Tenant Rules & Regulations

1.  The tenant agrees to observe the rights reserved to Landlord and agrees, for itself, its subtenants and occupants, its and their agents, its employees, clients, customers, invitees, licenses and guests, to comply with the following rules and regulations and with such reasonable modifications thereof and additions thereto as Landlord may make, from time to time, for the building.

2.  The sidewalks, halls, passages, elevators, elevator lobbies and stairways shall not be obstructed by the tenant or used for any purpose other than for ingress to and egress from the leased premises. The halls, passages, entrances, elevators, stairways, balconies and roof are not for the use of the general public, and the Landlord shall in all cases retain the right to control and prevent access thereto of all persons whose presence in the judgment of the Landlord shall be prejudicial to the safety, character, reputation and interests of the building and its tenants, provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent such persons are engaged in illegal activities.

3.  Tenant shall not: place anything or allow anything to be placed near the glass or any door, partition or window which may be unsightly and may be seen from the outside premises; take or permit to be taken in or out of other entrances in the building, or take or permit on the elevators, any item taken in or out of the trucking concourse, service doors or in or out the freight elevators; or, whether temporarily, accidentally, or otherwise, allow anything to remain in, place or store anything in or obstruct in any way, any passageway, exit stairway, elevator shipping platform or truck concourse. Tenant shall fully cooperate to keep such areas free from all obstruction and in a clean condition and to move all supplies, furniture and equipment as soon as received directly to the premises and move all such items and waste, other than customarily removed by the employees of the building, being taken from the premises, directly to the shipping platform at or about the time arranged for removal.

4.  The sashes, sash doors, windows, glass lights and any lights or skylights that reflect or admit light into the halls or other places of the building shall not be covered or obstructed. The toilet rooms, water and wash closets, and other water apparatus shall not be used for any purpose other than that for which they are constructed, and no foreign substance of any kind whatsoever shall be thrown therein, and the expense for any breakage, stoppage or damage resulting as a violation of this rule shall be borne by the tenant, of whose clerk, agents, servants or visitors shall have caused it.

5.  If the Landlord, by notice in writing to the tenant, shall object to any curtain, blind, shade or screen attached to, or hung in, or used in connection with, any window or door of the leased premises, such use of such curtain, blind, shade or screen shall be discontinued forthwith by the tenant. No awnings shall be permitted on any part of the leased premises.

6.  No safes or other objects heavier than lift capacity of the freight elevators of the building shall be brought into or installed in the leased premises. Tenants shall not place a load upon any floor of the leased premises, which exceeds the load per square foot, which such floor is designed to carry and which is permitted by law. The moving of safes shall occur only between such hours as may be designated by and only upon previous notice to the manager of the building and the persons employed to move safes in or out of the building must be acceptable to the Landlord. No freight, furniture or bulky matter of any description shall be received into the building or carried into the elevators except during hours and in a manner approved by the Landlord.

7.  Tenants shall not use, keep or permit to be used any foul or noxious gas or substance in the leased premises, or permit of suffer the leased premises to be occupied or used in a manner offensive or objectionable to the Landlord and other occupants of the building by reason of noise, odors and/or vibrations or interfere in any way with other tenants or those having business therein, nor shall any animals or birds (except Seeing Eye Dogs) be brought into or kept in or about the building.

8.  "Tenant shall not bring any weapons or firearms into the Building."

9.  Tenants shall not use or keep in the building any flammables, including but not limited to kerosene, gasoline, naptha, and benzine (except cleaning fluids in small quantities and when in containers approved by the Board of Underwriters), or explosives or any other articles of intrinsically dangerous nature, or use any method of heating other than that supplied by the Landlord.

10.  If Tenant desires telephone connections or alarm systems, Landlord will direct electricians as to where and how the wires are introduced. No boring or cutting for wires or otherwise shall be made without specific directions by the Landlord.

