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.
Crain's Chicago Business | Thomas A. Corfman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Chicago
The Daley administration is coughing up an additional $10 million to entice the parent of United Airlines to move its operations center downtown from ...
Crain's Chicago Business | Eddie Baeb | Posted 09.06.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Richard M. Daley says the city's proposed $24-million subsidy to help bring 2,800 United Airlines employees downtown is warranted because of the...
Chicago Sun-Times | DAVID ROEDER AND FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 09.06.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Daley is strapped for cash to run city government, but he has a rich money pot to subsidize private development downtown....
Crain's Chicago Business | Thomas A. Corfman and Eddie Baeb | Posted 08.23.2009 | Chicago
The parent company of United Airlines is in talks with the Daley administration and the owners of the recently renamed Willis Tower about moving a 2,8...
Chicago Sun-Times | DAVID ROEDER | Posted 08.22.2009 | Chicago
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...
AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 08.16.2009 | Chicago
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 ...
AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 08.15.2009 | Chicago
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...
AP | Posted 08.01.2009 | Chicago
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 ...
AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 07.25.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Wind turbines, roof gardens and solar panels will join the pair of antennas atop the Sears Tower's staggered rooftops, said building o...
Chicago Tribune | Becky Yerak | Posted 07.08.2009 | Chicago
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...
Crain's Chicago Business | Posted 06.12.2009 | Chicago
Willis Group Holdings Ltd. is seeking a $3.8-million city subsidy to pay for build-out of its new headquarters at Sears Tower, which will soon be rena...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.01.2009 | Chicago
The view from atop the nation's tallest building is about to get even better. In June the Sears Tower will open a glass-bottom sky deck as part of a ...
Edward Lifson | Posted 04.16.2009 | Home
The Willis Tower? I don't think so, pal. Some London-based company wants to rename our tower and Mayor Daley is going to let them? What has happened to our city?
Michael Roston | Posted 04.12.2009 | Chicago
Wrigley, Sears, and Marshall Field's were all old money. But they were old Chicago money, a sign of how this unique place had emerged where once there was a swamp that stunk of wild onions.
AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 04.12.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — For Chicagoans it may be the architectural equivalent of having to watch Michael Jordan finish his career in a Washington Wizards unif...
Brian Dickie | Posted 11.22.2009 | Chicago