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More than 2,000 people climbed more than 1,300 feet to the highest point in Chicago on Sunday, all for a good cause.
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More than 2,000 people climbed more than 1,300 feet to the highest point in Chicago on Sunday, all for a good cause.
Since 1974, thousands of tourists have scaled to the top of the Willis Tower to step over the ledge and learn more about Chicago’s history.
To help celebrate, you're invited to a big birthday bash featuring food, music, and special Chicago guests.
If you're from Chicago and you're older than 30, you once knew the tall and iconic building composed of bundled tubes at 233 S. Wacker Dr. as the Sears Tower – and as the tallest building in the world.
"This is like a big erector set. You see it built from the ground up which is very cool."
The Sears Tower was the world's tallest building until 1996, when it was surpassed by the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
CBS 2's Dana Kozlov takes a look at what you get for all that cash.
Many know Chicago is known as "the Windy City" and Wrigley Field is one of America's oldest baseball stadiums, but there are a lot of other things about this great city that are not widely known.
Ditka is binary, obtuse and a caricature.
The Willis Tower on Tuesday lost the title of the tallest building in the United States to the new World Trade center in New York.
Apple's new map application has been getting widespread bad reviews, and it misses the mark on some key spots in Chicago.
United Airlines headquarters will soon be contained within one iconic Chicago address.
Depending on how you figure, the Willis Tower could be about to lose bragging rights as the nation's tallest building once the skyscraper at New York's Ground Zero is completed.
The Willis Tower is tall! Just... you know... so you know. Why not take a trip up to its Skydeck to get a real grasp of how big this behemoth building is?
Are you from the far flung reaches of Chicago's suburbs and, like me, afraid to take the Metra? It's okay, you can admit it, the Metra confuses me too. Don't worry though! We'll figure that giant, metal, moving monster out together!
The Willis Tower is reportedly hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, and its owners are looking for help.
With a series incentives set to expire next year, retail giant Sears Roebuck and Co. is considering whether to move from it's headquarters in Hoffman Estates.
Fire crews rushed to the Willis Tower this morning, but reports of a fire and smoke turned out to be unfounded.
Even tourists who are willing to brave the wind on Tuesday won't be able to see the views from the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
The current owners of the Willis Tower are in a nasty legal battle with the former owners.
