- Architect.
- According to police, Jahn was struck by two vehicles going in opposite directions after he failed to stop at an intersection. Jahn, who had lived in Chicago since 1966, designed the James R. Thompson Building, which had served as a secondary capitol for the State of Illinois, and United Airlines' Terminal 1 at O'Hare International Airport.
- Jahn established his reputation in 1985 with the State of Illinois Center in Chicago which prompted him to be dubbed "Flash Gordon". In addition to the main seat in Chicago, the company has offices in Berlin and Shanghai.
- In 1966, he went to Chicago to further study architecture under Myron Goldsmith and Fazlur Khan at the Illinois Institute of Technology on a Rotary Scholarship, earning a Master's degree in 1967.
- Generally inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, yet opposed to the doctrinal application of modernism by his followers, in 1978, Jahn became the eighth member of the Chicago Seven. His architectural style shifted from the modernism of the Miesian tradition to a postmodernist one with high-tech stylizations.
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