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Chicagoans didn't like it when the Sears Tower changed its name to Willis Tower.They protested in the street when Marshall Field's became Macy's.So it is natural that, love him or hate him, or both, or neither, Mayor Richard M. Daley's surprise announcement Tuesday that he will not seek re-election has to come, if not quite as a death in the family, then as a loss, the pending departure of ...

Photo: AP According to his website , the man who scaled the Millennium Tower yesterday using suction cups, Dan Goodwin a.k.a. Skyscraper Man, is a fire-safety advocate and apparent anti-high-rise activist with a thing for shiny glass-walled buildings. Previously, in the early 80s, Dan gained notoriety for scaling the Sears Tower in Chicago, the John Hancock tower in Boston, and L.A.'s ...

Dan Goodwin, aka Spider Dan, makes his way to the top of the Millennium Tower on Mission Street on Monday Sept. 6, 2010 in San Francisco. Goodwin used suction cups but no ropes to scale the 645-foot residential building overlooking San Francisco Bay. Police say he ignored orders to stop climbing.

Each week a floor is added to 1 World Trade Center, the scheduled 1,776-foot-high structure rising on the site of the former Twin Towers in Lower Manhattan. This week, on the eve of the anniversary of the country’s most horrific domestic tragedy, 9/11, dozens of construction workers are welding massive beams of steel to create the 39th floor of what will ultimately be a gleaming glass obelisk, a ...

A man who used suction cups to scale a luxury residential tower in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood on Monday afternoon said Tuesday that he was happy with what the climb accomplished despite police claims the stunt unnecessarily pulled resources away from other parts of the city.

Chicago, Illinois, is "stunningly amazing five months out of the year" and feels like a bona fide city to CNN political analyst Roland Martin.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – San Francisco police have arrested a man who scaled the exterior of a 58-story downtown skyscraper and unfurled an American flag at the top. Police tell KCBS Radio that the man is veteran skyscraper climber Dan Goodwin. The 54-year-old Lake Tahoe resident’s other climbing credits include Chicago’s Sears Tower. Goodwin used suction cups but no ropes to scale Millennium Tower ...

San Francisco police arrested a man who scaled the exterior of a 58-story downtown skyscraper Monday and unfurled an American flag at the top.

San Francisco Fire Department officials help Dan Goodwin, aka Spider Dan, as he hangs an American flag at the top of the Millennium Tower on Mission Street on Monday Sept. 6, 2010 in San Francisco.

A climber known as "Skyscraperman" used suction cups to scale a luxury residential tower in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood this afternoon. The man, believed to be Dan Goodwin, 54, started making his way up the side of the Millennium Tower at about 2:15 p.m. Roughly three hours later, he reached a...