Corporate photography at Aon Center

Aon Center is the 83 floor tower at 200 East Randolph Street, 1,136 feet tall and the fourth tallest building in Chicago. It opened in 1972 as the Standard Oil Building, took the Aon name in 1999, and sold to The 601W Companies for $712 million. The site is the New East Side, at the north edge of Millennium Park, which gives the building something most Loop towers do not have: a park across the street rather than another tower. For a team based here that matters on the day, because an outdoor option for leadership portraits is a short walk out the door instead of a car ride.

Aon is in the building that carries its name. KPMG occupies Suite 5500. Kraft Heinz moved in from Northfield in early 2016, taking roughly 170,000 square feet across five floors. Edelman, founded in Chicago in 1952, keeps a major Chicago office on the 63rd floor. That roster spans insurance and risk, professional services, packaged foods and communications, and those four sectors want visibly different portraits from the same room.

Plan the day around floors rather than around the building. Tenants here hold blocks that run several floors deep, so a program often means one setup and a schedule that walks people down an internal stair or over one elevator hop. Confirm dock hours, certificate of insurance requirements and freight access with building management the week before. The full lighting kit moves on one cart. Millennium Park sits across Randolph if the brief wants an environmental frame, and that is worth deciding before the date rather than during it.

We photograph on site, in your own office. If your team is in this building, the notes below are what the day looks like. Nothing here is a claim to a past session in it, and no tenant named is a client unless it says so elsewhere on this site.