The Willis Tower has long been an attraction to tourists hoping to smash their foreheads against the Skydeck glass windows to get an aerial view of downtown Chicago's Loop. The Ledge was ...

From Atop Sears Tower, A Ledge With A View A new ledge opens at the Sears Tower Skydeck in Chicago. The enclosed glass box extends 4 feet from the building and allows visitors to stare 1,353 feet ...

This summer, the Sears Tower plans to add four enclosed glass-bottomed balconies jutting out from the building's 103rd-floor Skydeck -- offering a view of 1,353 feet down.

The Sears Tower, right, begins to take shape in downtown Chicago in the early 1970s. Workers take in the view from the 80th floor of the Sears Tower under construction on November 6, 1972. The ...

This summer, Sears Tower will have a new face to match its new name. Although Chicagoans are less than thrilled about Willis Group Holdings moving in, the new view atop “Willis Tower” may ...

Dear Abby: In a conversation with a friend, the question arose, “What is the world’s tallest building?”I told him, “The Sears Tower in Chicago.”He said there’s a building in Toronto ...

CHICAGO -- Yesterday, while on a day trip in Chicago, my family and I squeezed into a packed elevator and rode 103 floors -- that’s 1,353 feet -- to the top of the Sears Tower, 233 S. Wacker Dr.

The Sears Tower is disappearing. Not the building, but the name. This month, the 110-story Chicago landmark, the tallest building in the country, will be renamed the Willis Tower, after the London ...

The Willis Tower has long been an attraction to tourists hoping to smash their foreheads against the Skydeck glass windows to get an aerial view of downtown Chicago's Loop. The Ledge was ...