Posted on 07/16/2009 12:58:43 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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 the history of the giant edifice that has dominated the Chicago skyline for nearly four decades.
Mayor Richard Daley unveiled the tower's new name on a large black sign in the lobby with the help of Joseph Plumeri, the Chairman and CEO of Willis Group Holdings, the London-based insurance broker that secured the naming rights as part of its agreement to lease 140,000 square feet of space in the building.
"We believe in Chicago," Plumeri said. "You will find over time that Willis is not going to just have its name on the building, it's going to have an impact in society, in the community."
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Good. After that Nakatomi rescue, I always thought Bruce Willis deserved a tower named after him.
I don’t think was was a political decision.
You can call a sow a ballerina but it doesn’t mean she can dance.
It’s the Sears Tower. It always will be.
Well deserved indeed, especially after all the beatings he has taken and targets he has sent to DirtNapLand, a real tribute to Chicago’s darker side..
Who could have predicted when they built that tower that Sears would fall as far and fast as they did.
when they ditched roebuck, it was over.
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Sears Tower? Where's that?
Oh you mean the WILLIS tower!
I’m old enough to remember when Sears and Roe started they didn’t have a buck to their name. Stolen from REDD FOXX, may he rest in peace!
Such as the Fannie Foxe Freeway aka Wilbur Mills Expressway?
Or the JOE ROBBIE stadium?
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