If the United States has a national architectural form, it is the skyscraper. The notion of building a tower to the heavens is as old as Genesis, but it took some brash 19th century Americans to ...

In 1973, Sears moved into Chicago's Sears Tower—which opened as the tallest building in the world. Nearly two decades later, ...

More than 1.7 million people make their way to Willis Tower's Skydeck Chicago each year, and it's easy to see why. Occupying the 103rd floor – that's nine floors higher than 360 CHICAGO – of ...

Retail operations moved to the new Sears Tower headquarters in 1973, then the current headquarters in Hoffman Estates in 1995. Craftsman wrench set advertised in 1933 Sears Christmas Book ...

British insurance broker Willis Group Holdings Ltd. will lease space in the iconic Sears Tower, changing the building's name to Willis Tower. Video courtesy of Fox News.

The boxy, stark modernism of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe has long since given way to curves and twists, and the race to create the tallest building is back in full swing, after the Sears Tower put ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- "Think about it. There must be higher love. Up in the tower formerly known as Sears above." With apologies to Steve Winwood, Kygo, and Whitney Houston, that paraphrased lyric ...