Two years after Google Inc. announced plans to acquire the James R. Thompson Center from the state, construction crews began uprooting the center’s trademark sculpture from its courtyard Friday.

A sculpture that has lived outside Chicago's James R. Thompson Center since the 1980s will be moved to a state facility, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's office said.

Jean Dubuffet’s 29 ft-tall sculpture Monument with Standing Beast (1984), a fixture outside Chicago’s James R. Thompson Center since before architect Helmut Jahn’s famous postmodernist ...

The black and white Jean Dubuffet sculpture outside the James R. Thompson Center never excited Chicago as did the Daley Center Picasso, nor did it ever garner the mass appeal of Millennium Park ...

A sculpture that has lived outside Chicago's James R. Thompson Center since the 1980s will be moved to a state facility, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's office said.

Please check your inbox for your confirmation. One Sunday earlier this month, Tom Guenther passed the James R. Thompson Center on his way to the Art Institute of Chicago, where he intended to ...

Google's transformation of the James R. Thompson Center into its flagship Chicago office is officially underway, a project that city and state officials are counting on as a catalyst for restoring ...

Gov. James R. Thompson unveils a working model of the new 17-story State of Illinois Center in 1980. (James Mayo/Chicago Tribune) Plans were unveiled for the structure by Thompson.

Pedestrians pass by the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago on May 2, 2017. Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune The empty Thompson Center during the coronavirus pandemic, March 22, 2020.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Demolition plans are moving forward at the Thompson Center. The city has granted permits to begin work demolishing the exterior and atrium of the iconic downtown building.

CHICAGO, Ill. (WAND) - Google will move into the renovated James R. Thompson Center, according to the governor's office.

The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB 5) has announced the participation of the James R Thompson Center as both a cultural partner and city site for the 5th edition of the exhibition.