AN ICONIC ADDRESS

BANK OF AMERICA TOWER AT 110 NORTH WACKER DRIVE IS PROUD TO BE THE SECOND GENERATION OF A LEGENDARY ADDRESS.

BANK OF AMERICA TOWER AT 110 NORTH WACKER DRIVE IS PROUD TO BE THE SECOND GENERATION
OF A LEGENDARY ADDRESS.

BANK OF AMERICA TOWER AT 110 NORTH WACKER DRIVE IS PROUD TO BE THE SECOND GENERATION OF A LEGENDARY ADDRESS.

THE HISTORY OF THE MORTON SALT COMPANY DATES TO 1848, WHEN RICHMOND & CO. BECAME THE WESTERN SALES AGENT FOR THE SALT MANUFACTURERS OF NEW YORK STATE. SALT WAS SHIPPED FROM THE ONONDAGA LAKE REGION TO CHICAGO ON ITS BOATS VIA THE ERIE CANAL, GREAT LAKES, AND THE CHICAGO RIVER. IN 1885, JOY MORTON TOOK OVER ONE OF THE RICHMOND COMPANY’S SUCCESSOR FIRMS, WHICH BY 1910 WAS INCORPORATED AS THE MORTON SALT COMPANY.  A VAST FLEET OF SHIPS TRANSPORTED SALT FROM MORTON’S MICHIGAN PLANTS TO CITIES ON THE GREAT LAKES. THE COMPANY DOMINATED CHICAGO’S SALT TRADE FROM ITS WAREHOUSE COMPLEX LOCATED FIRST NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE CHICAGO RIVER, AND LATER, ITS NORTH BRANCH. THE RIVER SERVED AS A VITAL ARTERY FOR THE MORTON SALT COMPANY AND COUNTLESS OTHER DIVERSE INDUSTRIES CLUSTERED ALONG ITS BANKS, PROPELLING CHICAGO’S PROSPERITY AS AN EARLY MANUFACTURING POWERHOUSE AND THE MIDWEST’S PREMIER DISTRIBUTION CENTER.