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2. Market Square (Lake Forest, Illinois) - Wikipedia

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   Market Square is a 103,000-square-foot (9,600 m 2) [1] neighborhood shopping center [2] in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States, in the Chicago metropolitan area. Opened in 1916, it is often cited as the first planned shopping center in the United States, with common design and management and designated area for parking automobiles. [3] [4]

3. Aldens (department store) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Merchandise Mart - Wikipedia

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   The Merchandise Mart (or the Merch Mart, or the Mart) is a commercial building in downtown Chicago, Illinois.When it opened in 1930, it was the world's largest building, with 4 million square feet (372,000 m 2) of floor space.

5. Sullivan Center - Wikipedia

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   The Sullivan Center, formerly known as the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building or Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Store, [4] is a commercial building at 1 South State Street at the corner of East Madison Street in Chicago, Illinois.

6. Menards - Wikipedia

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   The company expanded into Nebraska in 1990, Illinois in 1991 and Indiana and Michigan in 1992. [5] Menards sold the Menard Building Division in 1994, racking up 36 years in the pole building industry. Menards of East Madison, Wisconsin, pictured in 2012 (closed and relocated to Sun Prairie in 2018) [6] Menards was founded as Menard Cashway ...

7. Wieboldt's - Wikipedia

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   Randhurst Village in Mt. Prospect, Illinois - closed Dec. 1987, 209,000 sq ft (19,400 m 2), became Bergner's [4] Harlem Irving Plaza in Norridge, 3 floors; Other stores: [5] [6] Chicago Ashland Avenue and Madison Street, Chicago; 1279 Milwaukee Avenue near Paulina Street, Wicker Park, Chicago; 63rd Street and Halsted Street; Evanston, Illinois ...

8. Johnson Chair Company - Wikipedia

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   1879: The original wooden factory was torn down and replaced with a five-story brick building with 27,000 square feet of floor space. 1883: The firm was incorporated in Illinois as the Johnson chair company, with A.P. Johnson, president; Nels Johnson, secretary; and Adolph Borgmeier, treasurer. An additional five-story building was constructed ...

9. List of windmills in Illinois - Wikipedia

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   Chicago Smock: 1893 Exhibited with an Aermotor windpump erected on top [11] Old Dutch Mill, Century of Progress Exhibition: Chicago Tower: 1933 [12] 1934 [12] Mates Mill, Haymarket Chicago Moved at unknown date to Milwaukee Avenue. [13] Gray Mill, Milwaukee Ave Chicago Demolished 1910. [13] Vanden Berg Mill [14] Chicago McKay Mill Chicago 1851 ...