“It’s that equilibrium thing. The experience seems to have a lot more impact on people if you stop at 19 degrees for a few moments and then go on to the maximum. “We designed it so it doesn’t go all the way out to 30 degrees in one motion,” he said. The Tilt gets several thousand thrill-seeking visitors a day, according to Tony Wong, spokesman for 360 Chicago, the official name of the Hancock Center’s observation deck. I gripped the side rails harder, but experienced a brief feeling of falling and flying.
Then it tilted again seven more degrees, which made my heart rise into my throat as it continued on to its scary, 30-degree maximum. Then it progressed another nine degrees, which at first I feared was the maximum lean. The window first tilted out 10 degrees and stopped. It certainly did to this writer on a recent visit to the Windy City to see a Cubs game and do some exploration. The number 30 is significant because it’s four degrees past the point of equilibrium - giving passengers at least a momentary sense of falling. Its observation deck offers views of four states, including Wisconsin.Īnd it bests the Willis Tower with Tilt, an eight-station, hydraulic window that leans out in three stages to a 30-degree angle from the building's 94th floor. Michigan Ave.) on the city’s Magnificent Mile is 100 stories tall and tops out at a respectable 1,128 feet. The John Hancock Center (now officially known as 875 N. The tallest is the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower), which rises 1,450 feet and has four glass-bottomed ledges on its 103rd-floor Skydeck that jut out 4.3 feet from the structure and give the impression of standing in midair. Most of it sits on a smooth plain that was once the bottom of ancestral Lake Chicago.īut the Windy City has plenty of tall buildings, several of which climb more than a thousand feet above the surrounding metropolis and Lake Michigan. Watch Video: Visitors 'tilt' for views of ChicagoĬhicago’s topography is, in a word, flat.
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