 Many were concerned over the risk of a major fire breaking out and spreading, uncontrolled, from building to building.Chicago was not alone in having concerns over the growth of the skyscraper.In Boston, the Fiske and the Ames Buildings were built in the late 1880s, and tall respectively, but protests by local civic campaigners and the real estate industry resulted in the city passing a law to limit new buildings to a maximum of , effectively banning the construction of skyscrapers.