
Chicago’s Jailhouse Skyscraper
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Chicago's New Favorite Building
jack hartray was the project manager on the campbell correction center, which most people know as the metropolitan correctional center. It's where you stay when you're waiting to go up on trial in the federal court house, which is like two blocks away. Even if a building is designed by a prominent architect, by this guy, harry wees, who made the d c matro, he's a big deal. Andeven if that building has only three sides, it's like a triangle from above, like a grilled cheese sandwich cut in half diagonall, and has these irregularly placed, long, vertical window slits, just like a punch cart or a scantron
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