A downtown Chicago office building is the site of a touching tribute, twenty five years after the September 11th attacks.
At the Aon Center at 200 East Randolph, there are rows of tiny American flags in the grass, surrounded by larger flags that reach up into the sky.
176 employees of Aon, an insurance broker, were killed at the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11th, 2001.
Sophia Gabrielson, who was born a month after the attacks, found a quiet spot in the shadow of the flags on Thursday afternoon and told WBBM, "I think it is a reminder of the things that we all hold for granted...a reminder to slow down and appreciate our first responders, the people who are serving our country, who are doing what they can every day to help people out."
Brink Miller, who was three years old in 2001, was also looking at the flags and said, "I think it's a touching monument...it's touching to see. I only remember the post 9/11 world."
Valency Muldoon looked at the flags and said the moment still hurts, all these years later.
"I'm thinking about the 176 colleagues of my company that were killed in New York City when the towers fell. My thoughts on that day were with my colleagues in this building (Aon Center) which I'm sure many people know is modeled in a very similar construction as the World Trade Center, it looks like the World Trade Center."
Mark Noethen works at the Aon Center and said, "I think it's unbelievable the landlord did the time and the effort to put the flags out. I think sometimes you might think 9/11 has receded into history, so it's good to see the people still remember."
Aon says in the aftermath of 9/11, Aon colleagues, clients and friends created the Aon Memorial Education Fund to provide scholarships to the dependent children of Aon employees who died in the attacks.
Since its inception, the fund has issued more than $7.1 million in student assistance to nearly 130 dependents.
