Anyone know the story with the Sears Tower's western antenna?

How long has it been truncated like this?


https://i.postimg.cc/L6mtHfDb/PXL-20...95635695-2.jpg

Looking through the photos on my iPhone it appears as though they started disassembling the antenna sometime in November of 2022 and by March 2023 it was gone. . .

. . .

^ oh, so it's already been roughly a year.

Thanks!


I wonder if they'll ever get more evened up again.

What are some good places to get a gym shoe sandwich?

I see Baba's famous lemonade( a chain) offers it. Ive had other good sandwiches from there but never the jim shoe. The only downside is most of those locations are in the hood so you might have to have it delivered or drive down there.

I've never had it, but supposedly Stony Sub is the place to go.

Cicada-geddon is turning out to be a total bust in Lincoln Square.

I have yet to see a single one.

My kids are quite bummed after all the hype.

Nothing in Ukranian Village either. I've been walking & biking in Humboldt Park as well in search of them, but nothing there either. The near western burbs are absolutely buzzing with them though. I was in Oak Park/River Forest/Riverside this past weekend, and they have absolutely taken over :haha:

I figure since in the spring the city is typically 3-5 degrees cooler than in the suburbs, we might be a few weeks behind in terms of cicada emergence, since they determine when to come out based on soil temperate. Time will tell I suppose.

I was walking with my daughter in her stroller when one almost flew in there. I was slightly aghast, until I swatted it away...those suckers are not THAT fast :haha:

No sightings for me yet either in the loop or Hyde Park...

I read somewhere (can't find the link now,) that if your area of Chicagoland doesn't see any cicada emergence by next week, then it's likely not gonna happen at all. Apparently, they never travel more than like 50 feet from where they emerge.

On a hopeful note, a friend who lives over in Jeff park told me they have now taken over in his neighborhood.

Here in Lincoln Square, the days are ticking away......

Umm....... WTF?

https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/...ago-this-year/

Somehow, I'm sure BJ was involved in this decision :haha:

I think this is every year. Unless the 4th is on a Wed or Saturday there will not be fireworks on the 4th. I think Rahm even skipped them one year to show some belt tightening as the city began to face fiscal headwinds.

First no cicadas.

Now no fireworks.

Cruel summer.

I moved the posts about the Texas stock exchange to the thread about that topic in city discussions.

Please continue there: https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=259124

Go to the beach.... That's where I saw my first one this past weekend. It tried to crawl up my back and I still have PTSD.

Makes sense given there's much more room for them to burrow, etc without urban disturbances.

Apparently riot fest has now been moved back to Douglas Park.

God only knows why that was so hard.

Lol, will moving Heaven and Earth mean the Sox become good?

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/05...b-fan-reports/

Not that this is anything but tangentially on topic in the most basic of ways but it made me crack a smile when the thought popped up. On a Chicago photo thread a couple years back someone was talking about a friend who was NY born and raised, never left the city.

As a kid he took a school field trip to Boston and knew Boston as another big east coast city, NY - Boston rivalry looming large in his mind but upon entering the Boston he asked when are we gonna get to Boston? The scale of the cities was so different that the kid thought coming into central Boston he was entering a suburb or something. Years later as a young adult he comes to Chicago and says ah this is a real city not quite NY but NY on Valium.

I feel like the Boston from that school kid’s story sometimes looking at Chicago putting up 600-700 footers rain or shine, seismic economic shift or not, media fixation on the city as Afghanistan brought to America or not. Chicago keeps on building gotta respect that.