The center, which was renamed for former four-term governor James R. Thompson in 1992, has never lived down those problems, even though some of them have been corrected and the building's interior, particularly its basement food court, is heavily used by the public. Even the building's atrium, one of the great interior spaces of downtown Chicago, gets mixed reviews. Noise from events like a mariachi band concert still wafts up into offices ringing the atrium and disturbs people at their desks, workers in the building told me last week.