Timeline

2019 Catalog Renovation Opened. New Jackson Street and Skydeck entrance
2019 LEED Platinum designation

2018

> 12,000 occupants
> 25,000 daily visitors
1.7M tourists to Skydeck annually

2015 Purchased by Blackstone for $1.3B

2009 Renamed Willis Tower. Skydeck Ledge installed

2000 Skydeck renovation

1998 Petronas Towers, KL becomes tallest building

1994 Sears moves headquarters to Hoffman Estates Campus

1984 TV and radio antenna added
New atrium. Alexander Calder mobile installed

1974 Skydeck opens. Highest observation deck in US

1973/4 Construction completed/Opening
Tallest Building in the World until 1998

1970 Groundbreaking

The Building

Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM): Bruce Graham and Falzur Khan

Bundled Tube Design

2 Tubes Floors 91-100
5 Tubes Floors 67-90
7 Tubes Floors 51-66
9 Tubes Floors 1-50

Sway 6-inches from true center
Designed to sway up to 3-feet

1970-1973/4 construction

443 Meters, 1454 Feet

110 Floors
104 Elevators

2000 Construction Workers

2019 LEED Platinum designation

Timeline

1888 mail order 

Richard Warren Sears (founding-1908)

Mail order watches and jewelry

1893 Alva C Roebuck

Julius Rosenwald. President (1908-1922) Chari-1932

1906 Sears IPO: S . Dow Jones (1924-1999)
HQ Tower in Lawndale

1925 First Retail Store, at warehouse/HQ in Lawndale neighborhood

1967-1973 Gordon Metcalf, Chairman and CEO

1984-1995  Edward Brennan, CEO

1993 Catalog discontinued

2005 Sears purchased by Eddie Lampert
Merge with KMart

2018 Files for bankruptcy
2019 Out of bankruptcy

2022 Close many retail stores and all Auto centers
There are no Sears stores within 100 miles of Chicago