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Article: Fire Closes LaSalle Bank Headquarters.
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- American Banker
- Article date:
- December 8, 2004
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LaSalle Bank Corp.'s corporate headquarters in downtown Chicago was closed Tuesday after a five-alarm fire damaged the 45-story building and injured dozens of people Monday night.
More than 3,000 people work in the building. The fire broke out at 6:30 p.m. central standard time on the 29th floor, which houses the ABN Amro Holding NV unit's trust operations.
The building, at 135 South LaSalle Street in Chicago's Loop district, also houses marketing and administration functions, as well as "a number of front-office customer-facing businesses," Lewis Rosenthal, a LaSalle executive vice president and the head of its business continuity efforts, said on a ...