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
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
In the photo the flat-surfaced building on the left is the 108-story Sears Tower.
From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2016
As long as I can find the Sears Tower, I know I can’t get lost.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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