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The growing general retail chain Runnings expanded into central Illinois when new stores opened in Washington and Pekin. Minnesota-based department store opens 2 locations in greater Peoria area ...
Big R Stores was founded in 1964 in Watseka, Illinois as a farming supply store by Bill Crabtree and his wife, Pat Crabtree. [1] Their son-in-law, Jerry Gibbs, bought a majority share of the chain in 1976. In 2018, Gibbs sold the chain to Bill and Pat's son Joda Crabtree and business partner Matt Whebbe, who became the chief executive officer.
The first Runnings store opened on December 5, 1947 by founder Norman “Red” Running in downtown Marshall, Minnesota. [2] The company was bought Dennis and Adele Reed in 1988. [2] Runnings acquired R. P. Home & Harvest in April of 2023. [3] [4] Runnings acquired North Dakota based Home Of Economy in May of 2024 and gained eight stores
Their first store was located on the second floor of a fixer-upper Victorian house in Sacramento, California. [3] [4] In 1978, Fleet Feet's second location opened in the town of Chico, 90 miles north of Sacramento. [4] Rather than becoming a multi-store business, Edwards and Jansen decided to build Fleet Feet as a franchise operation with local ...
The Illinois Department of Corrections Pontiac Correctional Center is located in Pontiac. [40] Pontiac housed the male death row until 2003. Prior to the January 11, 2003 commutation of all death row sentences, male death row inmates were housed in Pontiac, Menard , and Tamms correctional centers. [ 41 ]
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
Pontiac Township is located in Livingston County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 13,049 and it contained 5,179 housing units. As of the 2010 census, its population was 13,049 and it contained 5,179 housing units.
Livingston County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 35,815. [1] Its county seat is Pontiac. [2] Livingston County comprises the Pontiac, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is combined with the Bloomington–Normal metropolitan statistical area as the Bloomington-Pontiac, IL Combined Statistical Area in upper portion of ...