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Goldblatt's was an American chain of local discount stores that operated in Chicago, Illinois, as well as Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. Founded in 1914, the chain grew to more than twenty stores at its peak, gradually closing some stores in the 1990s and selling others to Ames before finally closing completely in 2000.
Police said the victims were killed along a bike path behind a Goldblatt’s department store, and dragged behind brush near the North Branch of the Chicago River, at a popular spot for teens ...
In 1935, he married Bernice Goldblatt; they had two children, Stanford Goldblatt and Merle Goldblatt Cohen. [5] As his brother Nathan died of cancer in 1944, Maurice was a strong supporter of research to fight cancer and was seminal in establishing the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation in 1947; and donated $3.4 million facility to the University of Chicago Medical Center.
After suffering large losses, Goldblatt's sold the downtown store and the other property around Monument Circle to Melvin Simon and Associates for $2.25 million (~$7.62 million in 2023) in December 1979, [12] and started to close the Indianapolis metropolitan stores. In September 1980, Goldblatt's announced that they planned to close the ...
The A. M. Rothschild & Company Store, also known as the Goldblatt's Building, is a historic department store building located at 333 South State Street in the Loop neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The store was built in 1912 for the Rothschild & Company department store, which was founded in the late 1800s by Abram M. Rothschild .
Maurice Goldblatt, co-founder of the Goldblatt's department store [210] Sylvan Nathan Goldman, former Oklahoma-based supermarket chain owner; inventor of the shopping cart [211] Shira Goodman, president and CEO of Staples, Inc. [212] Salmon Portland Chase Halle (1866–1949), co-founder of the Halle Brothers department store [213]
A screenshot of a video posted on X shows three men dragging the suspect in a bombing at the Santa Maria Superior Courthouse outside the building on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. How many were ...
An observance is held each year to remember the victims of the bombing. An annual marathon draws thousands, and allows runners to sponsor a victim of the bombing. [255] [256] For the tenth anniversary of the bombing, the city held 24 days of activities, including a week-long series of events known as the National Week of Hope from April 17 to ...