A Deadly Day
René Ammann | 23. October 2023
The McCormick Place Lakeside Center, designed by Gene Summers and Helmut Jahn of C. F. Murphy Associates in 1971 and the site of around a thousand bird deaths on one day in October, is seen here from the 20-year-old McCormick Place Bird Sanctuary. (Photo: Eric Allix Rogers/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND)
Minimum number of birds that were killed on a single day in October, when they collided with a single Chicago building, McCormick Place Lakeside Center, part of the largest convention center in North America: 1,000