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Second City Moving Offices to Tribune Tower After Wild Blaze: Report

By David Matthews | October 28, 2015 4:39pm
 Tribune Tower, 435 N. Michigan Ave.
Tribune Tower, 435 N. Michigan Ave.
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DOWNTOWN — The people working behind the scenes at Second City have found a new, temporary home on Michigan Avenue after an extra-alarm fire torched their offices, according to a report. 

The Old Town comedy club signed a 14-month lease for administration offices at Tribune Tower, 435 N. Michigan Ave., according to the Chicago Tribune. About 70 Second City employees will move into the neo-Gothic high-rise starting Nov. 15, the Tribune reports.

The move will come less than three months after a fire in a Mexican restaurant blazed through Second City's offices at 1616 N. Wells St. The theater where stars including Stephen Colbert and Tina Fey cut their comedic teeth reopened a month ago, but rehabilitation of Second City's offices is still apparently far off. Meanwhile, the theater's planned expansion is pressing ahead and plans for a December opening.

A Second City spokeswoman did not immediately return a message. 

More Second City coverage:

• Second City Offices 'Destroyed' In Extra-Alarm Old Town Fire (VIDEO)

• Historic Facade of Burned Second City Building Could Be Restored: Alderman

• iO Theater Comes To Second City's Rescue After Fire Destroys Its Offices

• Unfazed by Fire, Second City Expansion on Pace for Dec. Opening

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