Sears Tower
About Sears Tower
The Willis Tower, formerly and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110-story, 1,451-foot (442.3 m) skyscraper in the Loop of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Designed by architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), it opened in 1973 as the world's tallest building, a title that it held for nearly 25 years. It is the third-tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, as well as the 26th-tallest in the world. Each year, more than 1.7 million people visit the Skydeck, the highest observation deck in the United States, making it one of Chicago's most popular tourist destinations. Due to its height and location, the tower is visible from a great distance. The building has appeared in numerous films and television shows set in Chicago.
On the show — 4 mentions total
There is a very old ASL symbol, which is having your forearm facing upwards and then doing the middle finger. That is the sign for the Sears Tower or the CN Tower in North America, those two big buildings.
from No Such Thing As Newsbite, 2022-06-02 at 00:21:11 · read transcript
Other times Sears Tower came up
They call themselves the most difficult sport that no one's ever heard of. It's basically, they have these events all over the world where they race up really tall buildings. The three main races are in the US, the Empire State Building Sears Tower and US Bank Tower. They have this, the big Facebook group, and they call each other stepbrothers and stepsisters, which is real clever. They take it super seriously.
211: No Such Thing As A Photograph Of A River, 2018-04-06 · listen
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Coordinates: 41.8789, -87.6358