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The Wrigley Building is a skyscraper located at 400–410 North Michigan Avenue on Chicago's Near North Side. It is located on the Magnificent Mile directly across Michigan Avenue from the Tribune Tower. Its two towers in an elaborate style were built between 1920 and 1924 to house the corporate headquarters of the Wrigley Company.
The company was founded on April 1, 1891, in Chicago, Illinois by William Wrigley Jr. Wrigley's gum was traditionally made out of chicle, sourced largely from Central America. In 1952, in response to Decree 900 , land reforms attempting to end feudal working conditions for peasant farmers in Guatemala , Wrigley's discontinued purchasing chicle ...
Wrigley Jr. was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2000. [13] His great-grandson, William Wrigley Jr. II, was the executive chairman and CEO of the Wrigley Company from 1999 until 2006, when he turned it over to William Perez, the first non-Wrigley head of the company. [14] [15]
A building is not, of course, a living thing. Unless it is the place you live or work or visit with some regularity, you likely take most of the city’s thousands of buildings for granted. Of ...
The Dairy Farm Products Company opened its plant in the building on October 17, 1912, manufacturing butter. [12] In 1916, the building was sold to William Wrigley Jr. for approximately $125,000. [13] [14] The building would house the factory and offices of the Downey-Farrell Company, a margarine manufacturer that Wrigley was affiliated with.
Wrigley Building, the former headquarters of the Wrigley Company. Google's Chicago offices are in the Dearborn Plaza building. [12] Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways have offices in the John Hancock Center. [13] [14] The Wrigley Company had its headquarters in the Wrigley Building before moving to Goose Island, also within the community area, in ...
Wrigley Company officials, including William Wrigley, Jr. II, wanted to contribute to Millennium Park, and the historic aspect of the peristyle was attractive to them partly because the original peristyle was constructed around the same time as the Wrigley Building, the corporate headquarters located a few blocks to the north, and because the ...
Mars Wrigley is closing a nearly century-old chocolate plant on Chicago’s West Side once hailed as the most beautiful candy factory in America. Built in a Spanish-style architecture in 1928, the ...