The Village of Niles, Illinois began demolishing the Leaning Tower YMCA building Monday. The Y building is composed of a nine ...

NILES, Ill. (WLS) -- The Village of Niles is set to demolish the former Leaning Tower YMCA residential building on Monday.

The demolition will make way for a new, mixed use shopping and entertainment district in suburban Niles, anchored by the ...

The Leaning Tower of Pisa and its 5.5-degree lean has ... The tower in northwestern Italy has managed to survive two world wars, millions of tourist visits and at least four strong earthquakes ...

By 1272, the tower began leaning toward the south ... In 1934, engineers working for Italian leader Benito Mussolini, who considered the flawed tower antithetical to Fascist ideals, tried to ...

This architectural curiosity is a precise half-scale version of Italy's famous Pisa tower, rising 94 feet tall with a 28-foot diameter and leaning a significant 7.4 feet, according to the town's ...

Galileo put his theories of physics to the test with the incredible Leaning Tower of Pisa. Well, today is National Physics ...

When it comes to leaning towers, Italy’s Tower of Pisa immediately comes to mind for many. Beyond this famous tilting icon, the world is full of peculiar structures like it – from church ...

With the tower continuing to tilt naturally at the rate of a little over five arc seconds per year, the Italian government closes the Leaning Tower of Pisa, sparking outrage by Pisan officials ...

When we talk about buildings that tilt captivatingly, you might immediately think of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy. But there are lots of buildings that slope, some quite alarmingly ...

Oh, the Leaning Tower of Pisa — so touristy and yet so fun. Each day, hordes of visitors come to the small northwestern Tuscan town of Pisa to take pictures "propping up" its tower. Some do it ...