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Willis Tower reconsidered: New photo exhibit examines the city's tallest...
Willis Tower, downtown's 1,450 ft. stack of architecture, engineering, commerce and civic pride, turns 40 next year. If you are of a certain age, that milestone might be as jarring as the fact that the...
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A look back at – or down from? – Chicago’s observation decks
In Saul Bellow’s 1987 novel More Die of Heartbreak, protagonist Kenneth Trachtenberg takes his uncle to the observation deck on the 102nd floor of the “Electronic Tower,” a mammoth skyscraper in an...
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The tallest rock
Forty years ago today—May 3, 1973. Has it really been that long?On Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago, the Sears Tower was topped off. Our city now had the tallest building in the world.Sears had...
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1 World Trade Center named tallest US building
The new World Trade Center tower in New York will replace Chicago's Willis Tower as the nation's tallest building when it is completed next year, an international panel of architects announced...
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Blackstone buying Willis Tower
NEW YORK — Blackstone is buying Chicago's Willis Tower, once called the Sears Tower, from 233 South Wacker LLC.While the price has not been announced, MarketWatch reported the sale at $1.3 billion.The...
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