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There are stickers on the building. It is a nearly 600000 square foot building and the exterior is all windows.

1000 birds don’t hit it _every day_ this was an exceptional even caused by specific conditions.

The facility is actively trying new lighting solutions to mitigate bird strikes as that’s the main issue.

To give a sense of the scale of this building: Part of the convention center empty: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8535338,-87.6124521,3a,75y,6...

From what used to be Meigs Field. You have to back up quite a bit to see the entire building. It's very large, and right on the lake. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8538295,-87.6090441,3a,75y,2...

A crew of window cleaners could hit it in under a week

It has stickers

Right... swing down and apply stickers. Yes I read the article.