The New York Life Insurance Building is a 14 story building at 39 South LaSalle Street in 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

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

. It was designed by William Le Baron Jenney

William Le Baron Jenney

William Le Baron Jenney was an American architect and engineer who became known as the Father of the American skyscraper.- Life and career :...

 and completed in 1894. In 2002, the building was given a preliminary landmark status.

Future

Preservation Chicago has considered the building one of Chicago's most threatened in 2006. In June of that year a company submitted an application to the Chicago Plan Commission including plans to renovate the structure and build 29 South LaSalle

29 South LaSalle

29 South LaSalle is a proposed 51 story skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois designed by Lucien Lagrange Architects. It would stand at 870 feet . This project would include a "renovation", and facdectomy of the adjacent New York Life Insurance Building....

, an adjacent 51 story office building.