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Of all the empty buildings in Minnesota — the downtown office towers, suburban campuses, small-town main streets, abandoned schools and churches, and giant warehouses built on speculation — the empty ...
One of Atlanta’s tallest towers could soon be renamed for the first time since it marked the city’s skyline 33 years ago.
Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 3, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the ...
In 1973, Sears moved its corporate headquarters into Chicago's Sears Tower—which opened as the tallest building in the world.
The Sears Tower in downtown Chicago, where the corporate parent operated, was the world’s tallest skyscraper until 1998.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- ABC7 Chicago installed a new antenna on top of the Willis Tower Sunday morning. Chopper 7 captured the process. Another helicopter lifted the 5,500-pound, 32-foot antenna up to ...
CHICAGO — One of Chicago’s most beloved buildings – the Willis Tower – its golden anniversary on Thursday. “We are 50 years old,” said Lydia Jordan-Parnell, a Willis Tower spokesperson.
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… ...
In 2009, its famous Chicago skyscraper was renamed the Willis Tower. And in 2018, the company declared bankruptcy. Over its 105-year run, the catalog was a fixture in Americans’ homes.
Sears left the building for corporate campus in Hoffman Estates in the 1992, a move that bruised Chicago’s civic pride and complicated commutes for many employees.