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The mall housed numerous niche stores, eateries, and other retailers throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In November 1970 the Cinemagic movie theater opened in the mall. Grant City became Kmart in 1976, while Wilmington Dry Goods became Value City. Value City closed in 2008 due to the chains bankruptcy and became Burlington Coat Factory. [3]
Root Dry Goods Co. (Terre Haute) First opened in 1856 and operated until 1998 when it was sold to May Department Stores and converted to L.S. Ayres stores. Was owned by Mercantile Stores from 1914 to 1998. [160] [161] [162] L. Strauss & Co. (Indianapolis) Schultz's Family Stores (statewide and Illinois) H. P. Wasson and Company (Indianapolis)
The chain began in 1854 when Samuel Carson and John Thomas Pirie first clerked in the Murray's dry goods store in Peru, Illinois, then opened their own store in LaSalle, followed by one in Amboy. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed 60% of the store's stock. [citation needed]
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Wilmington is a city in Will County, Illinois, United States. Located on Illinois Route 53 and Historic U.S. Route 66 along the east bank of the Kankakee River , it is approximately 60 miles (97 km) south-west from downtown Chicago .
At its peak, the H. C. Prange Co. had 25 stores, 18 in Wisconsin, five in Michigan, and two in Illinois, with a total of about 2,100,000 square feet (200,000 m 2) of retail space. [2] In 1991, Prange's department store unit had sales of about $229 million (~$457 million in 2023). The company's largest store was in Green Bay's Port Plaza Mall.
Interstate Department Stores, Inc., was an American holding company for a chain of small department stores, founded in Delaware in 1928. [1] After a very rapid expansion as the result of acquisition and expansion of two discount store chains acquired in 1959 [2] and 1960 [3] and also two toy store chains acquired in 1967 and 1969, the firm was renamed in 1970 as Interstate Stores, Inc., to ...
The building was likely used first to house goods for the mills in the region and may have served as a trading post. [1] Henry Brown, who owned the town's general store, build the two-story hotel across the street from the store on Water Street. The hotel is of no particular style, but is most strongly influenced by the Greek Revival movement ...