Getty Images has this crazy photo of lightning hitting the Willis Tower (formerly known as the Sears Tower) during a storm in Chicago on Wednesday. Read next Jump to ...

Sears, Roebuck and Co.’s announcement that it would build the world’s tallest building in downtown Chicago ... to the Willis Tower in 2009) later, former Tribune photographer Charles Osgood ...

Left photo: Sears Tower became the tallest building in Chicago, surpassing the John Hancock Center, seen in the background, when construction continued in November 1972. (Charles Osgood/Chicago ...

One such look began this month: a free exhibition of 25 large-scale photographs of the tower, made by architectural photographer ... the building that symbolized Chicago. Does the tower still ...

Left photo from @LWilz/Twitter ... last Sunday caused a building-wide power outage at Chicago's iconic 1,450 ft.-tall Willis Tower (aka Sears Tower), which has since loomed ominously over the ...

Just like in this scene from the 80s masterpiece Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Warning: Strong language), The Willis Tower (formerly The Sears Tower ... view of downtown Chicago's Loop.

Just like in this scene from the 80s masterpiece Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Warning: Strong language), The Willis Tower (formerly The Sears Tower ... view of downtown Chicago's Loop.