# Sears Tower is now Willis Tower **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 12, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sears-tower-is-now-willis-tower/489234 "2009-03-12T18:17:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sears-tower-is-now-willis-tower/489234/7 "2009-03-16T03:40:12Z")
My cousin was visiting last week from \*\*Yerba Buena, \*\*and we decided to go from my house in \*\*Niles Center \*\*to go downtown to \*\*Marshall Field’s \*\*to get some tickets for a \*\*Reginald Dwight \*\*concert at \*\*Rosemont Horizon. \*\*My mom wanted us to take the train to \*\*North Western Station, \*\*but my dad’s in \*\*Constantinople \*\*this week so we thought it would be easier to just drive his \*\*Datsun \*\*downtown on the \*\*Northwest Expressway. \*\*My cousin wanted to see stuff along the lakefront, so we cut across \*\*Center Street \*\*so he could see the \*\*Playboy Building \*\* on \*\*Lincoln Park Boulevard \*\*and drove past \*\*Municipal Pier. \*\*When we got to \*\*Achsah Bond Drive, \*\*we realized we had gone too far, so we turned on \*\*12th Street \*\*over the **Illinois Central** tracks and finally found a parking space behind an \*\*Illinois Bell \*\*truck on \*\*Sherman Street \*\*. We walked up **Fifth Avenue** and caught a **Ravenswood** train around the **Poly Loop** to Field’s but the concert was sold out. We talked about going to a game at \*\*Comiskey Park, \*\*but decided to just go home, get some \*\*Mrs. Japp’s \*\*and watch it on **WNBQ.** During the game there was a news teaser that Sears Tower was changing it’s name and we were laughing about the stupid idea that anyone would ever call it by a new name. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sears-tower-is-now-willis-tower/489234)._