Research Paper On The Willis Tower

Willis Tower. According to Willis tower “Willis Tower is the premier corporate office building in Chicago, more than 100 companies including prominent law, insurance, transportation and financial services”.Willis Tower is the tallest building in the western hemisphere and the 8th tallest building in the world standing at 1,450 feet tall. Willis tower has more than 4.5 million square feet. Willis Tower has a glass viewing platform on the 103 rd floor that extends almost four and a half feet off of the skyscraper it is all glass so you can look down and see the city of Chicago and four other states. More than one million seven hundred thousand people visit the platform each year. On a clear day, you can see up to 50 miles away.2. Magnificent
Millennium Park. According to millennium park “millennium park sits in a space previously occupied by a rail yard and parking lots. construction started in1998. Through a massive civil effort, generous private donations and six years of tireless work it ceremoniously opened July 14, 2004. Since the popularity and development of the area have contributed to millennium park becoming the 2nd most popular tourist attraction in Illinois navy pier is number 1”. Millennium park took six years to build construction started in 1998 and the park opened in 2004. There was a three-day grand opening ceremony and the ceremony had 300,000 visitors. Millennium Park has a sculpture that is well known by its nickname the bean, it’s actual name is cloud gate. There is a pavilion called jay Pritzker pavilion that has steel beams, a state of the art sound system and it can hold 11,000
Planetarium.According to alder planetarium”may 12th 1930 the alder planetarium opened may 12 1930, the alder planetarium, the first planetarium in the western hemisphere opened to the public. During the century of Progress world’s fair the alder planetarium attendance for the two year period was more than 1.2 million people”. During the solar eclipse, they have an exhibit where you can look up at the stars and the moon. every third Thursday of the month they have alder after dark where you can watch shows you have to be 21 or over. There is a place called Doane observatory, it has a huge telescope which you can see 5,000 times as much light as a normal human can see with their eye.there is an area called the Clark family welcome gallery with all kinds of lighting and 20,000 yards of