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March 6, 2013. The Storkline Furniture Corporation Factory was a historic factory building at 4400-4418 W. 26th Street in the South Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The Storkline Furniture Corporation, a nationally popular children's furniture company, produced all of its furniture at the factory. Founded in 1915 as the Glass Novelty ...
Just for Feet – bankrupt in 1999, acquired by Footstar, final stores closed in 2004. MC Sports – filed for bankruptcy and closed in 2017. Modell's Sporting Goods – first store opened in 1889. On March 11, 2020, the company filed for bankruptcy, and announced it would close all 115 stores.
The Ford & Johnson Company was a chair manufacturing company founded by John Sherlock Ford and Henry W. Johnson in Columbus, Ohio in 1867. [1] In 1868 the company relocated their factory to Michigan City, Indiana. [2] In 1872 the company moved their headquarters to Chicago where they opened a showroom at 302 Wabash Avenue.
Department stores merged with Federated and May 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 18, 2015. The Peck and Hills Furniture Company Warehouse is a historic warehouse located at 909 West Bliss Street on Goose Island in Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1901, the warehouse was the main storage and distribution facility for the Peck and Hills Furniture Company. Founded in 1896, the company became the largest furniture distributor in ...
S&H Green Stamps. S&H Green Stamps. S&H Green Stamps was a line of trading stamps popular in the United States from 1896 until the late 1980s. They were distributed as part of a rewards program operated by the Sperry & Hutchinson company (S&H), founded in 1896 by Thomas Sperry and Shelley Byron Hutchinson. During the 1960s, the company issued ...
Johnson Chair Company. The Johnson Chair Company was an American chair manufacturing company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded by Norwegian immigrant Andrew P. Johnson, along with partners Frederick Herhold, Anton Borgmeier, and Adolph Borgmeier, with the firm's original name being Herhold, Johnson & Borgmeier.
Little Italy, Chicago. Coordinates: 41.871°N 87.659°W. Little Italy, sometimes combined with University Village into one neighborhood, is on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The current boundaries of Little Italy are Ashland Avenue on the west and Interstate 90/94 on the east, the Eisenhower Expressway on the north and Roosevelt to ...