Eye Candy: New Renderings of the Willis Tower Renovation
EQ Office continues its half-billion dollar renovation of Chicago’s tallest building from a place exclusively for office workers and tourists into something more integrated with the evolving neighborhood. To that end, it is including a new food court in Willis Tower’s new retail space, expected to open in 2020. That Gensler-designed retail space is now called “Catalog,” an acknowledgement of Sears, the...
Getting Around Willis Tower Getting Faster
Getting around Chicago can sometimes be agonizingly slow. No one wants to be stuck in traffic on the 151 bus when they’re going to a job interview. Perhaps more frustrating, when you get to the location for your next gig, is having to wait forever for an elevator. That could happen less at Chicago’s tallest building, because the Willis Tower’s elevator system is getting a speed-enhancing overhaul. (You only get to...
