In 1974, Chicago sealed its reputation with the completion of the Sears Tower, then the world's biggest building.
Defying Mr Jones or Mr Daley would have been the political equivalent of diving off the Sears Tower.
Shechtman advised one Chicago salesman, who panicked each time he entered the Sears Tower, to start off meetings by admitting his fears.
Glimpse Brunelleschi's dome from the narrow streets of Florence and suddenly the behemoths of 20th-century architecture--the Sears Tower, the World Trade Center--shrink in importance.
That was surpassed when the World Trade Center arrived in 1973, but two years later, Chicago's Sears Tower became the tallest at 1, 454 feet.
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley had requested that the federal government institute a no-fly zone of at least five miles to protect the Sears Tower, the nation's tallest building.
Of the top 10 tallest buildings in the world right now, the only U.S. property is the Willis Tower (Sears Tower) in Chicago standing at 1, 451 feet.
Duffy and Donohue wanted its business, and so did Eurex of Frankfurt, the world's largest derivatives exchange, which set up a U.S. unit in the Sears Tower between Chicago's two exchanges.
Even the designers and owners of the Sears Tower did not include the antennae in its announced height (at least not until their 23-year-old record was challenged by the Malaysian structure).
Forty Chicago technology companies and 250 individuals pay for round-theclock access to common areas and huddle rooms within 25, 000 square feet on the 15th floor of a skyscraper across from the Sears Tower.
Up at the viewing platform of the Willis (formerly Sears) Tower, the staff are used to movie stars wandering around.
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