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In 1920 Louis Darvin began selling furniture door-to-door in Chicago. [1] In 1939, Louis and son, David, opened the first Darvin Furniture store in the West Pullman neighborhood of Chicago with 5,000 square feet (465 m 2) and moved to a 25,000-square-foot (2,323 m 2) location in Pullman in 1948 before settling into a 50,000-square-foot (4,645 m 2) showroom in Chicago's Southside. [5]
In 1908, the company opened a 1.25-million-square-foot (116,000 m 2) building stretching along nearly one-quarter mile of the Chicago River, north of downtown Chicago. The building, known as the Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalog House , served as the company headquarters until 1974, when the offices moved across the street to a new tower designed ...
The Catalog House was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 17, 2000. [ 7 ] In later years, Montgomery Ward and Company added several warehouses and parking structures, followed by a 26-story office building in 1972, designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki , who also designed the former World Trade Center towers in New York City .
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Tape World – a store concept created by Trans World Entertainment in 1979 but later replaced by its f.y.e. store concept [155] Tower Records – founded in 1960 in Sacramento, California ; all retail stores were liquidated in 2006 [ 156 ] and the name was purchased for use as an online-only retailer
Fashion Outlets of Chicago, an enclosed 130-store outlet mall located at River Road and Balmoral Avenue, on the east side of Interstate 294, just south of Interstate 90 and Interstate 190, in Rosemont; Algonquin Commons and the Algonquin Galleria, the largest outdoor mall complex in Illinois.