Corporate photography at the Leo Burnett Building

The Leo Burnett Building is a fifty story tower of 635 feet at 35 West Wacker Drive, on the Loop bank of the river along the Wacker Drive spine. It was completed in 1989 to a design by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo, and it belongs to the late 1980s generation of Wacker Drive towers rather than to the glass buildings that came after 2015. The address is named for Leo Burnett Worldwide, the advertising agency founded in Chicago on August 5, 1935, and the building has been an advertising and media address for its whole working life. Wacker Drive puts it within walking distance of most of the Loop and a short walk from the river bridges into River North.

Leo Burnett Worldwide, founded in Chicago on August 5, 1935, gives the building its name. Starcom Worldwide has its headquarters here, and the law firm Winston & Strawn is in the building as well. That produces two different briefs at one address. Agency and media groups usually want more individuality in a portrait, and a firm usually wants a single consistent set across everyone. If your team is in this building, we set the session to whichever of those applies to you.

The session happens on your floor, in a conference room of about eight by ten feet with a power outlet. A 1989 tower of this size has a proper dock and freight elevator, and both are booked through building management, so confirm the window and the certificate of insurance requirement when the date is set. Creative floors often have an open plan and a shortage of enclosed rooms, so it is worth identifying the room early rather than on the morning. A room with a window wall is preferred, and the river side of the building usually has several.

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.