Synopsis

Each day, roughly twenty-three thousand people pass through the domed entrances of the Sears Tower. One hundred and four elevators—some with two levels—carry workers and visitors to its one hundred ten floors at speeds reaching up to sixteen hundred feet per minute, serving as the vertical arteries of North America’s tallest building. Sears, Roebuck and Company began modestly as a mail-order business in Chicago, blossoming by 1960 into the world's largest retailer. It was Sears Chairman Gordon M