Among many issues, the glass used for the exterior was less than design specifications, to cut costs.
This added to the air conditioning demands, massively.
Besides cooling the AC acts like the defrost in your car to remove condensation from the windows, unfortunately, this one does not.
The condensation drips on everything, now mold grows on everything.
IIRC the AC system was replaced in year one, at a huge cost. Replacement glass is more than the building is worth.
Rauner has wanted to dump it from day one.
He lacks the muscle.
Form over function.
Spent a lot of time in Chicago in the last 20 years. Probably had Illinois withholding about a 25% of the pay periods. Glad I didn’t have to pay the property taxes, I was a fly-in / fly-out guy. It is amazing how much the people there pay from public employee pensions and featherbed employees. Its like 15% of everything you make forever if you add in all the taxes.
Pot. Frog. Boil.
And they like the system. I know people that shouldn’t be Dems but are due to the decades and family ties invested in the machine. It is loony tunes.