The Ledge is a series of glass bays that extend just more than 4 feet outward from the Sears Tower and let you look 1,353 feet straight down over the city. Here's a picture.
I've always had a slight fear of heights but I just had to put my fears aside and take advantage of this. It was truly a rush taking that first step over the side of the building and onto the glass platform. A journalist in the Tribune captured the emotion perfectly, "being suspended a quarter of a mile in the air with nothing more than three layers of half-inch-thick glass standing between you and a date with your funeral director." Pretty crazy, huh!
Here I am, trying not to freak out!
