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Loop Retail Historic District. / 41.883°N 87.633°W / 41.883; -87.633. Loop Retail Historic District is a shopping district within the Chicago Loop community area in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is bounded by Lake Street to the north, Ida B. Wells Drive to the south, State Street to the west and Wabash Avenue to the east.
Halle Bros. Marshall Field & Company (commonly known as Marshall Field's) was an upscale department store in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in the 19th century, it grew to become a large chain before Macy's, Inc, acquired it in 2005. Its founder, Marshall Field, was a pioneering retail magnate.
Burdines ( English: / bɜːrˈdaɪnz / bur-DYNZE) was an American chain of department stores operating in the state of Florida, headquartered in Miami. The original store opened in Bartow, Florida in 1896 [ 1] as a carriage-trade shop. Over its nearly 110-year history, Burdines grew into a popular chain of department stores, known as 'The ...
The shuttered Sears Auto Center at night after the main store at 3655 SW 22nd Ave. in Miami closed for the day on Aug. 5, 2024. The Auto Center attached to the last remaining Sears in South ...
For more than a century, Chicago was the premier destination for national political conventions. From 1860 to 1968, the city hosted 24 Democratic and Republican party conventions, far more than ...
'Power to communities': Chicago considers city-owned grocery store to address 'food deserts' after giants like Walmart and Whole Foods shutter stores Bethan Moorcraft September 19, 2023 at 4:00 PM
The Wigwam - 1860 Republican National Convention. The Wigwam was a convention center and meeting hall that served as the site of the 1860 Republican National Convention. [1] It was located in Chicago, Illinois, at Lake Street and Market (later Wacker Drive) near the Chicago River, on property owned by Garrett Theological Seminary. [2]
Wood-frame "Wigwam" building specially designed for the 1860 Republican Convention in Chicago. By 1860 the dissolution of the Whig Party in America had become an accomplished fact, with establishment Whig politicians, former Free Soilers, and a certain number of anti-Catholic populists from the Know Nothing movement flocking to the banner of the fledgling anti-slavery Republican Party.