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City Hall Rooftop Garden
 
 About the Rooftop Garden  
 The City Hall rooftop garden sits atop Chicago's City Hall, an 11-story office building in Chicago's Loop
 
 
 Monitoring the Rooftop Garden's Benefits  
 Data Comparison Between the City Hall Rooftop Garden and the Black Tar Roof of the Cook County Building
 
 
 Rooftop Garden Construction  
 The Rooftop Garden Photo Gallery shows the sequence of how the City Hall rooftop garden evolved
 
 
 Rooftop Garden Design  
 The design of the City Hall Rooftop Garden required many months of work by environmental engineers, structural engineers, architects and landscape architects
 
 
 Rooftop Garden Photo Gallery  
 Rooftop Garden Photo Gallery
 
 
 Rooftop Garden Plants and Maintenance  
 The 20,300 square foot City Hall rooftop garden has 20,000 plants of more than 150 varieties including 100 shrubs, 40 vines and 2 trees
 
 
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