netherlands-based ABN AMRO Bank N.V., one of the world’s largest banks with total assets of EUR 632.8 billion with more than 3,000 locations in over 60 countries. Learn more about LaSalle Bank in our corporate profile and fact sheet.

I've heard banking of course, and real estate. I don't believe that there are any apartments. Build in 1934, last building built before the hiatus during the depression. Metal frame contstruction, was the PREMIER building in Chicago for many years. The next biggest building started in 1940, First ?Something? Building... In this pic, you can see the office on the farthest to the left is now starting to burn.

Fourty-five stories tall. There are also LAW firms in this building. A lawyer who has his offices there said they had to open the windows to get air into their area, around the 35th floor.