Sears’ Legacy Will Endure

For more than century, Sears has been a business icon and the place where America shopped, evolving from a mail order catalog to a department store chain anchoring malls across the country.Now facing the possibility of liquidation — a bankruptcy judge is expected to decide the retailer’s fate in the coming weeks after Chairman Edward Lampert raised his bid to keep the company in business — Sears may soon be relegated to the history books.Whether Sears survives, the company’s legacy is set to live on in buildings, businesses and brands that may long outlast the stores themselves.Willis (formerly Sears) TowerThere is no greater monument to the scale of Sears at its height than the 1,451-foot, 110-story tower it erected in Chicago.