Do you like the Sears Tower?

[pokerfan]

[Mr. Ected]

1. It's name was just changed TODAY

To the Willis Tower, after the British insurance group which is now the building's chief tenant.

Chicagoans are not happy:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1bbe6a04-726a-11de-ba94-00144feabdc0.html

[pokerfan]

4. Was it really?

Oh noes, my Chicago friends will not be happy!

[mix]

2. No, I prefer the John Hancock Building on Michigan...by far.

[grace0418]

3. The view is better from the Hancock too.

I prefer the building as well.

[lizerdbits]

5. I went out on those new clear platforms on the 103rd floor on Monday

during a train layover. I was a little nervous at first, but it's cool once you step out there. Their pre-elevator ride movie noted the name change.

[mix]

6. that looks fun !

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. We lived at Clark and Armitage,

and had a great view of the Loop. We loved the Hancock building, of course, but we watched the Sears tower go up, and somewhere around here I have a photograph I took of our view from the living room - we lived on the 15th floor, looking south - with a little TV set in front of the balcony window, with the Sears Tower on the TV screen, and in the background, in real life.

It was topped off that day.

I gotta find that photograph - it's just so cool.

Changing its name? Yeah, right.

Chicagoans will never call it anything but the Sears Tower. Neither will I. That name-changing thing stinks.........................

[surrealAmerican]

8. I see it every day (except when it's too cloudy).

Not the prettiest skyscraper in the US, but at least it's the tallest.

[jclincali]

9. No. Eyesore in one of America's ugliest cities.