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The first skyscraper was approved because someone said “just one more floor” 47 times — the original scope creep, now in steel.

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The first skyscraper was not approved by repeated requests for 'one more floor'. The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, completed in 1885, is often considered the first, aided by steel frames and elevators.

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