Sears Tower

Since that time, Sears Tower has become the destination for millions of world tourists and a daily center of work and commerce for thousands of Chicagoans. Sears Tower has also served as a frequent backdrop to numerous groundbreaking films from Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) to The Fugitive (1993), it has been scaled by such daring acrobats as Spider Dan (1981) and Alain "Spiderman" Robert (1998), it has been a highlight of media controversy in response to the CTBUH (1997), it has been a center of preparations for making Chicago HDTV capable (2000), it has been placed on the city's list of focal points for protecting against terrorism (2003), and most recently it has been cited as a prospective new headquarters for the U.S. Olympic Committee (2008). Sears Tower truly is both a distinguished landmark and a principal engineering accomplishment of the modern age — and in following the human quest to reach ever higher, Sears Tower continues to astound and marvel its visitors to this da