Riverside Plaza, Art Deco skyscraper in downtown Chicago, US

Riverside Plaza is a 26-story Art Deco building at 2 North Riverside Plaza, originally the Chicago Daily News Building. Designed by Holabird & Root, it was the first American skyscraper with an open-air plaza and the first to use air rights over railroad tracks. Its facade features bas-reliefs of Benjamin Franklin, Horace Greeley, Joseph Pulitzer and other newspaper figures.

The building opened in 1929 as the home of the Chicago Daily News, one of the city's major newspapers at that time. It marked an important shift in urban development by introducing the first air-rights structure built above railroad tracks in America.

The exterior carries bas-reliefs of Benjamin Franklin, Horace Greeley, Joseph Pulitzer, James Gordon Bennett and Joseph Medill, plus a fountain honouring Victor Lawson. Inside, John W. Norton's mural divided the newsroom's work into Gathering, Printing and Transporting the News; it was removed in autumn 1993 and placed in storage.

The building connects directly to public transportation and sits within Chicago's central business district for easy access. Visitors can explore the public plaza area and enjoy the waterfront path along the river.

During the 1929 opening ceremony, President Herbert Hoover personally pressed a button to start the newspaper printing presses. This symbolic moment linked the nation's leadership directly to the machinery that delivered news to Chicago.