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The Willis Tower, originally and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110- story, 1,451-foot (442.3 m) skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed by architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), it opened in 1973 as the world's tallest ...
The Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex is a building complex in the community area of North Lawndale in Chicago, Illinois. The complex hosted most of department-store chain Sears ' mail order operations between 1906 and 1993, and it also served as Sears' corporate headquarters until 1973, when the Sears Tower was completed.
In 1906, Sears opened its catalog plant and the Sears Merchandise Building Tower in Chicago's West Side. [24] The building was the anchor of what would become the massive 40-acre (16 ha) Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex of offices, laboratories, and mail-order operations at Homan Avenue and Arthington Street.
1994 - Sears, Roebuck & Company sells the building to reduce its debt. 1996 - The Petronas Twin Towers surpass the Sears Tower in height to become the world’s tallest buildings at 1,483 feet each.
The tallest building in the city is the 110-story Willis Tower (also known as the Sears Tower), which rises 1,451 feet (442 m) in the Chicago Loop and was completed in 1974. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Sears Tower was the tallest building in the world upon its completion, and remained the tallest building in the United States until May 10, 2013. [ 4 ]
When planning for what was originally called Sears Tower — a name many still use — began, the company had 350,000 employees. Half of America’s households had a Sears credit card.
December 10, 2023 at 2:30 AM. To the casual shopper, Sears, one of America’s oldest retailers, may appear to be on life support. The department store chain that once reinvented how Americans ...
However, the Sears Tower had already been topped out in May 1973. [12] [13] When the Aon Center opened as the fourth-tallest completed building in the world, it was only exceeded in height by the twin towers of the original World Trade Center and the Empire State Building in New York City. [12]