M. SPENCER GREEN/AP FILE – In this March 4, 2004 file photo, architect Helmut Jahn walks through a vacant lot on Chicago’s near north side. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green File) Posted at 1:21 PM, May 10, 2021 and last updated 2021-05-10 13:21:42-04 CHICAGO (AP) — A prominent German architect who designed Chicago’s state government building
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FILE – In this March 4, 2004 file photo, architect Helmut Jahn walks through a vacant lot on Chicago’s near north side. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green File)
Posted at 1:21 PM, May 10, 2021
and last updated 2021-05-10 13:21:42-04
CHICAGO (AP) — A prominent German architect who designed Chicago’s state government building and worked on the design of the FBI headquarters in Washington has been killed in a bike accident in Illinois.
Police say Helmut Jahn was pronounced dead at the scene after two vehicles struck the bicycle, which had failed to stop at a stop sign.
The crash happened in Campton Hills, which is about 55 miles west of Chicago.
The driver of one of the vehicles was treated at a hospital.
Jahn was born in Germany in 1940 and moved to Chicago in 1966.
One of his more controversial buildings was the James R. Thompson Building, a glass-sheathed, Illinois government office building in Chicago’s Loop that opened in 1985. It was put up for sale last week.
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