Manhattan by the construction of the Willis Tower in 1974 (formerly known as the Sears Tower, located in Chicago). One World Trade Center, a replacement for the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, is currently the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. In 1961, the Pennsylvania Railroad unveiled plans to tear down the old Penn Station and replace it with a new Madison Square Garden and office building complex. Organized protests were aimed at preserving the McKim, Mead & White-designed structure completed in 1910, widely considered a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style and one of the architectural jewels of New
Library Tower (Chicago) Library Tower (Chicago) Library Tower Chicago is located on 520 S. State Street, Chicago, Illinois, which is the block directly south of the main branch of the Chicago Public Library in the Loop community area. Currently (4/2009) the building has 184 Units. 52 units have been sold and closed. Another 36 are under contract. Apparently, the building was mostly sold unit the economy forced investors to pull out of the building, leaving it largely unsold. Units have been on sale since 2005, with closing first occurring in 2008. There has been substantial price drops from being on the market (1