Tensions are rising in the Windy City as Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Donald Trump butt heads over a sign on the 96 story Trump International Hotel and Tower. On Thursday the mayor's office put out a statement calling the sign 20 foot sign that towers over the city's iconic river walk "architecturally tasteless." 

"If the sign was in Atlantic City or Las Vegas, nobody would care - but it is in Chicago, and in a part of Chicago full of great buildings from the 1920s to the 1960s and onward," said Blair Kamin, an architectural critic for the Chicago Tribune. "None of the other towers have signs on them." He went on to say the large stainless steel sign, "loom(s) over a venerable cluster of 1920s skyscrapers." 

This part is true, Chicago is its architecture, more than any other city in the country Chicago pays attention to how all the buildings fit together, how they look and work together, and that is an essential part of the city, especially in the river walk area.

Mr. Trump blames Kamin, saying the Pulitzer prize winning journalist is a "third-rate architecture critic." Also noting that "We got full approval," the AP reported. Which is true, the city council did already approve the sign. Trump continued to fight back on twitter, saying, "Before I bought the site, the Sun Times had the biggest, ugliest sign Chicago has ever seen. Mine is magnificent and popular."

Emanuel believes it is "a very tasteful builiding," but that the sign "scars the architecture."

While the resolution to the conflict may take a legal turn Emmanuel has said, "I've asked my staff to look at this, so a situation like this doesn't emerge in the future,"