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Willis! Sears! Willis! Sears! Willis! Sears! Whatcha Gonna Callit? — 5 Comments

  1. Great post of a great city, it seems to me. 🙂 Enjoyed reading it anyways.

    Regards,
    Lex.
    The Netherlands

  2. Haha, nice one! I do wonder why Willis thought they could just rename the Sears Tower and make it stick, when Chicago is a town that hangs onto its traditions. Plus, it\’s an icon. And they didn\’t build it! Which is basically the argument I make in my post about the Sears Tower (nuts to Willis) today. 😉

    • I\’m of two minds. I heard the head of Willis in an interview, and he said, \”I bought it, I get to name it,\” and that made sense to me. But then I go back and forth with it.

      I still call it Sears Tower, most of the time. ~shrug~ I\’m not 100% copasetic with people renaming things willy-nilly. It\’s like calling the Acropolis \”Coca Cola Acropolis,\” or something. Just wrong. Sears Tower is a monument to a company, and a history, that\’s uniquely Chicago\’s.

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