There is no greater monument to the scale of Sears at its height than the 1,451-foot, 110-story tower it erected in Chicago. When Sears Tower opened in 1973, it was the world’s tallest building ...

The new site for the Sears Tower as seen from 16 floors up looking east across Wacker Drive in Chicago on Dec. 22, 1969. Construction begins at the site for the Sears Tower in Chicago in December 1… ...

If you're from Chicago and you're older than 30, you once knew the tall and iconic building composed of bundled tubes at 233 S. Wacker Dr. as the Sears Tower ...

Sears Tower, the tallest building in America, seen Thursday, March 12, 2008, in Chicago is going to be renamed Willis Tower after London-based Willis Group Holdings.

In Chicago we hold fast," Chicago teacher Marianne Turk, 46, said as she stood in line this week to go up to the building's Skydeck. The tower's original tenant, Sears Roebuck and Co., moved out ...

The 110-story skyscraper had been called the Sears Tower since its opening in 1973. It's original tenant, Sears Roebuck and Co., moved out in 1992.

CHICAGO -- The Sears Tower, one of the world's iconic skyscrapers and the tallest building in the U.S., was renamed the Willis Tower on Thursday in a downtown ceremony, marking ...

It appears that major flooding last Sunday caused a building-wide power outage at Chicago's iconic 1,450 ft.-tall Willis Tower (aka Sears Tower), which has since loomed ominously over the city's ...

The observation deck at Willis Tower. The Blackstone Group will buy Chicago's Willis Tower for $1.3 billion, the highest price ever paid for an American office tower outside of New York City. The ...

In a symbolic milestone, Sears will soon close its last store in Chicago — the city the iconic retailer has called home or been closely connected to for 120 years. The store, at 4730 W. Irving ...

There is no greater monument to the scale of Sears at its height than the 1,451-foot, 110-story tower it erected in Chicago. When Sears Tower opened in 1973, it was the world’s tallest building ...

CHICAGO — For Chicagoans it may be the architectural equivalent of having to watch Michael Jordan finish his career in a Washington Wizards uniform: The Sears Tower is turning into something ...