The+Willis+Tower

__The Willis Tower__ The Willis tower is a sky scrapper in Chicago, IL. It is one of the tallest buildings in the world (Building Info). It is a very beautiful building and racks in many tourists every year. It wasn’t always called the Willis tower its name was changed in 2009 (Willis Tower). It’s original name was the sears tower. This building is an icon of the United States (Willis Tower). __What is the size of It?__ The Willis Tower is 110 stories and is over 1, 450 feet tall (Building Info). That’s one really big building! It is so tall that if you stand on the top floor you can see the curve of the earth (Building Info). This building also weighs over 220,500 tons and was a whopping 175 million dollars to build this huge block of steel (Building Info). The building itself is used mostly for office. It has 3.8 million square feet of office which is equivlant to 16 blocks of Chicago (Willis Tower). That’s a lot of office! __The Skydeck__ The Willis tower also has a skydeck in the 103rd floor (Skydeck). This skydeck can move inside and outside of the building and extends about 4.3 feet outside of the building (Skydeck). When standing in the skydeck you are more than 1353 feet above ground (Skydeck). Since Chicago is called the windy city this skydeck can withstand 125 mph of winds without an damage done to it (Skydeck). This skydeck just opened about a year ago and attracts up to 1.3 million visitors a year (Skydeck).


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