Research/Chicago/Time-Life Building
Public SeedReviewed August 17, 2026

Time-Life Building

541 N Fairbanks Ct, Chicago, IL 60611

QUALITY STATE

64% provisional source coverage

USE BOUNDARY

Not verified · Not dispatch ready

Direct answer

The Time-Life Building is an office building at 541 N Fairbanks Ct in Chicago, linked to City benchmark ID 101795. Public architectural and occupant sources support the identity and selected dated building facts, but current legal ownership, management, parcel identity and operating authority remain unverified. It is Graph Mapped, not Verified or Dispatch Ready.

Completed1969Published property record
StoriesUnknownConflicting or unavailable
Critical fields sourced6/1064% provisional coverage
Dispatch readyNoLive accuracy audit required
01

Canonical identity

This Public Seed connects the Time-Life Building to its source-scoped Chicago benchmark record and architectural history while keeping occupant contacts separate from building-management authority.

Property typeOffice
Management route
Ownership claim
Location41.89222, -87.61972
02

Area claims stay separate

Gross, rentable, and office area are not interchangeable. Factum stores each measurement with its source meaning instead of choosing a convenient single number.

Chicago benchmarking area712,914 sq ftCity 2023 benchmark row; retained as a source-scoped gross-floor-area measure
03

What public guidance supports

These are sourced research answers, not permission to enter, reserve, submit, or dispatch. Current affected-party authorization remains required.

Identity boundary

The mapped office building is the Time-Life Building at 541 N Fairbanks Court; occupant organizations at the address are not treated as owners or managers.

Public sources reviewed August 17, 2026

Architectural history

A university architectural archive attributes the building to Harry Weese Associates and dates construction to 1968–1970, with a later renovation attributed to Perkins & Will.

Archival source reviewed August 17, 2026

Coordinate conflict

The direct City benchmark row and the queue record contain materially different coordinates. Factum preserves the source-native values and does not use the discrepancy to move or merge the entity.

City 2023 row reviewed August 17, 2026
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Questions this record answers

Each concise answer includes the same caveats shown elsewhere on the page.

01What is the Time-Life Building in Chicago?+

It is an office building at 541 N Fairbanks Ct linked to Chicago benchmark ID 101795.

02Who owns or manages the Time-Life Building?+

Current legal ownership and building-management authority were not established from the reviewed public sources.

03Can occupant contacts be used for building access or dispatch?+

No. Public contacts for organizations occupying suites do not establish building-management, access, safety or dispatch authority.

05

Explicit unknowns

Anything operationally material that is stale, incomplete, or unconfirmed remains visible here.

  1. 01Current fee-title owner, beneficial ownership and parcel/PIN.
  2. 02Current building manager, operator and authority of any public contact.
  3. 03Current property-specific permits, life-safety, loading, telecom, access and dispatch rules.
06

Evidence register

Source links are direct. Authority and supported claim groups are stated so readers can inspect the underlying record.

  1. 01
    City of Chicago 2023 benchmark row 101795

    City of Chicago government data reviewed August 17, 2026 · Supports: Benchmark ID, office use, area and year-built reporting context

  2. 02
    UIC architectural archive entry

    University architectural archive reviewed August 17, 2026 · Supports: Time-Life Building identity, architect and construction chronology

  3. 03
    Northwestern Medicine location page

    Institutional occupant source reviewed August 17, 2026 · Supports: Address-scoped public occupant presence only

07

Public change history

Only meaningful, accepted public deltas appear here. The current record above remains canonical.

Published

Time-Life Building

The Time-Life Building was added as a Public Seed with benchmark and architectural identity evidence, explicit coordinate conflict handling, and no inferred operating authority.

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