Cultural involvement Merchandise Mart

owing expanding postwar economy , family, owners began offering tours in 1948. architecture , design interest groups continue offer scheduled tours.
the mart hosts annual art chicago activities.
chicago marathon routes have taken runners past structure, typically on wells street.

in popular culture

the 1948 film call northside 777, made in illinois , mart seen newspaper offices on wacker drive.
the lobby appeared in movie hudsucker proxy interior of hudsucker company headquarters.
in 1956, eight-minute short subject film merchandise mart used mart s name , covered in detail building s interior , operations.
david letterman once called merchandise mart hall of fame pez hall of fame because combination of busts atop tall vertical pedestals resembled candy s dispensers.
in 1993 film fugitive, u.s. marshals pinpoint location of dr. richard kimble when hear cta train conductor announce, next stop, merchandise mart in background of recorded phone call.
used candor headquarters in 2012 novel insurgent (novel).




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^ art chicago 2007 . merchandisemart.com. 2007-07-19. 
^ movies made in illinois . learnaboutmovieposters.com. 2007-07-10. archived original on 2007-05-12. 
^ cite error: named reference emporis invoked never defined (see page).
^ scheffler, mark (july 9, 2005). filming @ intersection of culture , commerce . crain s chicago business. 
^ chicago architecture foundation . frommer s. retrieved february 17, 2016. 
^ script: fugitive - dialogue transcript (pdf). script-o-rama. may 10, 1993.