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Chicago is already home to the tallest building in the United States. Now, the city is reaching new heights. CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine looks at how a new project will make its mark on the city’s skyline. You’ll have to crane your neck quite a bit to see 2,000 feet up. That’s how tall the city’s newest skyscraper will be. The Fordham Spire would be built at 420 E. North Water Street in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood, looking downriver toward the Loop. The project is a residential and hotel tower. But the question remains as to whether it will...

Chicago skyscraper would be nation's tallest Tuesday, July 26, 2005; Posted: 12:34 p.m. EDT (16:34 GMT) CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A proposal to build a new 115-story building by 2009 could give Chicago claim to having the first and second tallest skyscrapers in the country. The 2,000-foot tower, proposed by Chicago developer Christopher Carley and designed by noted architect Santiago Calatrava, would go up along the city's lakefront near Navy Pier, northeast of the Loop. The 110-floor Sears Tower is currently the nation's tallest building. Carley's building, minus its spire, would be 1,458 feet high -- taller than the Sears...