CHICAGO — Afraid of heights? Too bad for you.
A group of Ohio tourists, including a pair of 12-year-old girls, won a slew of prizes Monday after being the 100,000th visitors to try out TILT at the John Hancock building's observatory, which is now dubbed "360 Chicago."
The glass encasement on the 94th floor of the Hancock building, 875 N. Michigan Ave., that tips 30 degrees toward the street opened in May. The perch has since been dubbed one of the “Best Views in America" by Travel + Leisure magazine, and by visitors.
“I feel like the luckiest person in Chicago right now,” Allie Freeman, 12, told staffers after winning free access to TILT for life, among other prizes.
Allie, her mom Heidy, 47, and their friends Betsy Harris, 41, and Maddie Harris, 12, won a free hotel stay, shopping and restaurant gift cards, some TILT swag and free access for life, according to a release from 360 Chicago.
“We may have seen 100,000 people step on that platform, but the pleasure we get from watching the reactions of those who TILT never gets old,” said Nichole Williamson, General Manager of 360 CHICAGO, in a statement. “Young or old, man or woman, born-and-bred Chicagoan or international tourist, it’s an experience everyone seems to enjoy. It’s something they’ve never done before, in a place unlike any other. Who wouldn’t want to try?”
Nervous about the height? And the whole tipping thing? Learn all about how TILT was built here.
