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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 ...
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In April 2014, some of the principals bid on the inventory, store leases and other assets. [14] On May 2, C&A Marketing acquired most of the assets and announced plans to reopen both calumetphoto.com and the equipment rental business. [15] [16] Less than one week later, the C&A announced that it would reopen the Oak Brook, Illinois, location on ...
The origins of the business lie with Mortimer Birdsul Mills, who was born in 1845 in Canada West (today's Ontario, Canada) [3] but who later became a citizen of the United States, resident in Chicago, Illinois. Mortimer Mills would have 13 children. [4] One son, Herbert Stephen Mills, was born in 1872 when his father was about 27. [3]
Though little remembered today, the wholesale division sold merchandise in bulk to smaller merchants throughout the central and western United States and at that time did six times the sales volume of the local retail store. Chicago's location at the nexus of the country's railroads and Great Lakes shipping made it the center of the dry goods ...
Eleanor Roosevelt at the dedication of South Side Community Art Center (May 7, 1941). Efforts to open a community art center on Chicago's South Side began in 1938. Peter Pollack, a Federal Art Project official, contacted Metz Lochard, an editor at the Chicago Defender, about having the Art Project sponsor exhibitions of African American artists, who often had trouble securing space to display ...
In 1944, they began to develop a retail network primarily in the Midwest (which eventually expanded to 16 stores by 1959). [ 2 ] In 1947, the company was the fourth-largest mail-order distributor in the United States with $79.2 million in sales and changed its name to Aldens, Inc. [ 2 ] In 1957, sales were $102.4 million, they had 4,795 ...