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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 ]
Tower building: Clock tower: Italy: Palazzolo sull'Oglio [49] 34: Springfield Campanille: 91.44 m (300.0 ft) 4: Yes: 1913: Freestanding Tower: Bell Tower (original) Clock & Bell Tower (current) USA: Springfield, Massachusetts: Currently not open to the public. With the addition of the clock now the third tallest freestanding clock tower in the ...
A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more (often four) clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a turret clock which often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large bells or chimes ...
333 South Wabash (formerly CNA Center, nicknamed "Big Red") now the "Northern Trust Tower" [2] is a 600-ft (183 m), 44-story skyscraper located at 333 South Wabash Avenue in the central business district of Chicago, Illinois.
900 North Michigan in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois, is a skyscraper completed in 1989. At 871 feet (265 m) tall, it is the eleventh tallest building in Chicago as of 2023 and the 59th-tallest in the United States.
One North Wacker, UBS Tower is a 50-story (199 m (653 ft)) skyscraper at One North Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The tower was built from 1999 to 2002 to accommodate Swiss investment bank UBS AG 's Chicago headquarters.
110 North Wacker, also known as the Bank of America Tower, [1] is a 57-floor skyscraper in Chicago located at 110 North Wacker Drive. [2] It was developed by the Howard Hughes Corporation and Riverside Investment & Development. [ 3 ]
The Sears Tower (now the Willis Tower) during its construction in 1973. Work on the building's foundation commenced in August 1970. Contractors excavated the lot to a depth of 50 feet (15 m), and they removed 180,000 cubic feet (5,100 m 3) of dirt from the site. [27]