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Chicago River Archetectural Tour - Part 6 (2015) - Short (Documentary)    Took a Chicago River Tour which was narrated from an archetectural perspective.  I really learned all about the stories behind the buildings on the river.  Really fascinating.    Director:  Eric Louzil

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00:00...pictures up here of the curbs of River City with the angles, the straight up and down lines of the taller buildings.

00:09So I want a little audience participation here. I want to ask, the tallest building, that black building, who wants me to call that Willis Tower?

00:17Who wants me to call it Sears Tower? Yay!

00:21I used to work on the 83rd floor there, and I lived up on the northwest side of Chicago

00:27when it was going up and we could see it being built. It was the first time in our neighborhood we could see something in downtown.

00:34So for me, it's much more natural to call it Sears Tower.

00:38It was built in 1974 for Sears, but they moved out in the 90s and sold the building and their naming rights expired about seven years ago.

00:48So the new owners sold the naming rights to the Willis Company, which is an insurance brokerage based in London.

00:55And there's a funny story. Someone who worked at Willis told me the company really wanted their name on the tallest building in Chicago

01:02because the second tallest building in Chicago at the time was the Aon Center, and Aon is...

Chicago River Archetectural Tour - Part 6 (2015) - Short (Documentary)

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