Trapped in Matter

Babylon alive and well in Chicago.
Straus Building - soon to be Metropolitan Tower
a step pyramid / ziggurat with a beehive (click for a transcript of a freemasonic talk on the symbolism of the beehive) on top.
Masonic Temples are often found to have both Ziggurat and Beehive motifs.
(although this was never 'officially' a freemasonic temple as far as i know)
here is also a link about Solomon's Temple which mentions the significance of the Ziggurat

from the emporis website about this building:

"The glass "beehive" ornament at the peak of the ziggurat holds a deep blue light, a prominent feature of Grant Park's night skyline. Before Christmas the light changes to green.
The 20-foot beehive beacon is supported by 4 stone bisons, which symbolize industriousness, thrift, and strength."

(what does the fourth stand for?)

"The beehive originally held 4 searchlights which shone in the 4 cardinal directions."

"The building was originally named after S.W. Straus & Co., a dealer of investment bonds and one of the leading financers of major real estate in Chicago during the late 19th and early 20th century."

found this interesting bit about S.W. Straus & Co.: (read it in context HERE)

William Randolph Hearst's motive in supporting Roosevelt was a matter of
urgent personal necessity. Hearst had repeatedly earned the enmity of
Rockefeller. In the late 1920's Hearst and Brisbane had expanded their real
estate holdings tremendously, financing them through S. W. Straus and Company
which they are reputed to have controlled. When the American Bank and
Mortgage Company, a competing real estate mortgage house affiliated with the
RockefellerMorgan interests, collapsed directly after the 1929 panic, Hearst
and Brisbane saw an opportunity to boost S. W. Straus and Company and their
bonds. They ran a running campaign which on one day demanded criminal
prosecution of the crude frauds perpetrated by the American Bond and Mortgage
Company, and on the following day called on the public to buy, as the safest
type of investment, S. W. Straus and Company bonds. "Never A Loss In Fifty
Years" was the slogan of the Straus Company that they hammered away in their
columns.