Editing Willis Tower (section)

==== Elevators and escalators ====
The Sears Tower was planned with 103 elevators,<ref name="p511514170" /><ref name="p170442312" /> including 14 [[double-deck elevator]]s.<ref name="p511514170" /><ref name="p169950437">{{Cite news |date=October 11, 1970 |title=Sears Tower: What the Pedestrian Will See |page=C1 |work=Chicago Tribune |id={{proQuest|169950437}}}}</ref> The office stories are served by 97 elevator cabs; due to the presence of the double-deck elevators, these occupy 83 shafts.<ref name="Ori Brinson 2018" /> As designed, one bank of single-deck elevators connected the lobby to the lowest 28 stories.<ref name="p169950437" /> Banks of double-deck elevators traveled to "sky lobbies" at the 33rd/34th and 66th/67th floors, where passengers could transfer to local elevators. The 34th through 103rd stories were served by local elevators that operated from the sky lobbies.<ref name="p511514170" /><ref name="p169950437" /> Two elevators also ran directly from the lobby to the Skydeck on the 103rd floor.<ref name="n109146093">{{Cite news |last=Nagelberg |first=Alvin |date=April 11, 1971 |title=Glass Elevators Give Hotel Lift |pages=49 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109146093/glass-elevators-give-hotel-liftalvin/ |access-date=September 7, 2022}}</ref> {{As of|2018}}, the elevators carried 5.8 million passengers per year.<ref name="Koziarz 20182" /><ref name="Ori Brinson 2018" />

Six of the elevators are used for freight.<ref name="p170442312" /> One of the freight elevators served all stories, traveling to a height of {{convert|1440|ft}}.<ref name="n109146093" /> During a fire or another emergency, this elevator would be reserved for the [[Chicago Fire Department]]. Other elevators would be controlled from the 33rd floor. During a fire, elevators would be dispatched to the affected floors to assist with evacuation.<ref name="p511514170" />

The building also had 16 escalators, including a set of double-height escalators that traveled from the main lobby to the lower mezzanine.<ref name="p169950437" /> Another set of escalators connects the 33rd and 34th stories.<ref name="p170442312" />