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2. Willis Tower - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. List of tallest buildings in Chicago - Wikipedia

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   [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] The second, third, and fourth-tallest buildings in Chicago are the Trump International Hotel & Tower, St Regis Chicago, and the Aon Center, respectively. Of the ten tallest buildings in ...

4. Landmark Center (Boston) - Wikipedia

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   The Landmark Center building was the last of a series of Sears distribution centers designed by George C. Nimmons, and was completed in 1928. [2] For nearly sixty years it served as a warehouse and distribution center for Sears, Roebuck and Company and offered local bargain-hunters an opportunity to obtain merchandise at below-catalog prices.

5. Willis Tower Fast Facts - AOL

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   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.

6. Blackstone Buying Former Sears Tower for $1.3 Billion - AOL

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   By Herbert Lash NEW YORK -- Blackstone Group (BX) agreed Monday to buy the Willis Tower, the former Sears Tower that for 25 years was the world's largest building, in a deal that features an ...

7. Stalled by legal battle, Hackensack may condemn Sears ... - AOL

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   As development of the landmark Sears Building has ... the building's façade and its 105-foot iconic tower be preserved. ... persistent illegal parking and dumping” and has accumulated an ...

8. John Hancock Center - Wikipedia

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   In 2002, the eastern antenna tower was extended to a height of 378 feet (115 metres) in order to enable WBBM-TV to add new digital antenna equipment at a height greater than the roof height of the Sears Tower (Willis Tower). Subsequently, the western antenna tower was reduced to a height of 285 feet (87 metres).

9. Sears Tower generates its own electricity - AOL

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