them in 1939 to create SOM. The Carbide & Carbon Building is probably the best known of all the brothers' Chicago commissions. Their other building designs include the original State of Illinois Building at 160 N. LaSalle St. (1924), the Seneca Hotel at 200 E. Chestnut St. (1926), the Bankers Building, aka the Clark-Adams Building (1927), the City-State Building (1927), the Randolph-Wells Building (1928), and the Engineering Building at 205 W. Wacker Dr. (1928), all in Chicago; and the Joliet Chamber of Commerce Clubhouse (1925), the Joliet YMCA Building (1928) and the auditorium of Joliet Township High School (now Joliet Central). Working under the temporarily revived D.H. Burnham Co. name, Burnham Brothers designed the 2,100-seat high school auditorium as part of the school's 1924 addition; the firm was also involved with the school's 1917, 1922 and 1931 additions. In popular culture The top of the Carbide & Carbon Building was the filming location for an opening shooting scene in the 2008 film Wanted, starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie. It is also the filming location for Bruce Wayne's building / Batgirl's lair, in Gotham City, as incorporated in the Arrowverse as part of Elseworlds, a 2018 crossover storyline among the shows, which introduced Batwoman. The building also appeared in Season 10, Episode 4 of Shameless. A scaled-up version of the building features as a prominent landmark within the fictional city of Lost Heaven in the video game Mafia: Definitive Edition. Gallery See also Chicago architecture Daniel Burnham Graham, Anderson, Probst & White References External links Chicago Landmarks: Carbide and Carbon Building Carbide & Carbon Building on Emporis St. Jane Chicago Hotel official website Office buildings completed in 1929 Skyscraper office buildings in Chicago Art Deco skyscrapers Hotels in Chicago Art Deco hotels Art Deco architecture in Illinois Chicago Landmarks 1929 establishments in Illinois