IIT STUDENT BUILDS CHICAGO OUT OF LEGOS

At any given moment, Rocco Buttliere has about 200,000 extra Legos sitting in a room at his Buffalo Grove home. That’s not counting the 125,000 he’s already used to reconstruct Chicago skyscrapers. The 18-year-old architecture student at the Illinois Institute of Technology has been playing with the plastic bricks since first grade, but in 2009, he started to get serious about building scale models of skyscrapers, many of which are inspired by Chicago.

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