Between 1974 and 1996, the Sears Tower was the tallest building in the world. Its statistics are correspondingly impressive: 1,453 feet tall, 110 stories, 225,000 tons, 106 elevators, 502,320 square yards in surface area. A firmly anchored concrete platform and nine square 75-foot thick steel tubes give the skyscraper its stability.
Visitors can speed up to [...]
This museum ranks high on the list of Chicago’s attractions because of the interactive presentation of science and technology that help make a visit a “hands-on experience” in the true sense of the word.
Among other things, visitors can board a model of a World War II submarine, walk down a reconstructed street from around 1900, [...]
100 stories, rising 1,127 feet skyward, have earned the John Hancock Building, built in 1870, the nickname “Big John”.
This government building is among the most controversial of Chicago’s modern buildings. Completed in 1985 by Helmut Jahn, the 17-story round glass structure has been ridiculed for looking like a crash-landed spaceship.
