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J. Bacon's & Sons "Bacon's" , division of Mercantile Stores Company. All locations merged into sister division McAlpin's 1980s, select locations converted to Dillard's 1998 with Dillard purchase of Mercantile and the rest closed. [171] Ben Snyder's (Louisville), was founded in 1913 and later sold to Hess's in 1987.
Company was liquidated in 1999, though some chains it operated, including Bakers, have survived. Fashion Bug – plus-size women's clothing retailer that once spanned more than 1000 stores. Parent company Charming Shoppes, which owned other plus-size retailers including Lane Bryant, shuttered the brand in early 2013.
Pages in category "Defunct companies based in Chicago" The following 146 pages are in this category, out of 146 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
MainStreet was a department store chain based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The chain was launched in November 1983 by Federated Department Stores (now known as Macy's, Inc. ). [ 1 ] Throughout the 1980s, the chain expanded to twenty-nine stores in Illinois , Michigan , Indiana , and Minnesota .
Chas A. Stevens was a Chicago department store. It started in 1886 as a catalog business and eventually grew to 29 locations in the Chicago metropolitan area. [1] In 1988 the chain filed for bankruptcy and liquidated. Its flagship State Street store was the hub of fashion during the 1940s, 50s and 60s in Chicago. It featured six floors of ...
Simon Lazarus, founder of what was to become The F&R Lazarus & Co., which blossomed into Macy's, Inc. (formerly Federated Department Stores). Family patriarch Simon Lazarus (1808–1877) opened a one-room men's clothing store in downtown Columbus in 1851. By 1870, with improvements to the industry in the mass manufacture of men's uniforms for ...
The parent company of Burger King is buying out its biggest franchisee in the U.S. for about $1 billion and will renovate hundreds of its locations. Restaurant Brands International Inc. will ...
The Limited is an American clothing brand sold exclusively through Belk. The Limited began with operating retail stores between the early 1960s and the late 2010s. In 2017, it became a brand owned by the private equity firm Sycamore Partners. [1] [2] [3]