1981: “Spider Dan” Goodwin scaled the Sears Tower, which was then the world’s tallest building. At least 200 people showed up ...

A party atmosphere prevailed as a Memorial Day crowd watched Dan Goodwin climb the Sears Tower on May 25, 1981. “We’re just nursing a hangover. We didn’t have anything else to do,” said ...

The climber, who identified himself in a flyer as Dan Goodwin, a.k.a. SpiderDan, was greeted by police as he reached a balcony two floors below the top of the 60-story Millennium Tower at 301 ...

Daniel Goodwin, the chairman and CEO of Inland Real ... began rehabbing houses as moonlighting schoolteachers. "I think Dan picked people — I don't want to get too religious about it — like ...

At least 200 people showed up to watch the 25-year-old Goodwin, clad in a blue-and-orange suit, scale the west side of the building using suction cups and a “home-welded claw,” the Tribune ...

It’s still the deadliest passenger airline accident on U.S. soil. 1981: “Spider Dan” Goodwin scaled the Sears Tower, which was then the world’s tallest building. At least 200 people showed ...