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Sears Tower

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  1. A skyscraper in Chicago that was the tallest building in the world until the construction of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.


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For Sears, the segue to new uses is perhaps most pronounced in its hometown, Chicago, where for decades the tallest building was Sears Tower.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2021

To Chicagoans, the distinctive skyscraper that dominates the skyline will always be the Sears Tower, no matter that it was renamed the Willis Tower in 2009.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2021

There’s Rukavina, in a photo on the front page of the Tribune on Dec. 15, 1973, atop the Sears Tower.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 17, 2018

In the photo the flat-surfaced building on the left is the 108-story Sears Tower.

From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2016

It's like they took the whole huge, black Sears Tower, broke it up into short chunks, painted it with friendlier suburban colors, and then spread it out over two hundred acres of farmland.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

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