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Much of the People’s Store’s traditional consumer base moved to the south and southwest suburbs during this time. In 1975, Gatelys opened a second, smaller store in southwest suburban Tinley Park, Illinois. The Michigan Avenue store closed in 1981, while the Tinley Park location lasted until 1994. [1]
A second store would open up over three decades later in 1985 between 79th Street and Cicero Avenue in Chicago, followed by several other new stores by 1990, in Hoffman Estates, Homewood, and Vernon Hills. A distribution center later opened up in Hillside by 1988. [2] In the early 2000s, Harlem Furniture would change its name to The RoomPlace.
There are 76 sites in the National Register of Historic Places listings in West Side, Chicago, out of more than 350 listings in the City of Chicago. The West Side is defined for this article as the area north of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal , south of Fullerton Avenue, west of the Chicago River and east of the western city limits.
Throughout this decade, many white Chicagoans moved to the suburbs in a planned move by investors who, through scare tactics and instigating racial antagonism, encouraged white Chicagoans to sell their city homes and buy homes the investors built in the suburbs. [37] By 1960, Chicago recorded its first ever population drop.
As a people, we are tethered together by shared human experiences. Taxes, giggling over cute cat videos, and begrudgingly trying to find a gift for the person in your life who is nearly impossible ...
When you reach out to a Chicago branch of We Buy Houses, a rep will evaluate your home in-person, and soon afterward you’ll get a cash offer, usually within 24 to 48 hours. If you accept, the ...
Apparel, fabrics, furniture, sewing machines, baby buggies, toys and games for adults, inexpensive household items The Fair was a discount department store founded in 1874 in Chicago, Illinois . [ 1 ]
David Hrobowski makes those of us who have a hard time assembling Ikea furniture look silly. The 56-year-old Los Angeles-based artist spends his days making one-of-a-kind chairs, tables, lamps and ...