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United Is Moving On Up, To Chicago's Willis Tower

Someday, we might have a "United Tower" after all! After the whole fiasco earlier this summer of a London insurance firm buying the naming rights to Chicago's world famous Sears Tower and turning it into "Willis Tower," a move that was super negative in terms of public opinion, news surrounding the tower just got more positive thanks to an announcement from United Airlines.

As was rumored last month, the airline had been looking at the massive amount of empty office space in the building as a potential new headquarters for its operations department. After deliberations, United has decided to go with Willis for their new offices, they announced recently. They'll begin moving over 2,800 employees from the suburb of Elk Grove into their fresh 400,000 square feet at the Willis, and we think they should have gotten the naming right in the deal since they beat Willis' office space by 260,000 square feet.

In any case, United still has their name on the good old United Center, Chicago's multi-purpose arena that serves as home to basketball's Chicago Bulls and where we once ate stadium pretzels and slurpees through an Andrea Bocelli concert.

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