Jacques Brownson, the chief architect of Chicago’s Richard J. Daley Center, the steely, broad-shouldered modernist skyscraper that ranks among Chicago’s greatest post-World World II designs, died Sunday at McKee Medical Center in Loveland, Colo. He was 88 years old.
The cause of death was a heart attack, said his wife Doris.
Born in west suburban Aurora in 1923, Mr. Brownson earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture from IIT in 1948 and 1954.
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