At the unholy hour of 5 a.m., when anybody with any say in the matter is sound asleep, Sears Tower is waking up. That`s when the various managers arrive to crank up what is one of the largest food-… ...

There's so much pride with Sears, now Willis Tower. It's ours. Chicago can claim that," Stancik said. ... There was a cake, but it was more than 1,300 feet above Chicago.

About the time Sears, Roebuck and Company was founded in 1886, applesauce cake was a favorite dish of European immigrants who settled in Minnesota, the state where Richard W. Sears started the firm ...