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"Tilt!" tips tourists out from Chicago's John Hancock Tower

"Tilt!" tips tourists out from Chicago's John Hancock Tower

Visitors to Chicago’s John Hancock Tower this weekend were, of course, treated to the skyscraper’s stunning views of Lake Michigan and downtown Chicago, but the thrill-seekers among them also had another option. On the 94th floor, up to eight people at a time can stand in a glass box that tilts out 20 degrees, dangling them 1,000 feet above the street.

Named “Tilt!,” the attraction opened Saturday morning, hydraulically lifting its first eight members of the public out into the void beyond the building’s iconic steel beams.

The Hancock Center, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill partner Bruce Graham, has been the second tallest building in Chicago since the 1973 opening of the Willis (formerly Sears) Tower, also an SOM building. Willis’ “Ledge” attraction, a stationary glass box cantilevered out about four feet from the tower, has attracted more than a million visitors each year since it opened in 2009.


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