11.  Tenant, upon termination of tenancy, shall deliver to the Landlord all the keys of offices, rooms and toilet rooms which shall have been furnished Tenant or which Tenant shall have made, and in the event of loss of any keys so furnished shall pay the Landlord therefore.

12.  Tenant shall not put down any floor covering in the leased premises without Landlord's prior approval of the manner and method of applying such floor covering.

13.  On Saturdays, Sundays, Legal Holidays and all other days between the hours of 7:00PM and 8:00AM, access to the building, halls, corridors, elevators or stairways in the building or to the leased premises may be refused unless the person seeking access is known to then security in charge of the building, has a pass or is properly identified. Services to be provided to the tenant as previously outlined in the lease shall be provided only during those hours in which the building is open to the public. Landlord shall in no case be liable for damages for the admission to or exclusion from the building of any person whom the Landlord has the right under Rule #1. In the case of invasion, mob, riot, public excitement or other commotion, Landlord has the right to prevent access to the building during the continuance of the same by closing the doors or otherwise, for the safety of the tenants or Landlord and the protection of the property in the building.

14.  Before leaving the premises unattached, the tenant shall close and securely lock all doors and shut off all utilities. The tenant shall pay for any damage resulting from the failure to comply.

15.  In advertising or other publicity, without Landlord's prior consent, the Tenant shall not use the name of the building except as the address of its business and shall not use pictures of the building.

16.  Tenant shall not make any room-to-room canvass to solicit business from other tenants in the building; and shall not exhibit, sell, offer to sell, use rent, exchange in or from the leased premises unless ordinarily embraced within the tenant's use of the leased premises specified herein.

17.  Tenant shall not waste electricity, water or air conditioning and agree to cooperate fully with the Landlord to assure the most effective operation of the building's heating and air conditioning, and shall not allow the adjustment (except by Landlord's authorized building personnel) of any controls other than room thermostats installed for the tenant's use. Tenant shall keep corridor doors closed.

18.  Tenant shall not do any cooking in the leased premises or engage any coffee cart service.

19.  Any wallpaper or vinyl fabric materials that the tenant shall install on painted walls shall be applied with strippable adhesive. The use of non strippable adhesives will cause damage to the walls when the material are removed and repairs made necessary thereby shall be made by the Landlord at Tenant's expense.

20.  Tenant will refer to all contractors, contractors' representatives, and installation technicians, rendering any service to the tenant, to Landlord for Landlord's supervision, approval, and control before performance of any contractual service. This provision shall apply to all work performed in the building including installations of any nature affecting floors, walls, woodwork, trim, windows, ceilings, equipment or any other physical portion of the building.

21.  Movement in or out of the building with furniture, office equipment, or other bulky materials or movement through the building entrance on lobby shall be restricted to the hours designated by the Landlord. All such movements shall be under the supervision of the Landlord and in the manner agreed between Tenant and Landlord by pre-arrangement before performance. Such pre-arrangement initiated by the tenant will include determination by the Landlord and subject to the decision and control, of the time, method, routing of movement and limitations imposed by safety or other concerns which may prohibit any article, equipment or any other item from being brought into the building. Tenant is to assume all risk as to damage of articles moved and injury to persons whether public engaged or not engaged in such movement, including equipment, property and personnel of Landlord if damaged or injured as a result of acts in connection with carrying out this service for the tenant from time of entering property to completion of work; and Landlord shall not be liable for acts of any person engaged in, any damage or loss to any of said property of persons resulting from any act in connection with such service performed for the tenant and the tenant hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Landlord from and against any such damage, injury or loss, including attorney's fees.

22.  No portion of the tenant's area or any other part of the building shall be at any time used or occupied as sleeping or lodging quarters.

23.  Landlord will not be responsible for lost or stolen personal property, equipment, money or jewelry from the tenant's area or any public rooms regardless of whether such loss occurs when such area is locked against entry or not.

