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

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

The John Hancock Center and Sears Tower were constructed from steel out of South Works, a former steel mill located in the South Chicago neighborhood.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 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

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