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Old Orchard Mall
Westfield Old Orchard, formerly Old Orchard Shopping Center, is a shopping center in the Chicago metropolitan area. It is located in Skokie, Illinois. The shopping center features the traditional retailers Macy's and Nordstrom, in addition to a CMX luxury cinema. The mall features prominent specialty retailers such as Vineyard Vines, Madewell, Anthropologie, Fabletics, Kendra Scott, Tory Burch, and Warby Parker. History The huge Marshall Field & Company anchor store was the first portion of the mall to open, on October 22, 1956. The Old Orchard Shopping Center itself opened on October 25, 1956, while a second anchor department store, The Fair, opened on November 1, 1956. A third anchor store, Saks Fifth Avenue, opened on November 6, 1958. The Fair was renamed Montgomery Ward in 1964. Two parking structures, the North and West Garages, were built in 1978. Saks Fifth Avenue moved to a larger location in 1978, selling their previous store to Lord & Taylor. Since many prospecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skokie, Illinois
Skokie (; formerly Niles Center) is a Village (United States), village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. According to the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 67,824. Skokie lies approximately north of Chicago's downtown Loop. The name Skokie comes from a Potawatomi language, Potawatomi word for 'marsh'. For many years, Skokie promoted itself as "The World's Largest Village". Skokie's streets, like that of many suburbs, are largely a continuation of the Roads and expressways in Chicago, Chicago street grid, and the village is served by the Chicago Transit Authority, further cementing its connection to the city. Skokie was originally a Germans, German-Luxembourger farming community, but was later settled by a sizeable Jews, Jewish population, especially after World War II. At its peak in the mid-1960s, 58% of the population was Jews, Jewish, the largest proportion of any Chicago suburb. Skokie still has many Jewish residents (now about 30% of the pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tory Burch LLC
Tory Burch LLC is a luxury women's fashion label based in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. It was founded by American designer Tory Burch in 2004. , Pierre-Yves Roussel is the CEO of the company. History Tory Burch began her fashion label – "Tory by TRB", later known as "Tory Burch" – in February 2004, launching it with a retail store in Manhattan's Nolita district.Agins, Teri. "How Tory Burch Found Her Stride". ''Wall Street Journal''. February 1, 2008. Most of the inventory sold out on the first day. When Oprah Winfrey endorsed her line on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'' in April 2005, calling Burch "the next big thing in fashion", Burch's website received eight million hits the following day. Since launch, the company has grown to include more than 370 Tory Burch stores worldwide, including flagships in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, and Seoul, and ecommerce sites in seven languages. The company’s Shanghai flagship, which launched in 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Inc
Ann Inc. is an American group of specialty apparel retail chain stores for women. The company is headquartered in New York City and currently operates as a subsidiary of Ascena Retail Group. The stores offer classic-styled suits, separates, dresses, shoes and accessories. The brand is marketed under five divisions: Ann Taylor, Loft, Lou & Grey, Ann Taylor Factory, and Loft Outlet. History Richard Liebeskind, the founder of Ann Taylor, opened his first Ann Taylor store in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1954. "Ann Taylor" was the name of a best-selling dress at Liebeskind's father's store. Both the best-selling dress and the name ''Ann Taylor'' were given by the father to his son, Richard Liebeskind, for good luck. Liebeskind decided to go with the name Ann Taylor because ''Ann'' was considered a very New England name, and ''Taylor'' evoked the image of tailored clothing. The name supposedly created the ideal identity of classic women's apparel. In May 1991, the company completed an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abercrombie & Fitch
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (A&F) is an American lifestyle store, lifestyle retailer, founded in 1892 which focuses on contemporary clothing targeting customers in their early 20's to mid 40's. Headquartered in New Albany, Ohio, the company operates four offshoot brands: Abercrombie Kids, Your Personal Best, Hollister Co., and Gilly Hicks with 780+ company operated stores across its brands, as of Q4 2024. As one of the oldest American clothing brands, the company originally marketed high-end outdoor clothing but by the early 1980s it had almost entirely changed its direction. In the 1990s, under the leadership of CEO Mike Jeffries (CEO), Mike Jeffries, Abercrombie & Fitch underwent a meteoric rise, focusing on “casual luxury” fashion and specifically "the good-looking, cool kids" — using sophisticated sexualized advertising, prominently of fashion models in revealing outfits. The company has since refocused itself successfully, targeting a more diverse range of customer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States. The company operates approximately 600 retail stores across the United States. Barnes & Noble operates mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores. The company's headquarters are at 33 E. 17th Street on Union Square in New York City. After a series of mergers and bankruptcies in the American bookstore industry since the 1990s, Barnes & Noble is the United States' largest bookstore chain and the only national chain. Previously, Barnes & Noble operated the chain of small B. Dalton Bookseller stores in malls until they announced the liquidation of the chain in 2010. The company was also one of the nation's largest manager of college textbook stores located on or near many college campuses when that division was spun off as a separate public company called Barnes & Noble Education in 2015. The company is known by its customers for large r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggiano's Little Italy
