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Written by:host
3/17/2009 1:41 PM 

Sears  

March 13, Chicago

The Sears name isn't just a tack-on. It stands for something: A fabled part of Chicago's history as a great mercantile center. The building's architecture reflects that past: It is strong, solid, democratic. Its flat roof and bare-boned exterior put on no airs, as New York's high-life Jazz Age skyscrapers do. The name, in other words, is inseparable from the skyscraper's-and Chicago's-identity...more

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