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Since that date, the business has been known as Penneys in the Republic of Ireland and as Primark elsewhere. [4] [14] In 2005, Primark bought UK retailer Littlewoods's retail stores for £409 million, retaining 40 of the 119 shops and selling the rest. [15] In May 2006, the first Primark shop in mainland Europe opened in Madrid, Spain. In ...
School of the Art Institute of Chicago founded. Chicago City Cemetery in Lincoln Park was permanently closed, and most of the bodies were moved to other cemeteries in the city. [9] [10] 1867 Construction began on the Water Tower designed by architect W. W. Boyington. Chicago Academy of Music founded. [6] 1868 Rand McNally is formed as a railway ...
Edward and Abraham Lincoln Filene, former executives at family-founded Filene's department store [204] Felix Fuld, German-born co-founder of L. Bamberger & Company [205] Adam Gimbel, founder of the Gimbels department store [206] [191] Sonny Gindi, co-founder of the Century 21 department store [207] [208] Dave Gold, founder of 99 Cents Only ...
Perrish Grignon, who visited Chicago in about 1794, described Point du Sable as a large man and wealthy trader. [29] Point du Sable's granddaughter, Eulalie Pelletier, was born at his Chicago River settlement in 1796. [30] In 1800 Point du Sable sold his farm to John Kinzie's frontman, Jean La Lime, for 6,000 livres.
The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition (1995); essays by scholars covering important mayors before 1980; Green, Paul M., and Melvin G. Holli. Chicago, World War II (2003) excerpt and text search; short and heavily illustrated; Gustaitis, Joseph. Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis (2013) online
One of Johnson's most notable issues of Jet was the September 15, 1955 issue in which he published a picture of a Chicago–youth Emmett Till's mutilated body after it had arrived in Chicago from Mississippi. [8] People considered Johnson's decision to publish Till's photograph his greatest moment.
Roebuck co-founded Sears, Roebuck and Company with Richard Warren Sears in 1891. [1] [2]In 1895, Roebuck asked Sears to buy him out for about $20,000. At Richard Sears' request, Roebuck took charge of a division that handled watches, jewelry, optical goods, and, later, phonographs, magic lanterns and motion picture machines.
Chicago [a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, [9] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.