Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 25, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. The burned out shell of a Green ...

1979: At the start of Memorial Day weekend, 271 people aboard American Airlines Flight 191 died after ... seventh MLB pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters in the Chicago Cubs’ 2-1 loss at San ...

1981: “Spider Dan” Goodwin scaled the Sears Tower, which was then the ... became the seventh MLB pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters in the Chicago Cubs’ 2-1 loss at San Diego.

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 3, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. If Jenkins had his druthers ...

The Gourmet Room, at one time a five-star French restaurant, looks like a flying saucer on the roof. The last hotel guests checked out in 2008 ... Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) and the ...

Willis Tower—originally known as the Sears Tower—was the world ... when measured from the 103rd-floor windows of the Skydeck observatory and the Ledge, a glass-enclosed box which juts more than four ...

The combination of steep hills and tall buildings in the city itself is perfect for vertical combat, like clearing bombed out rooms ... in Willis Tower (previously called Sears Tower), the third ...

Chicago’s greatest cultural export just might be improvised theater — an art form that was devised by a woman named Viola Spolin — who wasn’t out for laughs ... since Willis Tower opened in 1973: its ...

She also says there is no timeline for sending out the ... The 82-story Chicago tower has undulating terraces and glass with a fritted pattern that break window reflections so confusing to birds.

The painting has not been on display in the galleries in nearly a decade… though it has been lent out ... fly over Chicago during the fall migration season, and a number of them die after being ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- ABC7 Chicago installed a new antenna on top of the Willis Tower Sunday morning. Chopper 7 captured the process. Another helicopter lifted the 5,500-pound, 32-foot antenna up to ...

For many, however, the Tower wasn’t just an entity of Sears, but rather something the entire city had a stake to from the moment it took its place on the Chicago ... you clock out, you go ...