Maggiano's Little Italy () is an American casual dining restaurant chain specializing in Italian-American cuisine. The company was founded in Chicago's River North neighborhood, at Clark Street and Grand Avenue, in 1991 by Rich Melman's Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises (LEYE). The concept was acquired by Brinker International, Inc. in August 1995 from LEYE. As of March 22, 2021, there were 54 locations throughout 22 states and the District of Columbia. In February 2017, they introduced a seven-day-a-week brunch menu. History Richard Melman expanded LEYE's Italian division in 1991 by opening Maggiano's Little Italy in Chicago. According to the company's history, the concept aimed at "re-creating the classic pre-World War II dinner house featuring family size portions". Melman named the restaurant after, Marvin Magid, his business partner who was killed in a helicopter crash in 1987. The first restaurant opened on November 11, 1991, in Chicago at the corner of Clark Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1847, it was formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", a slogan from which its once integrated WGN (AM), WGN radio and WGN-TV, WGN television received their call letters. It is the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region, and the List of newspapers in the United States, sixth-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the ''Chicago Tribune'' became closely associated with the Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln, and the then new Republican Party (United States), Republican Party's progressive wing. In the 20th century, under Medill's grandson 'Colonel' Robert R. McCormick, its reputation was that of a crusading newspaper with an outlook that promoted Conservatism in the United States, American conservatism and opposed the New Deal. Its reporting and commenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloomingdale's
Bloomingdale's Inc. is an American luxury department store chain founded in 1861 by Joseph Bloomingdale and Lyman Bloomingdale. It was acquired by Federated Department Stores in 1930, which purchased the Macy's department store chain in 1994, when they became sister brands. Ultimately, Federated itself was renamed Macy's, Inc. in 2007. As of 2024, the chain had a total of 32 owned department stores in the U.S. and 3 franchised stores in Dubai and Kuwait; 21 outlet stores (all in the U.S.), and 4 ''Bloomie's by Bloomingdales'' concept stores. Its headquarters and flagship store are located at 59th Street and Lexington Avenue in the New York City borough of Manhattan. History 19th century Founding (1861) The first Bloomingdale's was founded in New York City by Benjamin Bloomingdale and his son Lyman Bloomingdale in 1861 in its Lower East Side area, originally under the name Bloomingdale's Hoopskirts, initially focused on selling hoop skirts and European fashions. The broth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord & Taylor
Lord & Taylor was an American department store chain founded in 1826 by Samuel Lord. It had 86 full-line stores in the Northeastern United States at its peak in the 2000s, and 38 locations at the time of its liquidation in 2021. The Lord & Taylor Building flagship store in Midtown Manhattan operated from 1914 until 2019, and was designated a New York City Landmark in 2007. The chain was owned by many companies in its existence, including Associated Dry Goods from 1916–1986, The May Department Stores Company from 1986–2005, Federated Department Stores from 2005–2006, NRDC Equity Partners from 2006–2008, Hudson's Bay Company from 2008–2019, and Le Tote from 2019–2021. The intellectual property was sold to the Saadia Group, which attempted to relaunch the brand as a web store. Saadia went into default in March 2024, and the intellectual property was acquired by Regal Brands Global that September. History Under the Lord family, 1826–1916 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward is the name of two successive U.S. retail corporations. The original Montgomery Ward & Co. was a mail-order business and later a department store chain that operated between 1872 and 2001; its common nickname was "Monkey Wards". The current Montgomery Ward Inc. is an online shopping and mail-order catalog retailer that started several years after the original Montgomery Ward shut down. Original Montgomery Ward (1872–2001) Company origins Aaron Montgomery Ward started his business in Chicago; conflicting reports place his first office either in a single room at 825 North Clark Street or in a loft above a livery stable on Kinzie Street, between Rush and State Streets. In 1883, the company's catalog had grown to 240 pages and 10,000 items. In 1896, Ward encountered its first serious competition in the mail order business, when Richard Warren Sears introduced his first general catalog. In 1900, Ward had total sales of $8.7 million, compared to $10 million for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saks Fifth Avenue
Saks Fifth Avenue (Colloquialism, colloquially Saks) is an American Luxury goods, luxury department store chain founded in 1867 by Andrew Saks. The first store opened in the F Street and 7th Street shopping districts, F Street shopping district of Washington, D.C., and expanded into Manhattan with its Herald Square store in 1902. Saks was bought by the Gimbels department store chain in 1923 and expanded nationwide during this ownership, and opened its Saks Fifth Avenue flagship store, flagship store on Fifth Avenue in 1924. Gimbels and Saks were acquired by Brown & Williamson in 1973, and transferred to sister company Batus Inc. in 1980. While Gimbels was liquidated in 1987, Saks was sold to Investcorp in 1990. Saks Off 5th was established as a Saks clearance store the same year, and has since evolved into an Off-price retailer, off-price store chain. Saks was acquired by Proffitt's, Inc. (renamed Saks, Inc.) in 1998. Saks, Inc. was acquired by the Hudson's Bay Company in 2013. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
