September 23, 2011 – On his Chicago Tonight Ask Geoffrey segment Thursday evening, WTTW producer/host Geoffrey Baer answered a viewer’s question about Marina City. What’s the story behind the architecture of the theater building, now the home of House of Blues Chicago? Baer smoothly covered four decades of history in about four minutes.

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(Above) Video frame from across Dearborn Street shows House of Blues and surrounding Marina City complex in mid-2000s. Note the fence at lower right, next to a parking lot that is now the location of 353 North Clark, a 44-story office tower completed in 2009. (Click on image to view larger version.)