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