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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
David Roeder

Willis Tower transforms into friendly giant to keep drawing office workers

The entrance to the new Willis Tower food and retail offering called Catalog along Jackson Boulevard. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Willis Tower, since 1973 a brawny symbol of Chicago, is flexing its marketplace muscle, reasserting its relevance amid the changing nature of office work.

Blackstone, the tower’s owner, has made the 110-story building fit for a new era, spending $500 million to ensure it’s more hospitable to tenants and visitors alike. It involved a change in layouts and attitudes at a building that for decades was standoffish with its surroundings.

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