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2. Polk Brothers - Wikipedia

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   A fire during the evening of June 1, 1987 that gutted the company's warehouse and adjacent headquarters at 8311 W. North Avenue in Melrose Park put the company in financial straits, and the death a year later of 71-year-old CEO Sol Polk sent it spiraling downward.

3. List of defunct department stores of the United States

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   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 ...

4. North Avenue (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   North Avenue is a major east–west street in Chicago, Illinois, and its western suburbs. Starting at St. Charles 's eastern border with West Chicago, its name changes from Main Street to North Avenue, just east of the Kane / DuPage county line. From there, it travels straight east, carrying Illinois Route 64 until LaSalle Drive in Chicago.

5. Melrose Park, Illinois - Wikipedia

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   Melrose Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.It is a suburb of Chicago.As of the 2020 census it had a population of 24,796. [2]The suburb was the home of Kiddieland Amusement Park from 1929 until 2010 (it closed in September 2009 before it was demolished in 2010 and the sign of Kiddieland was relocated to the Melrose Park Public Library; a Costco warehouse store now stands ...

6. Kiddieland Amusement Park - Wikipedia

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   Kiddieland Amusement Park (stylized as " KiDDieLAND ") was an amusement park located at the corner of North Avenue and First Avenue in Melrose Park, Illinois. It was home to several classic rides including the Little Dipper roller coaster, which opened in 1950. The park closed on September 27, 2009, and was demolished in 2010 to make way for a ...

7. History of Walmart - Wikipedia

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   The history of Walmart, an American discount department store chain, began in 1950 when businessman Sam Walton purchased a store from Luther E. Harrison in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and opened Walton's 5 & 10. [1] The Walmart chain proper was founded in 1962 with a single store in Rogers, expanding inside Oklahoma by 1968 and throughout the rest ...

8. Omni Superstore - Wikipedia

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   Melrose Park, Illinois - 8315 W. North Avenue (opening date not available, renovated 1997, closed 1999, building now houses Lincoln College of Technology) Aurora, Illinois - Illinois Route 59 and 75th Street (opening date late 1988, renovated 1997, closed 1999, became split tenants, Bob's Discount Furniture and Hobby Lobby)

9. Meijer - Wikipedia

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   The Niles store closed on June 18, 2016. The Melrose Park and Berwyn stores closed on June 17, 2017 (the Berwyn store space now houses Tony's Fresh Market, which had relocated from its previous location at the former Dominick's store in North Riverside in 2018), leaving the Orland Park store as the last remaining small-format Meijer in ...