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CHICAGO — The Hearn Co. has purchased 55 W. Monroe in Chicago from LaSalle Investment Management for $136 million. The 803,000-square-foot, 40-story office tower was once known as the Xerox Center. The new owner plans to make street-level changes to the entries and upgrade the property's amenities and common areas. Bruce Miller, Jim Postweiler, David Hendrikson, Keith Largay, Jascint Vukelich and Nooshin Felsenthal of Jones Lang LaSalle represented Hearn in the transaction. The brokerage also secured acquisition financing of $108 million: $86.5 million in senior debt through Wells Fargo Bank and $21.5 million in mezzanine facility through Redwood Trust.