ABN AMRO Plaza is an office building located in the West Loop area of Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, Illinois

Illinois

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, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. ABN AMRO

ABN AMRO

ABN AMRO Bank N.V. is a Dutch state-owned bank with headquarters in Amsterdam. It was re-established, in its current form, in 2009 following the acquisition and break up of ABN AMRO Group by a banking consortium consisting of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Santander and Fortis...

, parent company of Chicago financial institution LaSalle Bank

LaSalle Bank

LaSalle Bank Corporation was the holding company for LaSalle Bank N.A. and LaSalle Bank Midwest N.A. . With $116 billion in assets, it was headquartered at 135 South LaSalle Street in Chicago, Illinois...

 owns and operates the building. To the east sits Citicorp Center

Citicorp Center (Chicago)

Citigroup Center is a 42 story, 588-foot skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. Located at 500 W. Madison , the structure was designed by the architecture firm Murphy/Jahn in a late modernist style...

 building and to the south, residential-complex of Presidential Towers. In the base of the building, there is a LaSalle Bank

LaSalle Bank

LaSalle Bank Corporation was the holding company for LaSalle Bank N.A. and LaSalle Bank Midwest N.A. . With $116 billion in assets, it was headquartered at 135 South LaSalle Street in Chicago, Illinois...

 branch, a Starbucks Coffee and an Au Bon Pain restaurant.

The building is anchored by West Madison Street, West Washington Street, North Jefferson Street and North Clinton streets. Upon its completion in 2003, the green colored building added style to the otherwise bare West Loop. The building has a total of 29 floors that span 453 feet. Cost are estimated to have been near $387 million dollars (US). It took approximately 3 years to erect. It goal was to comprise all office workers in Chicago from the five buildings the company occupied previous to the construction of the Plaza.

• The building is now owned by Bank of America
  Bank of America
  Bank of America Corporation, an American multinational banking and financial services corporation, is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets, and the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by market capitalization. The bank is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina...
  
  . Ownership was transferred when BofA purchased Chicago-based financial institution LaSalle Bank
  LaSalle Bank
  LaSalle Bank Corporation was the holding company for LaSalle Bank N.A. and LaSalle Bank Midwest N.A. . With $116 billion in assets, it was headquartered at 135 South LaSalle Street in Chicago, Illinois...
  
  from ABN Amro. The icon green and yellow shield was removed in the spring of 2008 from the building's top.