# Chicago | The Mile High (The Illinois) | 5280 ft | 528 FLOORS **URL:** \ **Category:** Visions\ **Created:** [August 8, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/chicago-the-mile-high-the-illinois-5280-ft-528-floors/3804 "2017-08-08T22:12:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kevin\_Dyer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/kevin_dyer/32/15425_2.png) [@Kevin\_Dyer](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Kevin_Dyer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/chicago-the-mile-high-the-illinois-5280-ft-528-floors/3804/1 "2017-08-08T22:12:14Z")
Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision for a Supertall skyscraper that would be been over 1 mile high, if built today it would be twice the size of the Burj Khalifa. [Picture I took at the MOMA of an original rendition] ![20170806_164701](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/b/e/be6e5b4cd438e1385c5abea9e507d53130ca604f.jpg) ![20170806_164835](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/a/6/a6404362aa1ba4842f902c4f783945685a4481c0.jpg) Wright envisioned this behemoth to be built in Chicago, Illinois and have parking enough for 15,000 cars and 100 helicopters. ---
**Author:** ![YIMHudson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/yimhudson/32/2304_2.png) [@YIMHudson](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/YIMHudson)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 10:17pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/chicago-the-mile-high-the-illinois-5280-ft-528-floors/3804/2 "2017-08-08T22:17:11Z")
something like this built (even on a smaller scale) before commercial air travel became so huge would have had a huge impact on how tall we build in the USA today. I would imagine the original WTC would probably have been made a single massive tower because the “human scale” would have been raised quite significantly.