Bartender Jimmy Wilson owned and operated Woodlawn Tap for 51 years, from 1948 until he died in 1999, and became so associated with the bar that patrons called it by his name rather than the name on the window. Tell Hyde Parkers “Let’s meet at Jimmy's,” and they’ll know you’re talking about Woodlawn Tap, the 55th Street watering hole. To avoid confusion, the restaurant listed itself under both names in the telephone book. According to Nick’s daughter, who inherited the place, it was because Nick was just around more, you know. This Ashburn pizza joint is officially named Vito & Nick’s, after the father and son who founded it in 1932, but it’s just as commonly known as Nick & Vito’s. I-94 South: The Bishop Ford Freeway (formerly the Calumet Expressway) Vito & Nick's Pizza But here in Chicago, we don’t use numbers - we use names. Department of Transportation has assigned numbers to all the roadways on the federal interstate highway system. “I call it ‘The Bean,’ too.” All the expressways “It’s great for it to have a colloquial name, it’s own lingo,” Kapoor told the Sun-Times in 2017. The nickname “The Bean,” he said at the time, was “completely stupid.” Kapoor formally named his work Cloud Gate, but eventually came to accept popular nomenclature. When sculptor Anish Kapoor was constructing his mirrored sculpture in Millennium Park, he was not amused by its comparisons to a legume. The following year, Chicago magazine’s Geoffrey Johnson ranked the tower 10th in his list of “Top 40 Buildings in Chicago,” writing, “The city’s giant is an engineering marvel - and I will never, ever, refer to it as the Willis.” Cloud Gate Sears sold the building in 1994, and the Willis Group, a London-based insurance brokerage, bought the naming rights in 2009. (Sears can’t even keep a store open at Lawrence and Wolcott. When the Sears Tower was completed, in 1973, it was the world’s tallest building, and its namesake company was America’s biggest retailer. Some are well known, others so little known that the informal name long ago replaced the formal name in neighborhood nomenclature.
Whether it’s stubbornness, tradition, or a distaste for the practice of selling naming rights to the city’s most recognizable structures, Chicagoans refuse to use the “real” names of a lot of places in this town. Tourist: “You know - the second-tallest building in the country.”Ĭhicagoan: “Oh, you mean the Sears Tower.”
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Tourist: “Can you tell me how to get to the Willis Tower observation deck?” Talk about bad PR.There’s no better way to feel like a local than using a term that doesn’t appear on maps or in tourist brochures. "We are actually not having to pay anything for renaming the building.".
"It was part of our negotiations," said Willis spokesman Will Thoretz. The company said the move to the new space, at $14.50 per square foot, will result in significant real estate cost savings, and that there is no additional cost to the company associated with renaming the building.
Wacker, initially occupying more than 140,000 square feet on multiple floors. Willis will move nearly 500 associates into Willis Tower, at 233 S. Willis Group Holdings, a London-based insurance broker, announced Thursday that it will consolidate its area offices to Sears Tower and as part of the deal, gets to put its own name on the 36-year-old skyscraper. Source: Chicago Tribune ome this summer, Chicago's iconic landmark known around the world is getting a new moniker: Willis Tower.
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