From strip mall to shining strip mall, America is now a nation of suburbs, a country where there are more jobs and people in the towns and villages that ring central cities than in the cities ...

The last Sears store in Chicago will be closing its doors this summer. As the company’s Chicago legacy comes to an end, Crain’s Chicago Business reporter Dennis Rodkin gives a chronology of ...

Meanwhile, the former Sears Administration Building stands at five stories and features 280,558 total square feet of space with large floor plates that stretch nearly a block long.

There is no greater monument to the scale of Sears at its height than the 1,451-foot, 110-story tower it erected in Chicago. When Sears Tower opened in 1973, it was the world’s tallest building ...

Sears opened its first-ever store in Chicago 93 years ago. ... The Six Corners store opened on Oct. 20, 1938. A $1-million building designed by Chicago architecture firm Nimmons, ...

CHICAGO — For Chicagoans it may be the architectural equivalent of having to watch Michael Jordan finish his career in a Washington Wizards uniform: The Sears Tower is turning into ...

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 in a downtown ceremony, marking a new chapter in ...