In Popular Culture
- The building is featured in scenes of the 2005 film Batman Begins.
- The 2011 film Transformers: Dark of the Moon features a climax set atop the building, which is heavily damaged, along with most of Chicago, in the giant robot battle that ensues.
- In 2012, episode 2 of the first season of United States of America on the History Channel featured the building's historic elevator, made by Otis Elevator Company.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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