Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower, opened in 1973, though construction was not completed until 1974. The skyscraper was the world’s tallest building until 1998, when it was ...

THE SEARS TOWER YOU’VE HEARD OF WAS ACTUALLY NOT THE FIRST. The record-breaking skyscraper that looms over Chicago’s Wacker Drive was conceived and constructed between 1969 and 1973, ...

Sears Tower is generating enough cash to keep Trizec current with its mortgage payments. Many of the tenants, including some that are leaving, have long-term leases.

Associated Press fileSears Tower to be renamed Willis Tower.CHICAGO -- Sports fans have dealt with it for years: a favorite team sells the naming rights to its stadium in a lucrative, if ...

Power outage at Willis Tower leaves building looking ‘disappointed,’ just like everyone else in 2020 Chicagoans who noticed that their beloved “Sears Tower” had lost its twinkling lights ...

The Sears Tower is gone, replaced by something called the Willis Tower. And the wound was still sore this morning when I read this in the Chicago Tribune: We need to get over it and accept ...

CHICAGO -- Yesterday, while on a day trip in Chicago, my family and I squeezed into a packed elevator and rode 103 floors -- that’s 1,353 feet -- to the top of the Sears Tower, 233 S. Wacker Dr.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

The tower's original tenant, Sears Roebuck and Co., moved out in 1992 but its name remained. A real estate investment group, American Landmark Properties of Skokie, now owns the 1,450-foot-tall ...

Sears Tower. 10 Things You Didn't Know About Chicago Many know Chicago is known as "the Windy City" and Wrigley Field is one of America's oldest baseball stadiums, but there are a ...

The Sears Tower has come up in other investigations since 2001, though some of those cases turned out to be more hoax than plot.

The days of leaning up against the Sears Tower windows for a better view are over. Starting Thursday a glass viewing deck called the Ledge offers a straight down look at the city from the 103rd ...