What's up with that?

A: After the Bears did the Super Bowl Shuffle all over the Patriots to end the 1985-86 season, a large #1 graced the south side of the Aon Center (200 E Randolph St, then named the Amoco Building); a cross beamed from the building at Christmastime one year; and last year, after the White Sox won the World Series, go sox shone on the top two thirds of the building. But when we asked Aon Center operations manager Michael Lyons about the “whale” in question, he asked us what we were smoking. “I’m sure there are times the building resembles a lot of things because people leave their office lights on overnight,” Lyons says. The only time the Aon Center has special lighting—besides a pink top-floor in October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month—is if it’s requested by the city. The most recent White Sox project was “quite labor intensive,” Lyons says. “We plotted it out on an Excel sheet from the 81st floor down. Then we went and blanked the windows out on the appropriate floors with drapes and blinds.”—Jake Malooley

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