Word: miglin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turned up in Chicago. Lee Miglin, 72, was one of that city's more respected and better-known developers. A coal miner's son turned real estate baron, he had been a major player in Chicago's late-1980s building boom and was a generous philanthropist. His wife Marilyn, 58, was a successful and well-known cosmetics executive. On the morning of May 4, she returned from a business trip to find Miglin missing from their three-story brick row house in Chicago's Gold Coast district. Police searched the couple's garage across an alleyway, and found a grisly...
...that title is about to be challenged by a planned $500 million tower only three blocks away from the current champ. Code-named Skyneedle, the 125-story building would soar to a height of nearly 2,000 ft. Rivals have criticized the proposal by developers Lee Miglin and Paul Beitler as too flashy and too skinny, with only one-third the floor space of the Sears Tower. But the Skyneedle builders hope to break ground in nine months and to finish...