24.  Employees of Landlord shall not receive or carry messages for or to any tenant or other person, nor contract with or render free or paid services to any tenant or tenant's agents, employees or invitees; in the event of any Landlord's employees perform any such services, such employee will be deemed the agent of the tenant regardless of whether or how the payment is arranged for services and Landlord is expressly relieved from any and all liability in connection with any such services and any associated injury or damage to person or property.

25.  Tenant and its employees, agents and invitees shall observe and comply with the driving and parking signs and markers on the property surrounding the building.

26.  Tenant shall have prompt notice to the Landlord of any accidents to or defects in plumbing, electrical features or heating apparatus so that such accidents or defects may be attended to promptly.

27.  No vending machines of any description shall be installed, maintained or operated in any part of the building without consent of the Landlord.

28.  Tenant assumes all responsibility for protecting its space from theft, robbery and pilferage, which includes keeping doors locked and other means of entry to the premises closed and secured.

29.  Tenant shall not paint, display, inscribe or affix any sign, trademark, picture, advertising, notice, lettering or direction of any part of the outside or inside of the building, or on the premises, except on the public hallways of the premises, and then only such name or names or matter of such color, size, style, character and material as shall be first approved by the Landlord in writing. Landlord reserves the right to remove any other matter, without notice to the tenant and at the sole cost and expense of the tenant.

30.  Tenant shall not place any radio or television antenna, aerial wires or other equipment on the roof or any part of the inside or outside of the building other than the inside of the premises; operate or permit to operate or permit to be operated any musical or sound producing instrument or device inside or outside the premises which may be heard outside the premises; or operate any electrical device from which may emanate electrical waves which may interfere with or impair radio or television broadcasting or reception from or in the building or elsewhere.

31.  Tenant shall not bring or permit to be in the building any bicycle or other vehicle, or dog (except in the company of a blind person) or other animal; make or permit any noise, vibration or odor to emanate on the premises; do anything therein tending to create or maintain a nuisance, disturb, solicit or canvass an occupant of the building or do any act tending to injure the reputation of the building.

32.  Tenant shall not attach or permit to be attached additional locks or similar devices to any doors, transom or window; change existing locks or the mechanism thereof; or make or permit to be made any keys for any door other than those provided by the Landlord. (If more than two keys for one lock are desired, the Landlord will provide them upon payment thereof by Tenant.) We have recently added a Primus key system. This system allows us to delegate one key per person. The Primus keying system permits us to increase the security awareness in the building, as the keys are non-duplicable.

33.  Tenant shall not do any painting or decorating in the premises; or mark; paint, cut or drill into, drive nails or screws into, or in any way deface any part of the premises of the building, outside or inside, without the prior consent of the Landlord. (If the tenant signal, communication, alarm or other utility or service connections installed or changed, the same shall be made by and at the expense of the tenant, with the approval and under direction of the Landlord.)

34.  No person or contractor not employed by the Landlord shall be used to perform window washing, cleaning, decorating, repair, or other work in or on the premises.

35.  Bicycles shall not be permitted in the building in other than Landlord designated positions. See Rule#29

36.  Tenant shall cooperate and participate in all security programs affecting the building.

37.  The "Smoke Free Illinois Act", which took effect on January 1, 2008, prohibits smoking within 15 feet of any entrance, window, ventilation intake, etc.  In addition, smoking is prohibited in workplaces and indoor public places such as the emergency stairwells, freight elevator vestibules, restrooms, etc.  At this time, the outdoor Designated Smoking Area at the Wacker Dr. entrance on the south side of the Wintergarden is the only area where smoking is permitted on this property.

38.  In the event the Landlord allows one or more tenants in the building to do any act prohibited herein; the Landlord shall not be precluded from denying any other tenant the right to do any such act.

39.  Landlord reserves the right to make such other and reasonable rules and regulations as in its judgment may from time to time be needed for the safety, care, cleanliness of the building and for the preservation of good order therein.

40.  Tenant may only have alcoholic beverages in the Building with the prior consent of the Landlord.

41.  If you have any questions regarding these rules and regulations please contact the Office of the Building at (312) 692-8200.