At 3:30 in the morning of August 12, 1971, Kowalski returned from a night of bar-hopping on Rush Street to his apartment in the John Hancock Center. According to Marshall, Kowalski was drunk and unhappy about the direction their relationship was headed. He retired to the solace of his bedroom. Around 4:10 a.m., he came out, found her clothes on the floor and the bedroom window shattered. She had jumped nude from the 90th floor window onto the Chestnut side of the building and killed herself. According to the building's engineer, the windows of the John Hancock Center are made out of two quarte‹›
Olympia Centre

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Exterior · Chicago, United States · 1986

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At 3:30 in the morning of August 12, 1971, Kowalski returned from a night of bar-hopping on Rush Street to his apartment in the John Hancock Center. According to Marshall, Kowalski was drunk and unhappy about the direction their relationship was headed. He retired to the solace of his bedroom. Around 4:10 a.m., he came out, found her clothes on the floor and the bedroom window shattered. She had jumped nude from the 90th floor window onto the Chestnut side of the building and killed herself. According to the building's engineer, the windows of the John Hancock Center are made out of two quarte

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