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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Sears Tower

My parents and my grandmother could be precise when it mattered — say, when my father, a structural engineer, conducted a total stress-test analysis of the Sears Tower, as it was known then.

From New York Times ● May 18, 2022

Hoffman Estates has been home to Sears’ corporate headquarters since 1992, when the company left its namesake Sears Tower in downtown Chicago before selling the skyscraper, now the Willis Tower, two years later.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 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

High up in the Sears Tower, management couldn’t see that the retail landscape was changing.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 17, 2018

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