Culture of Chicago Shore Drive, Crown Hall, 330 North Wabash, and the Kluczynski Federal Building. The tallest buildings in Chicago are Willis Tower, Trump Tower, the Aon Center, 875 North Michigan Avenue, and the Franklin Center. Willis Tower was originally named Sears Tower, and was the tallest building in the world from 1973 to 1998. It is now the second-tallest building in the United States, after One World Trade Center, though the height to the roof of Willis Tower is greater than that of One World Trade Center. Other architecturally significant modern and postmodern skyscrapers in Chicago include the Inland Steel Building, Marina
Chicago Water Tower Pumping Station, it drew clean water from water cribs in Lake Michigan. The tower gained prominence after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. While some incorrectly believe that the tower was the only building to survive the fire, a few other buildings in the burned district survived along with the tower. The tower was the only public building in the burned zone to survive, and is one of just a few of the surviving structures still standing. In the years since the fire, the tower has become a symbol of old Chicago and of the city's recovery from the fire.