I've recently taken an interest in the 1933-34 Century of Progress
Exposition that ran in Chicago, and since then my imagination has been
running wild as to what it would've been like had King Kong gone on his
rampage in the Windy City instead of the Big Apple. From what I can
gather of the Chicago skyline at the time, I myself picture the big ape
making his climb up either the Palmolive Building near the lakefront
with its massive beacon on top or the Board of Trade Building with its
statue of the goddess Ceres, the latter perhaps being more plausible as
it was the tallest building in Chicago at the time, not to mention for
its Art Deco design. Still, the Palmolive would've had a spectacular
backdrop of Lake Michigan for Kong's last stand.