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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 ...
Photo by Chris Trainor. A site that once housed a Walmart near downtown Columbia is now set to be a warehouse for computer-related uses. The Walmart location at 1326 Bush River Road in Columbia ...
Merchandise Mart. / 41.8884; -87.6355. The Merchandise Mart (or the Merch Mart, or the Mart) is a commercial building in downtown Chicago, Illinois. When it opened in 1930, it was the world's largest building, with 4 million square feet (372,000 m 2) of floor space. [ 1][ 2] The Art Deco structure is at the junction of the Chicago River 's ...
The 1909 address change did not affect downtown Chicago, between the river and Roosevelt Road, the river and Lake Michigan. The ordinance was amended June 20, 1910 to include the downtown area. The new addresses for the “loop” went into use on April 1, 1911. Chicago house numbers are generally assigned at the rate of 800 to a mile.
Chicago is exploring the idea of creating a city-owned grocery store to address food inequity after several grocery giants, including Walmart and Whole Foods, have shuttered stores in the city.
Wal-Mart's battle to breach big cities is actually beginning to bear fruit. The behemoth's years-long attempt to open stores in Chicago is finally progressing. Wal-Mart is moving ahead with plans ...
This is a list of bus routes operated by the Chicago Transit Authority. In 2023, the CTA bus system had a ridership of 161,699,200, or about 530,600 per weekday as of the first quarter of 2024. Routes running 24 hours a day, seven days a week are: The N4 (between 63rd/Cottage Grove and Washington/State only), N9 (between 95th/Dan Ryan (Red) and ...
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