Sears Tower
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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
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
Rukavina worked on the installation of the skyscraper’s original antennas in the 1970s, back when it was known as the Sears Tower, then the world’s tallest building.
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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