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For twenty-five years, the Sears Tower stood as the tallest building on Earth—a monument to a mail-order catalog company that convinced America happiness could be delivered to your door. Today the tower still stands, but the name has been erased, sold to a corporation that wanted the altitude without the history.

This is the story of how Sears, Roebuck and Company built an empire that defined American consumer life for over a century, employed hundreds of thousands, and shaped the dreams of millions—only to collapse into bankruptcy, liquidation, and silence.

From the rural farmhouses that received the wishbook catalog to the corporate boardrooms 110 stories above Chicago, this documentary explores the full life cycle of an American power center: the ambition that built it, the illusion of permanence at its peak, and the inevitable decline that reduced a titan to a ghost.

The tower endures. The empire is gone. And the question remains: how does something that seemed eternal simply vanish?