CHAMPAIGN – Operating a tower crane isn't for everyone – especially if you're acrophobic, claustrophobic or clumsy. Your whole day is spent in a compact "cabin" about 200 feet in the air. Part of the ...

There’s only a couple of workers among the several dozen on the 2200 Westlake construction site, near Westlake Avenue and Denny Way, who can get away with not wearing a hard hat. One of them is Willie ...

Without tower cranes, it's likely that many iconic buildings and structures we know and love would not be standing. Not only do these steel giants look striking, they are also integral to modern ...

Raymond "Paul" Lacrouts' workday begins with a cup of coffee from 7-Eleven and a brief chat with co-workers. The Lehigh Acres resident then grabs his lunchbox and heads up to his office. Way up. As a ...

An RMS Cranes tower located at 21st and California in downtown Denver. It is operated by Aaron Genova. The highest-profile job in Denver these days might just be operating one of the many tower cranes ...

Welp. I know what job I can never do. And that’s be a tower crane operator. To even start operating a crane, the guy has to make the scariest climb up the entire thing while carefully switching ...

Without tower cranes, it’s likely that many iconic buildings and structures we know and love would not be standing. Not only do these steel giants look striking, they are also integral to modern ...

This afternoon, Mayor Rahm Emanuel met with Alderman Brendan Reilly and representatives of the developer Related Midwest to kick off the vertical construction of the new One Bennett Park high-rise ...

Mike Freeman’s office is a snap to find, but the commute is a nightmare. He’s a tower crane operator on the Trump Tower site, one of the highest-profile construction projects in the country right now.