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WATCH: OEMC: 'No Credible Threat' Of Terrorist Attack In Chicago On 9/11 Anniversary

Posted 11.09.2011

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Chicago emergency officials said Thursday there is "no credible threat" of a terrorist attack in Chicago on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, but a...

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Chicago's Skyscraper Reign Coming To An End

Chicago News Cooperative | DANIEL LIBIT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Buildings, Chicago Skyscrapers, Chicago Architecture, Willis Tower, Sears Tower, Chicago News

Chicago is facing another Second City moment: It soon will not be able to boast about having the tallest building in America. After nearly four dec...

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United Airlines Moves To Willis Tower

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — United Airlines has started moving its operations center employees into a new home – the Willis Tower in Chicago, formerly known...

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Sears Vs. Willis: Whose Sculpture Is It?

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Sears may have moved out of its tower in downtown Chicago, but the company now wants to buy back a motorized sculpture in the building...

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WATCH: George W. Bush Praises Mayor Daley In Chicago

Posted 05.25.2011

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Former President George W. Bush made a stop in Chicago Thursday to promote his new book, "Decision Points" and get some face time with Mayor Daley. ...

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PHOTOS: Chicago Mag Names Best Buildings In Chicago

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Magazine, Chicago Real Estate, Chicago Buildings, Mies Van Der Rohe, Chicago Architecture, Sears Tower, Daniel Burnham, Slidepollajax, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Hancock Center, Chicago News

For months, Chicago magazine has been running "Top 40" lists to celebrate their 40th anniversary and highlight the best Chicago films, music, art and ...

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Willis Tower Windows Broken By Rooftop Pebbles, Officials Say

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Chicago officials say white pebbles spread on rooftops to reflect sunlight are to blame for some broken high-rise windows in last week...

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WORST Corporate Rebrandings (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Sara Yin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chevrolet, Aol, Logos, Car Ads, Rebranding, Xe, Willis Group Holdings, Chevy Ads, Sears Tower, Chevy, Marketing, General Motors, Radio Shack, Blackwater, Brinks, Slidepollajax, Phillip Morris, GMAC Bailout, Business News

General Motors may have backed off a "poorly worded" memo demanding employees call Chevy by its more refined name, Chevrolet, but the company's market...

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My Love Letter to LEGO

Jonathan Bender | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Toys, Star Wars, Sears Tower, Indiana Jones, Lego, Central Park, Collecting, Ipad, Barney's, Okay Go, Healthy Living News

Seeing as there are 62 plastic bricks for every person on earth, the odds are good that you know somebody who is an adult LEGO fan. In fact, you might be one without even knowing it.

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Willis Tower Owner Sued Over Derailed 'Greening' Project

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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A lawsuit against a co-owner of Willis Tower raises questions about whether it will follow through on a $350 million project to reduce the building's ...

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Bruce Graham Dies: Willis Tower, Hancock Center Architect Dies At Age 84

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Bruce J. Graham, the pioneering architect who designed the iconic Chicago skyscraper formerly named the Sears Tower, has died. He was ...

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One Worker Killed, Another Injured In Construction Accident Downtown

CBS 2 Chicago | Posted 05.25.2011

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One worker was killed and another was critically injured following an accident involving a gas main this afternoon right outside the Willis Tower. ...

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Ellen DeGeneres Flag Will Remain On Willis Tower For A Week

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ellen Show, Willis Tower, Oprah, Chicago's Tallest Building, Ellen Flag, Ellen Degeneres, Sears Tower, Video, Chicago News

In a quest for world domination, Ellen DeGeneres came to Chicago's tallest building and proclaimed: "laugh.dance.conquer"--well, in flag form at least...

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Lessons Learned From the Olympic Fiasco

Tom Tresser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mayor Daley, 2016 Olympics, No Games Chicago, Chicago 2016, Sears Tower, Todd Stroger, International Olympic Committee, Ioc, Chicago Budget, Cook County Board, Cook County Board President Race, Willis Tower Tifs, Tifs, Chicago Corruption, Chicago News

If citizens want to be protected from bad government and further rip-offs, we are going to have to rise to a new level of involvement. I have little hope that our elected representatives will truly represent us.

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Chicago's Living River

Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chinatown, Michigan Avenue, Chicago-Water-Taxi, Willis Tower, Sears-Tower, Chicago River, Tourism, Skyscrapers, Chicago News

I have been in Chicago for ten years and had never been in Chinatown before. A trip on the water taxi there is lovely and relaxing.

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Hancock Building Keeping Its Name After Sears Tower Rebranding

Chicago Sun-Times | DAVID ROEDER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chicago's Sears Tower has morphed, officially at least, into Willis Tower, ak a "the Big Willie." In 2001, the old Standard Oil Building, ak a "Big St...

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Willis Tower Becomes Official: Sears Tower Renamed

AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — The Sears Tower, one of the world's iconic skyscrapers and the tallest building in the U.S., was renamed the Willis Tower on Thursday ...

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Sears Tower Becomes Willis Tower Thursday

AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Sports fans have dealt with it for years: a favorite team sells the naming rights to its stadium in a lucrative, if unsentimental, mon...

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SEARS TOWER 103RD FLOOR Glass Balcony Holds Spectacular And Terrifying View

The Post Chronicle | Posted 05.25.2011

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From The Post Chronicle: Chicago's Sears Tower 103rd floor balcony unveiled - The view from the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere just got...

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Sears Tower Opens Glass Ledge On 103rd Floor Skydeck (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Visitors to the Sears Tower's new glass balconies all seem to agree: The first step is the hardest. "It's like walking on ice," said ...

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From Tallest to Most Efficient

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business News, Sustainability, Sears Tower, Leed, Green Buildings, Chicago, Green News

The owners of the Sears Tower have announced plans to upgrade the building for sustainability, which will make it the tallest building in the western hemisphere to undergo such an overhaul to date.

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Sears Tower Getting $350M Green Overhaul, New Hotel

AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Wind turbines, roof gardens and solar panels will join the pair of antennas atop the Sears Tower's staggered rooftops, said building o...

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Willis Group CEO Talks Sears Tower Name Change, TIF Money

Chicago Tribune | Becky Yerak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sears Tower, Willis Tower, Willis Group Holdings, Joe Plumeri, Sears Tower Tif, Chicago News

Now publicly traded, Willis asked for and received $3.8 million in tax-increment financing from the city to redevelop the Sears Tower space. "It's go...

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Spiderman Alain Robert Arrested In Sydney For Climbing 41-Story Building (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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SYDNEY (AP) - A French skyscraper climber nicknamed "Spiderman" was arrested Tuesday after scaling a 41-story building in downtown Sydney with his bar...

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Sears Tower Bombing Plot: 5 Of 6 Convicted Of Planning To Blow Up Sears Tower, FBI Offices

AP | CURT ANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorism, Liberty City Six, Sears Tower, Sears Tower Plot, Sears Tower Bombing Plot, Sears Tower Plot Trial, Liberty City Six Trial, Al Qaeda, Chicago News

MIAMI — It took three trials, three juries and nearly three years, but federal prosecutors finally succeeded Tuesday in convicting five Miami me...

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