1981: “Spider Dan” Goodwin scaled the Sears Tower, which was then the world’s tallest building. At least 200 people showed up ...

High-rises that make you gasp, like her latest creation, the 101-story St. Regis, a mixed-use building in Chicago. It is now the tallest building in the world designed by a woman. On the block is ...

This nearly $1 billion tower, the world’s tallest building designed by a woman, Jeanne Gang, brings new vigor to a ...

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in Chicago. “That begs the inevitable question then: What’s going to be the next new tallest building in the world? And I think the answer is, we don’t know,” he adds. “Initially it was ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 3, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. If Jenkins had his druthers ...

Getty One World Trade Center in New York City (left) and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (right). The tallest building in the United States is currently One World Trade Center in New York City.